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if one can not crack themselves, how do you expect others to crack him????









Having a hard time not giving into chicken math.
Myers just sent me their flyer, "hey order today and get them shipped tomorrow"
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People getting biddies from TSC and other places...
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Have enough but do you ever have enough????
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Basic rule of thumb.. if you don't have the room, you don't get anymore....
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Ok, that thought is over, no chicken math fever now....
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see how that works.....
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I did teach something like that to the older ladies I see at the store.

I see them eying the ice cream, cakes or cookies etc.

I walk up and just plainly tell them in my charming way.
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See the No No. (they look)
visualize it, (they stare at it) taste it. (you can see them move their mouth)
mmm, good, yes. (they agree and smile)
Ok now walk away. The memory is worth more than the added poundage.. (they do)


it amazes me how that works and how these sweet older ladies and even the younger ones just do it and leave with a smile on their faces...
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Now at the store I see the ladies do that alot.
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Yes, I may have a cult built around my insanity, but is for their own good.....
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I am having the same battle with chicken math. My good friend has decided to liquidate her flock of silkies and seramas due to family issues. My silkies which I have hatched from her eggs are so fluffy and pretty. She will give them all to me and I want to take them so badly I could cry but.....she has about 150 of them :( I do not have room for 1/4 of that amount of chickens let alone all of them. Now if I were retired they would already be in residence with me. Why cant the timing of these things just work out? She did offer to let me have any number of them I want but I know if I go to her house I've had it. I need intervention.....having nightmares of that show "Hoarding - buried alive" .... I really have been dreaming of 150+ silkies decorating my yard :)
 
I really have been dreaming of 150+ silkies decorating my yard :)

Ok, that is the first step,


now see them all 150 flock to you...
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now see them as you run out of feed and start to eat you...
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now wake up...
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your alive, you have your own chickens and they will not eat you if you run out of food......
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now thank your neighbor and be happy with what you have...
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self control is no fun but is needed.....
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Having a hard time not giving into chicken math.
Myers just sent me their flyer, "hey order today and get them shipped tomorrow"
barnie.gif

Basic rule of thumb.. if you don't have the room, you don't get anymore....
old.gif

see how that works.....
woot.gif




I did teach something like that to the older ladies I see at the store.

I see them eying the ice cream, cakes or cookies etc.

I walk up and just plainly tell them in my charming way.
hugs.gif

See the No No. (they look)
visualize it, (they stare at it) taste it. (you can see them move their mouth)
mmm, good, yes. (they agree and smile)
Ok now walk away.
I used to have an addiction problem with roses.

I had 50 or so of the things (kinda like with chicken math, keeping the numbers vague helps you feel better). Climbers, Hybrid Teas, Miniatures - I'm not sure that I've ever met a rose I didn't like.

This is a terrible place to grow roses, by the way. The humidity helps fungal diseases run rampant, and there are all kinds of beasties that love roses even more than I do (can you hear munching sounds?!!)
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I used to get catalogs from rose growers with all manner of varieties pictured in glowing, sun-splashed perfection. Sneaky devils, they sent the catalogs in mid winter, when everything looks so dreary (yes, I do know why)

Those catalogs even smelled like roses - if that's not insidious, I don't know what is.

But somehow, I don't think that trick would work for hatcheries, do you?
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I used to have an addiction problem with roses.

I had 50 or so of the things (kinda like with chicken math, keeping the numbers vague helps you feel better). Climbers, Hybrid Teas, Miniatures - I'm not sure that I've ever met a rose I didn't like.

This is a terrible place to grow roses, by the way. The humidity helps fungal diseases run rampant, and there are all kinds of beasties that love roses even more than I do (can you hear munching sounds?!!)
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I used to get catalogs from rose growers with all manner of varieties pictured in glowing, sun-splashed perfection. Sneaky devils, they sent the catalogs in mid winter, when everything looks so dreary (yes, I do know why)

Those catalogs even smelled like roses - if that's not insidious, I don't know what is.

But somehow, I don't think that trick would work for hatcheries, do you?
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It would work for me if the catalog was covered in yellow chick down and made that cute little peeping noise when you opened the front cover
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Bunny we have five climbing blaze roses and they are a titanic struggle to keep healthy :( I determined they are on their own this year. They are so pretty tho when healthy
 
I really have been dreaming of 150+ silkies decorating my yard :)

Ok, that is the first step,


now see them all 150 flock to you...
D.gif


now see them as you run out of feed and start to eat you...
hit.gif


now wake up...
ya.gif
your alive, you have your own chickens and they will not eat you if you run out of food......
woot.gif


now thank your neighbor and be happy with what you have...
thumbsup.gif



self control is no fun but is needed.....
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Thanks tick.....that helped. I really do have all I can take care of at the moment
 
Having a hard time not giving into chicken math.

You know, this is the first time that at this time of year, the chicks at the stores have not even tempted me......................the ducklings, now that is a different story.................
Basic rule of thumb.. if you don't have the room, you don't get anymore....
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My rule is, if the flowerbed/garden spot is not preped and ready to set the plants, I can't buy any at the nursery

I walk up and just plainly tell them in my charming way.
hugs.gif

See the No No. (they look)
visualize it, (they stare at it) taste it. (you can see them move their mouth)
mmm, good, yes. (they agree and smile)
Ok now walk away. The memory is worth more than the added poundage.. (they do)
these sweet older ladies and even the younger ones just do it and leave with a smile on their faces...
ya.gif



I can just see you doing this in the grocery isle, you smooth talking devil, you...





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I am having the same battle with chicken math. My good friend has decided to liquidate her flock of silkies and seramas due to family issues. My silkies which I have hatched from her eggs are so fluffy and pretty. She will give them all to me and I want to take them so badly I could cry but.....she has about 150 of them :( I do not have room for 1/4 of that amount of chickens let alone all of them. Now if I were retired they would already be in residence with me. Why cant the timing of these things just work out? She did offer to let me have any number of them I want but I know if I go to her house I've had it. I need intervention.....having nightmares of that show "Hoarding - buried alive" .... I really have been dreaming of 150+ silkies decorating my yard :)
This one is easy. Set a limit, go and pick that number and only that number. You can get the best ones and still stick to some sane number. I would at least get a trio of the seramas!
I used to have an addiction problem with roses.

I had 50 or so of the things (kinda like with chicken math, keeping the numbers vague helps you feel better). Climbers, Hybrid Teas, Miniatures - I'm not sure that I've ever met a rose I didn't like.

Bunny, do you still have roses?
 
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I don't think that trick would work for hatcheries


Of course not, Hatcheies are kind of like Rose catalogues with the smell. They show a picture or pictures of those cute fuzzy butts and know people have no will power. They want you to buy and there are enough people who do to keep them in business. Now the choice is do you want to keep them in business or do you want a manageable flock and not have to sell your babies????



Of course some people keep hatching the little peepers because they have some unfulfilled need to. snickers....

They hatch them, enjoy them for awhile then sell them off. mmm, it's a chick slavery type of thing.



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Really it may be a need your own children never gave to you. Maybe you always had the need to start something then palm it off on others... Maybe, just maybe, Your clock is wound too tight...

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