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Blooie said:
I do remember Walgreen's, Kresge's and Woolworth's having lunch counters. One of my favorite memories of Ma was that Woolworth's lunch counter.

Once upon a time, before agoraphobia hit Ma so hard, she was a shopper. Loved to spend the day perusing downtown Sioux Falls. She never learned to drive a car, so a taxi was our usual transportation. Sometimes Dad would take her with him as he headed back to work after lunch, drop her off at the State Theater, then pick her up there when he got off at 5 - well, Ma and whichever of the kids was going with her.

Ma and I had to go downtown to find my wedding dress. Funds were limited - extremely limited - and we didn't have a lot of time since the wedding was in a week. I didn't even find out until years later that Dad sold his shotgun just to give her those limited funds. So we didn't get to hit the fancier formal apparel stores like Fantle's, but we shopped until our feet were about to fall off. And holy smokes it was snowing hard and cold!! Believe it or not we found my wedding dress and veil at Woolworth's, and the shoes to go with it. The dress was expensive at $42.00 and the shoes were $7.00, but Ma would still have a little money left over. While I tried on the dress, which fit like it was made for me, she ordered some lunch for us. After she ordered, I modeled the dress for her, hoping and praying she'd like it as much as I did. She came over to stand in front of the dressing room and gently touched my face, not saying a word, then had me twirl around right there in the store so she could see the whole thing.

I'm sure it was a combination of how grown-up and beautiful I felt in that dress with my first ever high heels, that special shopping day with Ma, and how soft her smile was when I came out of that dressing room that made that shared hot beef sandwich, fries and strawberry malt the best meal I've ever eaten. We ate at the counter, laughing and talking while the clerk wrapped up my future in paper and a big brown Woolworth's bag. She cried a little but got over that quickly, then gave me my one bit of marital advice, "Love can't grow without respect."

Then we bought my brother two guppies and left.
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Thanks I love the old memories... Grandma would drop off her scripts (written on paper back then) and we'd go to the restaurant. The scripts would be delivered to the table.

LittleBrownie said:
Bulletproof Boy Scouts
It’s a K-Pop group :p
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Boy am I rusty... I used to read a bit of Korean and speak survival Korean.... Tell the taxi how to take me home, order a meal or drink and be polite. I think I'm left with two words these days... Been a long time.
 
Teila said:
Hey Michelle, many thanks for asking :)

Not really; I have moved on to Stage II with one company, meaning my application was successful in that I must have answered all the questions to their liking and it met approval and my resume is now being evaluated.

If my resume passes muster, I have to complete an advisement that I am still interested and then comes the on line test :hmm

The second company may be another 5-6 days before they get back to me; if at all and the third, I have heard nothing.
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Ack!
Waiting is soooo hard.
Don't they realize that they should stop running their business and just focus on you?!
 
Blooie said:
I guess I’m out of it, but I thought vent gleet was fungal.....
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It is. It's a chicken yeast infection. They get gross black butts and leave black streaks on the eggs.
My battery hens had mites. They were all looking like that. After dusting several times all but 3 got their nice white fluffy butts back. Treated the other 3 by washing their butts with ACV and applying athletes foot cream. They were almost back to normal when I got rid of them.
 
So... I posted a pic of my chicks on a heritage chicken group page on Facebook. Almost right away I had someone wanting to buy them! Holy crap.

I had someone on BYC see my chanteclers and message me wanting to buy hatching eggs.

I'm nowhere near ready to do any of that, but it's nice to know that there's a market base out there.
 
Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
So... I posted a pic of my chicks on a heritage chicken group page on Facebook. Almost right away I had someone wanting to buy them! Holy crap.

I had someone on BYC see my chanteclers and message me wanting to buy hatching eggs.

I'm nowhere near ready to do any of that, but it's nice to know that there's a market base out there.
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:clap
 
Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
It is. It's a chicken yeast infection. They get gross black butts and leave black streaks on the eggs.
My battery hens had mites. They were all looking like that. After dusting several times all but 3 got their nice white fluffy butts back. Treated the other 3 by washing their butts with ACV and applying athletes foot cream. They were almost back to normal when I got rid of them.
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What did you dust with?
 
I should have kept my tree that cost a fortune to remove. Today my dentist told me one front crown has a bad infection and it has to be treated, them removed. Fine but, then he quoted for a permanent bridge etc. :thMy insurance pays a max of $ 1500 for a year- that's not going to make it. I think chickens are better off without teeth. It doesn't stop them from eating or speaking (bawking)
 

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