The Front Porch Swing

[TexasLisa]

That kind of organization and control is tempting and seductive...I LOVE order...it makes my soul happy to see neatly folded linens on a shelf and a place for everything, everything in its place. I could very well have given in to my love of control and my type A personality...love folding clothing to military precision, towels all have an "e" fold, etc. Then I had kids and they saved me from indulging in that fantasy life of order and control, thank God!

I still dream of order and even try to keep order in some places in my home(towels, washclothes, etc.), but now I will deliberately create disorder and uneven lines just so I won't fall for the seduction of order in my life. It's a habit much like anything else and can take over one's life and cripple them, much like any other addiction. Neatness is enough, order can become an obsession.

Nursing seems to attract those kind of people, though I know not why, as there is nothing orderly about the typical nursing day, and they can never really function properly as a nurse because they are so obsessed with just trying to control all the little, inconsequential things. They usually make those people into supervisors so they can't kill a patient...they make horrible supervisors also but at least they can't kill someone in that position.

Order is for engineers, not nurses...nurses have to adapt second by second without even a noticeable change in gears and an OCD person just cannot do that.

What???? Order is for engineers? My husband is a mechanical engineer and he is NOT orderly. I got gypped!!

You should see me and my eggs. I put them in the egg cartons. I use the oldest ones first. I take out two and move the other eggs up in the egg carton. It really gets bad if I have 3-4 egg cartons. I am constantly moving eggs around.

Lisa

 

[perchie.girl]

Another source for sales of Duck eggs is the Asian community. Metzer farms even sells Baluts and Salted duck eggs and ships them

http://www.metzerfarms.com/Eggs.cfm?CustID=2374168&EggType=Balut

They charge a flat rate for shipping which is 28 bucks wether you buy one or a whole box full.

I want to give salted eggs a try. I hear they keep a very long time
http://www.pinaycookingcorner.com/2013/03/homemade-itlog-na-maalat-salted-eggs.html

http://ladyrain.hubpages.com/hub/Salted-Eggs-Recipe

deb

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

What???? Order is for engineers? My husband is a mechanical engineer and he is NOT orderly. I got gypped!!

You should see me and my eggs. I put them in the egg cartons. I use the oldest ones first. I take out two and move the other eggs up in the egg carton. It really gets bad if I have 3-4 egg cartons. I am constantly moving eggs around.

Lisa

... Dad asked if he could take 1/2 dozen eggs for a friend the other day. I tried to talk him into a whole dozen. Nope, he wanted a half dozen each chicken and duck eggs. I told him, "You do realize if we do this I'm going to HAVE to move every single egg in this refrigerator because I'm too stubborn to either take the from the end of the line or put some of today's eggs in the cartons from 3 days ago." He said, "Yes." and walked off with his eggs.

I would have been annoyed, but he was taking the eggs to the woman who bakes me cookies.

I got a single snickerdoodle for my efforts. But it was a GOOD snickerdoodle.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Another source for sales of Duck eggs is the Asian community. Metzer farms even sells Baluts and Salted duck eggs and ships them

http://www.metzerfarms.com/Eggs.cfm?CustID=2374168&EggType=Balut

They charge a flat rate for shipping which is 28 bucks wether you buy one or a whole box full.

I want to give salted eggs a try. I hear they keep a very long time
http://www.pinaycookingcorner.com/2013/03/homemade-itlog-na-maalat-salted-eggs.html

http://ladyrain.hubpages.com/hub/Salted-Eggs-Recipe

deb

My best duck egg customer is asian.

He also wants all my cockerels.

AND he takes a fair number of chicken eggs.

He is a GREAT customer. He and Dad are buddies now.

 

[TexasLisa]

... Dad asked if he could take 1/2 dozen eggs for a friend the other day. I tried to talk him into a whole dozen. Nope, he wanted a half dozen each chicken and duck eggs. I told him, "You do realize if we do this I'm going to HAVE to move every single egg in this refrigerator because I'm too stubborn to either take the from the end of the line or put some of today's eggs in the cartons from 3 days ago." He said, "Yes." and walked off with his eggs.

I would have been annoyed, but he was taking the eggs to the woman who bakes me cookies.

I got a single snickerdoodle for my efforts. But it was a GOOD snickerdoodle.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry....1 Snickerdoodle....Bwhahahahahahahahaha

Lisa

 

[BCMaraniac]

That kind of organization and control is tempting and seductive...I LOVE order...it makes my soul happy to see neatly folded linens on a shelf and a place for everything, everything in its place. I could very well have given in to my love of control and my type A personality...love folding clothing to military precision, towels all have an "e" fold, etc. Then I had kids and they saved me from indulging in that fantasy life of order and control, thank God!

I still dream of order and even try to keep order in some places in my home(towels, washclothes, etc.), but now I will deliberately create disorder and uneven lines just so I won't fall for the seduction of order in my life. It's a habit much like anything else and can take over one's life and cripple them, much like any other addiction. Neatness is enough, order can become an obsession.

Nursing seems to attract those kind of people, though I know not why, as there is nothing orderly about the typical nursing day, and they can never really function properly as a nurse because they are so obsessed with just trying to control all the little, inconsequential things. They usually make those people into supervisors so they can't kill a patient...they make horrible supervisors also but at least they can't kill someone in that position.

Order is for engineers, not nurses...nurses have to adapt second by second without even a noticeable change in gears and an OCD person just cannot do that.

I have determined that I have the form of OCD where if you can't keep it perfect, it is chaos....a frustrated perfectionist, if you will.....LOL I need to be somewhere in the middle.....The nurses who must be all orderly and controlling usually end up in a BSN program so they can supervise someone else getting things in order for them. The LPN's and the ADN's are the ones who take good care of their patients and do all the work.

 

[Triple Willow]

We sell the chicken eggs for $4.25 unless you buy 5 or more dozen in one order/delivery, then the price is $3.75. Yes, we deliver. I'm not someone who likes people dropping by. Prices are all over the place in this area. And if our eggs were "organic" or "soy free" or "corn free" we could charge a LOT more. 
I don't like people dropping by for eggs either, or most people in general. I doubt very many people even know I have chickens here. They are down the hill behind the house and not even seen from the road. I'm pretty sure people hear my roosters that crow all the time but we don't have any close neighbors. The neighbors we do have would have to listen close to hear them. Egg prices very here too.

We had been selling the duck eggs for $3/half-dozen when they weren't laying so well, but now we've put the price back at $5/dozen, which is substantially less than the grocery stores here charge.
I have never even seen duck eggs for sale in a store here. Never heard of many people even eating them around here.

We buy the egg cartons at the local farm store -- we get a discount there. If we buy a lot at once, the price is comparable to what we could get at one of the links found here at this site, but without shipping charges or hassles of online ordering. The feed store just had a special on egg cartons, which made them less than I could get them for from online sources ... again, without the extra shipping.

So ... I paid $0.25 per carton. 
Good price.
I've read about people who pay $0.06 per carton, but even buying THOUSANDS of cartons in a freight shipping container drop the price at the links here doesn't drop that low. If anyone knows how to get cartons for that little, please inform me. 
The cheapest I have seen are on Alibaba but they come from overseas. They have some really cool and funky egg carton styles.

I can legally re-use cartons in Oregon, so used to offer a $0.25 discount for each carton someone gave me at time of delivery, but I got too many dirty & broken cartons, so now I just offer to "recycle" cartons for people. I will reuse the ones that look clean, and try to not think too hard about the others that go straight in the curb-side recycling tote. 


I can also re-use grocery-store cartons, but for those I have to black out all the product/brand info, and that's a PITA, so what I do is I just put eggs I'm donating into those cartons and trust people to not make a fuss. 

Know what the egg carton people want to charge me for duck egg cartons? $1.00!
Holy cow!

I just put the duck eggs in regular cartons, but I can't close the lids so people have to be careful. I know that's a LOT to ask of people, but   we all have get used to suffering.
hahaha

 

[Triple Willow]

Another source for sales of Duck eggs is the Asian community.  Metzer farms even sells Baluts and Salted duck eggs and ships them 

http://www.metzerfarms.com/Eggs.cfm?CustID=2374168&EggType=Balut

They charge a flat rate for shipping which is 28 bucks wether you buy one or a whole box full.

I want to give salted eggs a try.  I hear they keep a very long time
http://www.pinaycookingcorner.com/2013/03/homemade-itlog-na-maalat-salted-eggs.html

http://ladyrain.hubpages.com/hub/Salted-Eggs-Recipe

deb

Deb, I think we need to have a balut eating contest on The Porch! LOL

 

[luvblues7]

How precious!!! Watch these ladies around here, they will snatch your husband! Having said that.....where is his picture??



Lisa

Okay Ms. Lisa here is a picture of my wonderful husband of 37 years.

 

[BCMaraniac]

... Dad asked if he could take 1/2 dozen eggs for a friend the other day. I tried to talk him into a whole dozen. Nope, he wanted a half dozen each chicken and duck eggs. I told him, "You do realize if we do this I'm going to HAVE to move every single egg in this refrigerator because I'm too stubborn to either take the from the end of the line or put some of today's eggs in the cartons from 3 days ago." He said, "Yes." and walked off with his eggs.

I would have been annoyed, but he was taking the eggs to the woman who bakes me cookies.

I got a single snickerdoodle for my efforts. But it was a GOOD snickerdoodle.

Did your Dad eat the rest on the way home???LOL