The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

Good Evening Friends :hugs

Catch up time for me!

DMC Nope, I have not told my current employer that I am looking elsewhere .. to be honest I think they may try and talk me in to staying and I am passed that point; not much they can do to make me change my mind I think .. you know when you are just at that stage you have had enough? Time for a change.

Hey Deb, thank youi! I am pleased you are liking the new greets. As you know, I have so much going on at the moment and I am having trouble keeping up with the greets and made the decision that I just can’t do everything and while I will still do some greets, I am not going to attempt to greet everyone as I have in the past. Anyways, I wanted something that was still welcoming but a bit easier on me, especially when they are already on page 3 etc .. so, I had the idea to share some pictures from home :D

I hope you have some success with Kendra Blooie; you are an awesome grandmother!

Great poo pile Cap! LOL :lau

I did not have a great start to my day, I went downstairs to find that Jessie [FIL’s dog] had taken it upon herself to try and make a bed in my raised vegetable garden and had killed off three of the five capsicum and chilli plants I had growing there by either digging them up or burying them under the dirt and they were doing really well :hit This is the second time she has done this in that garden, plus trying to dig a hole under a couple of my favourite plants, exposing roots etc. I spend most mornings filling in some hole or other she has dug. I was actually so upset, I sat down on the step and cried .. I know, sounds silly right? But, as I explained to hubby, the garden is my sanctuary and I love and care for all the plants in it .. to walk down and see the devastation is heartbreaking and on top of that, the garden is the one place I have which is mine and in a way, I do not even have that cos the dog can destroy it at will :(

I put the two plants I managed to save into pots and put the pots in the raised bed so that she can not try and dig in it again. However, she will probably now just turn her attention elsewhere and destroy something else :(

Anyways, moving on … a few random photos to share. When we moved in to what is now our bedroom the carpet was so feral we ripped it up and tipped it .. this is what we have had as a bedroom floor for over 8 months:

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Today, we put down a new one! Yes, we are exhausted! ;):

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We saw the flooring on our previous trip to Townsville {Easter} and it was reduced from $60 a carton of 12 to $10 a carton so we grabbed 6 cartons. Instead of $360 our new floating timber floor cost us $60! {plus some underlay}.

When hubby was in Townsville yesterday, he bought me a present! A chicken door stop .. not a chance my chicken is going on the floor!!

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My desert rose is flowering! Just hope the dog does not dig it up!! :he

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Good morning all!

@Michelle Farmer-Brown you beat me to the tea questions. You could have worked at our tea & spice shop in Key West instead of evil Starbucks. :)

@Teila so sorry about the dog messing up your garden. Crying is understandable, how frustrating :hugs Congrats on the new flooring, that was a great sale. Cute chicken doorstop too!

I'm going to work for a few hours today at the golf course pro shop. Still no word on when the restaurant will be able to open. Things are still stuck between the food supplier and the company (accounting dept.) we work for.

Time for another cup of coffee!
 
Good morning all!

@Michelle Farmer-Brown you beat me to the tea questions. You could have worked at our tea & spice shop in Key West instead of evil Starbucks. :)

@Teila so sorry about the dog messing up your garden. Crying is understandable, how frustrating :hugs Congrats on the new flooring, that was a great sale. Cute chicken doorstop too!

I'm going to work for a few hours today at the golf course pro shop. Still no word on when the restaurant will be able to open. Things are still stuck between the food supplier and the company (accounting dept.) we work for.

Time for another cup of coffee!
I understand Starbucks is closing down for a while to teach their employees to be sensitive? Or something or other.
 
I understand Starbucks is closing down for a while to teach their employees to be sensitive? Or something or other.

From the little bit I heard about it, there was an "incident" at one of their stores. I guess employees at all stores are to receive some sensitivity training for one day. Don't really know all the details.

My dislike for them goes way back for other reasons.
 
I understand Starbucks is closing down for a while to teach their employees to be sensitive? Or something or other.

Yep. Apparently, a couple of young black men went into a Starbucks in an affluent area and were just sitting at a table, without ordering anything. They were there by prior arrangement to meet someone, who hadn't gotten there yet. The manager got prickly and called the police, and had them arrested for trespassing - even as the guy they were there to meet arrived.

Would the same thing have happened to a gaggle of skinny white girls? Yeah, someone was definitely working with a bias.:hmm

@Teila :hugsI must admit, when I heard you were moving, not just into your FIL's neighborhood, but into his house, I wondered how that was going to work for you. It's hard enough for an adult child who moves back home - and they grew up with that person!

I've been down that road with my own animals sometimes; I remember looking at a couple of rescued Belgian Shepherds who were sitting in the middle of the wreckage of about a hundred dollars' worth of pansies that I had been growing, and asking them, "you are trying to find out just how much I love you, aren't you?":he

Good call on the pots - the dog is unlikely to try to bed down in one of them.;)

@Blooie - did I ever tell you about going through the grocery store when my son was a toddler? One time, when he was somewhere around 2, he was in one of his rare cooperative moods, and was pointing out the items on the shelves that he recognized.

(Understand, if I had asked him, "what's this?" he would probably have shut down on me, but he was volunteering, so I was more than glad to have him exercising his vocabulary - Heaven knows, it could use it!)

We get to the paper product aisle, and he starts pointing to the pictures on the toilet paper packages:
"Bear," he says.
"Yep, that's a bear," I agree.
"Kitty!"
"That it is. What a pretty kitty."
"Baby!"
"That does look like a baby, doesn't it? Right again."

And so we go, until we get to the paper towels. Remember the Brawny paper towels guy - not the brunette, the blond lumberjack? Spud pointed right at him, and said gleefully, "Daddy!"
I somehow managed not to laugh and said, "yes, he does look a bit like your daddy, doesn't he?"

When hubby got home that night, I told him, "Spud saw his daddy at the grocery store today." :lau
 
We got rain last night that turned into snow...you're probably past that now.

Who are the breeding pens for...chickens, turkeys or ducks?
Woke up to frost this am again, but hopefully it's the last one.

Will be breeding Rhode Island White chickens and my turkeys. My hollands are already in their breed pen. I've gotten enough genetic diversity into my duck flock this year that I don't feel a need to isolate them, but rather let nature dictate the outcome. That could be a bad choice, but we're gonna give it a try. Decided not to breed or hatch del's this year. Hopefully next year I can get more breeding pens built and in place.
 

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