The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[perchie.girl]

power bill at my house... is 6.00 right now.... If I were living there even in winter its around 125.00 Biggest expense is running both a refrigerator and a freezer. Next time I am just doing a side by side.

 

[JaeG]

Yes, that was a warmer weather bill. The price sure goes up in winter! It would be an extra $50-60 ($33-40 USD) added to our bill simply because its winter.

 

[Blooie]

Blooie, hope you've had your flu shot.

I did, and my pneumonia shot too. I am NEVER going through what I went through last year....jeepers, it was year ago this month, in fact! I still don’t have enough eyelashes for extensions, and I detest mascara with a passion! My lashes are still so sparse, pale and short that even with mascara they barely show up....look like a couple of little stiff spider legs....one here, one there, none in this spot. Took 6 months to get the smell of Lysol spray and bleach out of the house! I swear! Oh, never again will I let myself get that sick if it can be prevented.

@rjohns39 hey Bob, congratulations on your new Spirit badge, wtg!

I was coming in here just to say that very thing! Congrats, my friend!

Thanks Ron. I don't have a clue what I did to deserve it.

And that’s kinda the point of it! You DON’T know what you did because you did nothing outside of the ordinary - for you. No concerted effort with the badge in mind, no expectations, just doing the right thing the best way you know how, just because it is what you do so well. People respond to that kind of empathy, honesty and open sharing, at least I do. I much prefer that to artifice and insincere interactions. So you just keep on not knowing what you did to derserve it....we know, and that’s what counts.

And it's snowing like no one's business now.

Isn't that special

We’re supposed to get wild winds and snow into tomorrow afternoon, but so far nothing. Hope it stays that way!

I’m not feeling much better, but thanks for the wishes. I just got up to eat some soup and checked in to answer some posts when I saw that shiny new badge leading me here like some mystical light from another world - kinda like Clark’s Christmas house seen from space. I slept all afternoon and still feel so tired. So I’ve had my soup, a little container of Activia, and I’m going to lay back down and watch one of my few TV shows to deaden my mind for a bit. Ken’s been taking care of Fiona and me, but I’m waiting to see if he’s noticed how many dirty dishes have accumulated throughout today. If not, and he comes to bed, I’ll pop up and knock them out - I can’t stand them sitting there overnight.

 

[007Sean]

Shouldn't that be: Pajama Llama Mama ding dong? Oh wait, I think that's a 50's song!

Shama Llama ding dong, and this ain't the Sin Bin!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

LOL... And thank you

Been thrown more times than I can count. Right now I am struggling to wrap my mind around not having horses any more. I have had a partnership with them for more than fifty years.... But I cannot keep an Equid because its so hard to find a farrier up here. No feet No Horse. but I am toying with the idea of a Llama... I can do the trimming on them.

Donkeys and miles don't require farriers either. Their hooves grow in the opposite direction of a horse, thusly wearing down naturally. (Or so I've been told).

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Hey, guess what I did? Yep, had a cookie Keeping chickens was a lot easier in Florida than it has been in Wyoming (but the poo is easier to clean up in WY, it's so dry here the poo dries up like little rocks).



Keeping my fingers crossed you don't get that freezing rain DMC

And never say never re: the bakery! Who knows, could happen (and you'd be great at it).

BUT, if you have the same luck I'm having, it freezes into a solid mass, that is next to impossible to break.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

power bill at my house... is 6.00 right now.... If I were living there even in winter its around 125.00 Biggest expense is running both a refrigerator and a freezer. Next time I am just doing a side by side.

My power bill is $0.
Unless you count the gas I have to buy for the generator this time of year to keep the batteries charged.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Apartment hunting is a real pain the rear lol but on the bright side, the place I’m looking is really cheap and it seems a lot of apartments in the area include utilities

 

[perchie.girl]

Donkeys and miles don't require farriers either. Their hooves grow in the opposite direction of a horse, thusly wearing down naturally. (Or so I've been told).

Unfortunately you were told wrong. It really depends on how well the hoof is shaped and what kind of ground they are on... Donkeys Mules And horses in the right conditions will rarely need a farrier... But that depends... on how many miles they walk during the day .... My mare did pretty well on a twice a year trim... when she was younger but as she got older she didnt move around as much... Her feet looked horrible and she had very good solid hooves. Once the farrier did his work they would look normal again.

But I was critisized over the practice.... Donkeys and mule feet grow more perpendicular than horses... If they standup on their wall then they wear it evenly.... But I have seen some that were club footed because they didnt get attention when they needed it.
there are bones inside the hoof The Pedal Bone the Navicular bone and part of the lower pastern bone. These need room to move and a good environment. If the navicular bone begins to deteriorate You have a lame horse.... unrecoverably....

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

House hunting is even a bigger pain, kdogg