The Front Porch Swing

[TexasLisa]

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Hello Front Porch Swingers

........New to the feed & a Beginner Chick Lover or Beginner Chick Momma

, we've had ours for about 2 months now. They are so much fun to watch

Welcome to the Front Porch! Would you like Sweetened Tea or Unsweetened? All the goodies are over by Miss Bee! Come whenever you can. We love stories and pictures!

I've missed everything. I did, however, get most of my garden planted, shared some pots with my daughter, moved every peep-n-quacker out of the house and took DH to the hospital yesterday for appendicitis. He's home now and sleeping continually, which is good. Hope all is well on the porch! I will most likely be sporadic this summer - no way can I keep up with you guys. Last I read was page 548 and here we are in the 700s....Be well and say something nice to a stranger next chance you get.

Sounds like you have a story you need to share!

I hope your DH gets to feeling better.

Lisa

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Exactly! My second bedroom is full of unpacked boxes from my last move. I got lucky and found a great house with pasture and barn for yhe vhickens and horses. I couldn't get time off of work.....so my boy friend pscked everything while I worked. We would load the stuff and drive then unload the stuff go home to sleep. Get up the next day and do it again. ...... So I got stuck moving EVERYTHING.

NOT this time! I have vacation and personal time - 2 months of time.

I am doing it right this time

Did I mention I am excited ??!!

My move two before this last one was horrific like that. DH moved three months before me leaving me to pack, take millions of trips to the dump, sell the dratted house, find the kids a place to stay in town, look after all the animals, etc etc. Then I sent on all the furniture including stove and fridge and spent a month sleeping on a leftover mattress and eating take out.

While doing the big clean out of stalls, dumping everything out in the fields with a wheelbarrow, I lost my wedding ring. I think stress made me lose weight and it came off my finger. Never found it. I remember thinking maybe this is a sign my marriage is over. But then I rethought. Shipped him the horses, packed the rest of the animals in the suburban, told the realtor to do the best she could, kissed the kids and drove three days to get to him.

And I've never replaced that wedding ring, buried somewhere in a Manitoba field, because it keeps me mindful.

 

[Blooie]

Hey, Sears, you can pull up a bucket or park on a rocker anytime you get a spare second! Lucky for me the Porch Perchers don't count the time away against us! And I know exactly what you mean about pages going by so quick, so I get to what I can and just dive right back in at the new point. There's never any worry about getting left behind here - the topics change so fast that we all get behind from time to time. So sorry about DH - but I have total faith that with your good care he'll be back to himself in no time. At least that's the way it happens in this household. Ken will be down for or with something, then bounce back to his old self. Just once, I kinda wish he'd bounce back as Gary Cooper or Richard Gere though. Nope. No such luck.

Enora, please try to muster a little excitement and enthusiasm about your upcoming move. It's not good to go into these things so depressed about the changes.

As a Navy wife for 26 years, I know all about moving and unpacked boxes. We've been in this place for 17 years now - the longest we've ever been anywhere - and I still have 7 boxes in the garage which are total mysteries to me. They've been in there so long the list of contents isn't even legible anymore. But since I haven't been running around saying, "I wonder what ever happened to ________, I guess I don't need those things!

Welcome to our newest Porch Perchers! Nice to have ya, and if you have any stories to share we're all ears...er, eyes.

 

[Blooie]

My move two before this last one was horrific like that. DH moved three months before me leaving me to pack, take millions of trips to the dump, sell the dratted house, find the kids a place to stay in town, look after all the animals, etc etc. Then I sent on all the furniture including stove and fridge and spent a month sleeping on a leftover mattress and eating take out.

While doing the big clean out of stalls, dumping everything out in the fields with a wheelbarrow, I lost my wedding ring. I think stress made me lose weight and it came off my finger. Never found it. I remember thinking maybe this is a sign my marriage is over. But then I rethought. Shipped him the horses, packed the rest of the animals in the suburban, told the realtor to do the best she could, kissed the kids and drove three days to get to him.

And I've never replaced that wedding ring, buried somewhere in a Manitoba field, because it keeps me mindful.

What a perfect story! Love it!

 

[LindaB220]

I don't know why but the two times I've attempted to ferment feed, it has a really awful smell to it a day after I place everything in the bucket. I know the feed doesn't have fish or meat by-products (some people said that could cause the smell to be off-putting) but it does start to reek after more than a day. There is none of that sweet sourdough-y smell that I've heard about. On the first day, when the feed didn't smell so bad, I fed it to the birds and it was fine, but I didn't feel comfortable giving them the rotten-smelling feed, so I didn't. They got it anyway, though, because when spilling it out, I was flown at by the birds. They were quite happy with it, but I've seen birds quite happy to eat trash.

I have water buckets all over the yard and just fill as needed. I need to have them out there, anyway, because the birds share water with the dogs. It gets so hot down here; I'd be crazy not to have plenty of water buckets out for the animals. I guess that's also another reason I don't use the water-nipple system. It just seems like an extra thing to do when I already have to fill up the buckets.

Am I turning stubborn? Maybe that's why I'm not really interested in change, haha! When Dad and I went to go pick up those Muscovy hatching eggs in Natalia, TX, we saw the water-nipple system they had for the chicks (elevated bucket that connected to a PVC pipe that went through all the small cages that were lined up. A single pipe watered at least ten feet of cages), he was so impressed and wanted to put it in all the coops. I admitted it was good but not so much for the main coop where no one really hung out. But then again, Dad does things without even telling me, so we'll see how it goes. I personally just don't see it being of any use for the larger birds considering they are almost never locked up in the coop other than at night.

Have you thought about fermenting it in the beverage coolers like Bee does. It would keep it from getting too hot. Crack it just a smidge. Don't give up on trying this. I promise you your birds will be so much happier and healthier.

 

[LindaB220]

Or for my older daughter and me - wicked migraines. Don't even need to OD on it, any amount is instant "go to bed, stay in the dark and quiet, worthless for the next 24 hours or more". I'm sure we are not alone in this.

Bruce

That's the sad thing about trying to lose weight. Wicked migraines ( I don't have thank goodness) I try to keep it under control but wicked sweetener or wicked sugar.

 

[LindaB220]

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Hello Front Porch Swingers

........New to the feed & a Beginner Chick Lover or Beginner Chick Momma

, we've had ours for about 2 months now. They are so much fun to watch

Yea for Baton Rouge. I'm out of Shreveport. My 16 babies are 6 wks old. Love them. You stay in touch now. Hear?

 

[LindaB220]

I've been having up and down with not having a Job since Feb and first time in my life going for an interview last month and not getting the Job despite interview going so well.(I do believe God has a purpose for everything) I have become content with the way things are I probably would not have accomplished so much that I have around the house if I had a Job. Today started well with joy in my heart, then this afternoon for no reason I started feeling low....then a surprise call from unknown number, this Lady from a church I visited once my friend had invited was just calling to check on me and wanted to know how she can pray for me....(God must have sent her so I could know he was still watching over me)

Since that time I've done more stuff around the house listening to praise songs....Count your blessings name them one by one - I am blessed thank you Lord having a job or not.
The one song that has lifted me up is He knows my name .... I can't even start to explain the Joy that I am now feeling and I had to share...

My fellow front porch swingers

may you have Joy in your life now and forever.

ps. I have another interview this thursday

God love you, good luck on the interview. The joy is being happy with what you have. And you are.

 

[enola]

Blooie I have been trying to do this move for a while........actually much longer than a while....... my biggest problem is moving Mike he has severe health problems. He is disabled with diabetes and COPD, with circulatory troubles, old surgery scar hernias. He has subsidies and other programs through the state that help pay for his MANY medications. He refused to move until we had some place to live. Finances couldn't stretch far enough to cover keeping this rental place, renting another place at the same time to hold it and all of the deposits for utilities. Plus moving expenses.

Bee had several posts about all of the stuff/junk that people don't really need in their lives. It was like a wake up call for me.

So I will only be moving absolute necessities.

I am not at all depressed or worried about this move. I will be going HOME to my kids, grandkids and other family. I have ben gone tooooooo long.

Iam excited!

 

[Blooie]

Blooie I have been trying to do this move for a while........actually much longer than a while....... my biggest problem is moving Mike he has severe health problems. He is disabled with diabetes and COPD, with circulatory troubles, old surgery scar hernias. He has subsidies and other programs through the state that help pay for his MANY medications. He refused to move until we had some place to live. Finances couldn't stretch far enough to cover keeping this rental place, renting another place at the same time to hold it and all of the deposits for utilities. Plus moving expenses.

Bee had several posts about all of the stuff/junk that people don't really need in their lives. It was like a wake up call for me.

So I will only be moving absolute necessities.

I am not at all depressed or worried about this move. I will be going HOME to my kids, grandkids and other family. I have ben gone tooooooo long.

Iam excited!

I knew that you are thrilled with it....I was being sarcastic and obviously not very funny! I'm sorry if I tossed cold water on you - I was getting a big kick out of your excitement.