The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Anyone a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Absurd fantasy/scifi, they're pretty funny. I haven't read many books in a while, I can go without for a year or two, and then suddenly I dive into books again and read 100 books in a few months.

 

[perchie.girl]

Anyone a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams? Absurd fantasy/scifi, they're pretty funny. I haven't read many books in a while, I can go without for a year or two, and then suddenly I dive into books again and read 100 books in a few months.

Read Douglas Adams Hitch Hikers guide... My favorite line is "Good-by and thanks for all the fish"

My son is a big fan of Terry Pratchet.

I do that go through a bizillian books then nothing for years. But because I am a writer I tend to stay focused on what I am writing... I have about 80,000 words written.... and had an AHA moment and had to go back and rewrite the first chapter because I wasn't comfortable with the setting. Thankfully it was only about a three pager to change it. and I did it while sitting in the car waiting for one of the grandmas to get a prescription filled.

When I am writing I put down probably a thousand words in a matter of minutes. Oh and I write by hand on paper. Unless I am using a plain text editor because I get caught up in the nuances of "getting it right"

about two years ago my car was stolen and I lost the last journal I was working on. It was devastating but a blessing in of itself. I had to come up with it all again from memory... and the characters got to tell it again. Only better this time.

You see my characters tell me the story as it goes. I am illustrating as I go to. Part of one of my characters who is a scientist... Note pad grid sketches of what the character sees and short descriptions of what is drawn. So that gives me license to do crappy drawings and put em in my book as scanned in pages. LOL.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

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Yes it is. It is the only thing that they can eat that won't hurt the turkey that I can think of. lol and it is cheap at the hardware store.

My grandpa Dixon brooded chicks on Blow sand. He built his own brooder out of a sheet of corrugated tin for the bottom four sides for containment and filled it with about three inches of blow sand...

In the desert blow sand like talc and builds up around bushes and rocks.. and goes through the door underneath making sand dunes on your floors. When I was a kid and we were having a sand storm you could hear it falling on everyone's papers in the class room tic tic tic... When it got that bad they sent us home...

But Grandpa was a brilliant farmer and a sharecropper. He would put a kerosine lamp under the brooder and that tin would pass on the heat to the chicks.... Dad said they would sprawl out on the sand to sleep. I know they made kerosine brooders back in those days but Grandpa just made his own...



deb
Your grandfather was ahead of his class in the brooder dept! That is great!


That's neat. Kuntry Girl is the one that started the first two turkey threads and she brooded all her turkey on sand and she had it hauled in by the truckloads for her pens. She would not put her turkey on the ground only on sand and would not put her turkey on the ground till they were two months old. And after I nearly lost a poult to it eating the pine shavings I changed over to sand. I scoop the top and then turn and mix it up and it last's a long time.

 

[Arielle]

Tnspurs keep a close eye on the chick with the crossed beak. I have hatched a couple and my experience has been they progressively get worse as the chick ages. Mine probably stemmed from genetics though and I have heard many people's chickens only get a mild case. I tried everything with my chicks but it didn't help. I didn't wait as long as SCG to euthanize my chicks but they got way worse than her picture really quickly.
Yes SCG are working on the same pattern. I really love the fabrics they chose for this (we have the same kit). I want to do this again in a different color if the final result comes out nice.

I also just finished up a pattern SCG sent to me called buzz saw. I really like how this came out too. Still debating if this one stays with me or gets a new home with DS. He is in NY with DD and could probably use another blanket.

This is gorgeous!! All those points are daunting!!

WHen I talked to Don Schrider about cross beak he had to talk to his friend that breeds AMercaunas. APparently it is common among that breed. It is heritable and ususally gets worse,s o the recommend is cull. Of course what you do is your choice.

More snow coming tomorrow night. Maybe it'll hit you, too, Arielle. Seems a shame to have survived this awful winter and not have a record to show for it.

I've probably got to shovel the chicken coop roof tomorrow before this round.

Anyone read anything good lately? I'll likely be finishing my book tonight and looking for something else to start on.

Snow followed by rain here.

Books-- usually I'm reading my kids book report books . . . I can better formulate good questions when they are way off track. lol

Quote: NO NO NO I will not have not read Stephen King. THe movies were enough. I get panicy when walking around the farm at night. . . many things go bump in the night out there.

I stopped reading series after I attempted to read the Tarnesman of GOR....

I think he stopped at number 48... Scifi very sexist but I loved it...

Not a romance novel reader but am kind of enjoying the ones by Nora Roberts Grandma reads one per day on Audio. So we ALL get to hear the juicy bits... I am thinking... Wow grandmas pretty forward thinking for a 98 year old. Shes been reading Nora Roberts for a good twenty hears before her eyesight failed her. For what its worth the Braille institute has just about everything in digital format and the use is free because its a library.

Once a month we take her there and she brings a HUGE Bag of the books shes read and then she comes home with a HUGE bag of books to read.

deb

Haaahaaaa. I quit reading romance books when my first baby arrived. NOthing romantic about raising 2 kids!! lol

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[dsqard]

I had forgotten that line Perchie. That was right before all the dolphins disappeared right? Loved the Hitchiker's series. I remember the babel fish and how Arthur learned to fly (fall down and miss!).
Another good series is the Thomas Covenant series by Stephen Donaldson.
SCG you would probably love the Green Mile by Steven King and possibly Lisey's Story. Love that book but it might be a bit too much for you. I will have to check out that gulch you mentioned. If it is close maybe we can schedule a trip away from the snow for you?

 

[drumstick diva]

OOOH I love the Green Mile, I saw it on tv a few times then bought the video. After that I was a huge fan of Michael Clarke Duncan - sadly he passed a year or so ago. And even sadder they usually had him play some thug or assassin. He was much too good an actor for parts like that.

 

[drumstick diva]

Perchie - wow your mom has a good time and that's what count.s I think my oats blew away after menopause.

 

[chickadoodles]

I got my first 3 ducklings hatched..... YEAH!


They are so soft and sweet!

 

[drumstick diva]

I love their little feet - and NO, I don't eat them. Duckies are for cuddling.

 

[chickadoodles]

I love their little feet - and NO, I don't eat them. Duckies are for cuddling.

I agree. I am not going to eat them. Their little feet are so cute!