The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[NagemTX]

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[NagemTX]

Weird thought but has anyone ever thought what a lavender RIR would look like? Like a fully Isabella colored chicken with only a lavender tail.

 

[Chookwagn]

Weird thought but has anyone ever thought what a lavender RIR would look like? Like a fully Isabella colored chicken with only a lavender tail.

Would that be a RIL then?

 

[NagemTX]

Would that be a RIL then?

Maybe, just Maybe.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Unfortunately, my husband and I weren’t blessed with loving “family gathering” type families, so when we met we became each other’s family, then Bub came along. Quality, not quantity is what is important. Not all mothers are the mothering type, and we both were cheated in that department. So I took it upon myself to be the best mother I could be and still do the big dinners for my husband and son. If you all have big loving families, be thankful and know you are very blessed.

I don’t have a lot, but I am profoundly thankful for my two fellers.

Sorry to go off topic, but you know, its Thanksgiving and all.

Totally relate to this. Had the big TDay dinner, just the 4 of us, me, DH, the 2 kids. I have no other family of my own here, and ... I'm not going to smile and pretend to be happy to be around his family who clearly don't like me. This Sunday our church is putting on a nice community dinner for about 85 people and that'll be fun, people who'll appreciate getting a nice free meal. I'm making green bean casserole and about 100 dinner rolls for that.

 

[KF0002]

Weird thought but has anyone ever thought what a lavender RIR would look like? Like a fully Isabella colored chicken with only a lavender tail.

Lavender dilutes gold and red, so it would be a washed out color.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

 

[KF0002]

Totally relate to this. Had the big TDay dinner, just the 4 of us, me, DH, the 2 kids. I have no other family of my own here, and ... I'm not going to smile and pretend to be happy to be around his family who clearly don't like me. This Sunday our church is putting on a nice community dinner for about 85 people and that'll be fun, people who'll appreciate getting a nice free meal. I'm making green bean casserole and about 100 dinner rolls for that.

That is awesome! You are doing the Lord’s work and feeding his sheep. And yes, those families will definitely appreciate the meal your church is providing!

I used to grieve the family I don’t have because my mom has some sort of malfunction that makes it impossible to connect or bond to her in any meaningful way. It’s like trying to get a bird to eat from your hand. Our relationship is more like I am the parent and she is the juvenile delinquent, except she is 54. She is narcissistic and selfish. I guess it is because we never bonded when I was young because she gave me away when I was 6 weeks old, and I was raised by my grandmother. My husband’s parents were pretty neglectful and abusive to him, and are also narcissistic and selfish people, so my husband and I are cut from the same cloth.

As I get older I appreciate more what I do have and not what I don’t have. The little orphan kid in me still wants my mom, but the more I try, the more I end up hurt. She is the hardest person on the planet to love. I love her, but sometimes I wish I didn’t.

Sorry just venting.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I finally realized that if you take a blind person to an art gallery, or a deaf person to a concert, you can't fault them if they can't appreciate the beauty before and around them. They're just not capable of perceiving it. The same was true of my mom. She just wasn't capable of seeing the good in people or appreciating her own kids, including me. It hurt to love someone so desperately and get nothing in return. I was an adult before I realized it wasn't her fault, but it still hurt. She's beyond hurting me now. But I still have a great capacity for love, and I'm glad there are others in my life now that can appreciate and reciprocate. Being able to love is life's greatest gift, I think.