Check out my finished coop at the 9th annual NYD Hatch along HAL Baking and Gingerbread contest.....under the hatch along section .
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I need to go see it!Check out my finished coop at the 9th annual NYD Hatch along HAL Baking and Gingerbread contest.....under the hatch along section .
Gee if I had realized that, I would have offered some prizes - duh
It is not too late, contest closes on the 31st i believe!Gee if I had realized that, I would have offered some prizes - duh
Cap I checked out your entry - it is fabulous- you've got talent!!
NO! We have enough crappy weather of our own, thanks anyway
Good looking pie Teila, you did a good job on the lattice
Gee if I had realized that, I would have offered some prizes - duh
No worries DD, sunflour & I took care of the prizes. Nice of you to offer though!
If you do it right, no work at all, except maybe stocking once a year. The key is creating a sustainable ecosystem so that nature does all the work. I have an experienced friend who's going to help me get setup when the time is right.
Gee, I don't know whether to pop in and say hi now or wait a few more days and bask in the compliments! Guess I'm kinda like a rash that hangs on and on, but when it goes away you find you miss it because scratching it at least gave your fingers something constructive to do!
Bruce's very welcome call today was a stunner.....and as he said, I almost didn't answer it. Seems like when you get old you send out vibes to every snake oil salesmen in the world. Like I told Bruce....they call thousands of people to try to separate them from their finances, and every time only one falls for it, they make money. I have no intention of being that "one".
It was funny....Bruce had me get on Google maps and then tried to walk me through finding his place. I finally did - after I almost made a detour to Cleveland - and it was an odd sensation talking to him "from his own front yard"...kinda like old friends chatting over a fence!
As he said, I've got a few health issues going on, mostly related to COPD and the congestive heart failure. My family knows what's going on via our "family only" Facebook page and the visit we made there over Thanksgiving, but I haven't said anything on regular Facebook. Between traveling with Ken, taking care of the grands when asked, and being tired all the time, I had to make a choice about social media. I opted to cut down to one, and that was Facebook, simply because my family is so scattered and many of their friends are also mine so I could keep up with what's going on. The only place we deeply discuss personal issues is on our private family page. It made me feel better to hear Bruce say that my voice was still strong - some days I feel like it's an effort to get air past my vocal cords to make sound! Ken loves those days!
Kids are all fine. Kenny and Jenny are just about moved into their new house but not without problems. This place is a bigger disaster than I feared, but the girls each have their own rooms, there's a play room with a captain's bed in there for the weekends when Evan stays with them, and mostly hardwood floors. The bedrooms and the family room are carpeted, but the rest of the house isn't. Hardwood floors sound ideal, but then we have to remember that they are not so easy on Kendra. She mostly crawls to get to where she wants to be, and since she weighs 57 pounds now, that pounding on her knees on a hard surface is not comfortable for her. And when she tries to walk, the hardwood floors make her slip a lot. But it's big enough for her wheelchair, and it fits through all the doorways, so she's now decided on her own that the wheelchair is safer and easier. When she wants to go somewhere, she crawls over to her chair, climbs up and buckles herself in, and takes off. I can't help move anything, so I keep Kendra while they work on both houses...the old one and the new. Katie is old enough to help, but on some days she's more in the way, depending on what they are doing, so then I have them both.
Little Diane is here for Christmas again this year. She and her friend Pete (they've been friends since 4th grade) drove from Sioux Falls to Billings, then Pete caught a flight from there to visit some of his family in Southern California. Little Diane then drove the rest of the way by herself from Billings to be home with us. His brothers suffered some setbacks because of the fires, so he went back for a few days to help move some of the livestock they have. He'll be flying back here this afternoon then spend Christmas with us as well. So we have a Christmas Eve trip to Billings to pick him up later. Seems like a nice guy - he's smart, ambitious, owns his own business, but boy, he sure gets some funny looks, especially here in Cowley. They drove out here in September when I had a setback, and somehow a man who is over 6'4", skinny, dark skinned, heavily tattooed, has long dreadlocks and usually wears them in a man-bun seems to be an anomaly in these parts! He just explains that he's Samoan, dreadlocks are the most practical way to control his super kinky hair, and the tattoos are symbolic - very open and honest answers and most folks respond well to that. Diane and Dustin have divorced....sad, but every time he had to "adult" he tucked his tail between his legs and left her. The last time he started acting up was when she was buying her house....he told her he was walking. She told him that if he did it again, she wasn't going into mourning. She had a life to live and if he thought she'd be sitting around bawling and begging him to come home he was sadly mistaken. She said "Third time's the charm, Dustin - walk out now and don't plan on coming back." He didn't think she meant it. She proved otherwise. She finished the purchase of her house, moved in, and when she was served with divorce papers she signed them and moved on. Man, she's one tough cookie when she has to be!
Guess that's all the novel I can work on for now. I'm not even going to try to catch up, so Happy Birthdays, Happy Anniversaries, Congratulations, and I'm prayings should cover it all.
And Bruce said it wasn't too late to wander back in now that most of our traveling and helping the kids move has died down, so here I am!
Thanks Bruce....I missed everyone so much but after being gone for so long I wasn't sure just exactly how to wiggle back in! So I took the coward's way out and figured at this point I'd probably stay gone. Merry Christmas!!
Bruce's very welcome call today was a stunner.....and as he said, I almost didn't answer it. Seems like when you get old you send out vibes to every snake oil salesmen in the world. Like I told Bruce....they call thousands of people to try to separate them from their finances, and every time only one falls for it, they make money. I have no intention of being that "one".
It was funny....Bruce had me get on Google maps and then tried to walk me through finding his place. I finally did - after I almost made a detour to Cleveland - and it was an odd sensation talking to him "from his own front yard"...kinda like old friends chatting over a fence!
As he said, I've got a few health issues going on, mostly related to COPD and the congestive heart failure. My family knows what's going on via our "family only" Facebook page and the visit we made there over Thanksgiving, but I haven't said anything on regular Facebook. Between traveling with Ken, taking care of the grands when asked, and being tired all the time, I had to make a choice about social media. I opted to cut down to one, and that was Facebook, simply because my family is so scattered and many of their friends are also mine so I could keep up with what's going on. The only place we deeply discuss personal issues is on our private family page. It made me feel better to hear Bruce say that my voice was still strong - some days I feel like it's an effort to get air past my vocal cords to make sound! Ken loves those days!
Kids are all fine. Kenny and Jenny are just about moved into their new house but not without problems. This place is a bigger disaster than I feared, but the girls each have their own rooms, there's a play room with a captain's bed in there for the weekends when Evan stays with them, and mostly hardwood floors. The bedrooms and the family room are carpeted, but the rest of the house isn't. Hardwood floors sound ideal, but then we have to remember that they are not so easy on Kendra. She mostly crawls to get to where she wants to be, and since she weighs 57 pounds now, that pounding on her knees on a hard surface is not comfortable for her. And when she tries to walk, the hardwood floors make her slip a lot. But it's big enough for her wheelchair, and it fits through all the doorways, so she's now decided on her own that the wheelchair is safer and easier. When she wants to go somewhere, she crawls over to her chair, climbs up and buckles herself in, and takes off. I can't help move anything, so I keep Kendra while they work on both houses...the old one and the new. Katie is old enough to help, but on some days she's more in the way, depending on what they are doing, so then I have them both.
Little Diane is here for Christmas again this year. She and her friend Pete (they've been friends since 4th grade) drove from Sioux Falls to Billings, then Pete caught a flight from there to visit some of his family in Southern California. Little Diane then drove the rest of the way by herself from Billings to be home with us. His brothers suffered some setbacks because of the fires, so he went back for a few days to help move some of the livestock they have. He'll be flying back here this afternoon then spend Christmas with us as well. So we have a Christmas Eve trip to Billings to pick him up later. Seems like a nice guy - he's smart, ambitious, owns his own business, but boy, he sure gets some funny looks, especially here in Cowley. They drove out here in September when I had a setback, and somehow a man who is over 6'4", skinny, dark skinned, heavily tattooed, has long dreadlocks and usually wears them in a man-bun seems to be an anomaly in these parts! He just explains that he's Samoan, dreadlocks are the most practical way to control his super kinky hair, and the tattoos are symbolic - very open and honest answers and most folks respond well to that. Diane and Dustin have divorced....sad, but every time he had to "adult" he tucked his tail between his legs and left her. The last time he started acting up was when she was buying her house....he told her he was walking. She told him that if he did it again, she wasn't going into mourning. She had a life to live and if he thought she'd be sitting around bawling and begging him to come home he was sadly mistaken. She said "Third time's the charm, Dustin - walk out now and don't plan on coming back." He didn't think she meant it. She proved otherwise. She finished the purchase of her house, moved in, and when she was served with divorce papers she signed them and moved on. Man, she's one tough cookie when she has to be!
Guess that's all the novel I can work on for now. I'm not even going to try to catch up, so Happy Birthdays, Happy Anniversaries, Congratulations, and I'm prayings should cover it all.
And Bruce said it wasn't too late to wander back in now that most of our traveling and helping the kids move has died down, so here I am!Thanks Bruce....I missed everyone so much but after being gone for so long I wasn't sure just exactly how to wiggle back in! So I took the coward's way out and figured at this point I'd probably stay gone. Merry Christmas!!
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