The Old Folks Home

[bamadude]

OK.... now I know I am in the right place!  I see someone is online and posting even now!  Sorry, I guess this proves I ready for The Old Folks home!!!

Here. Try this jacket on. It just SEEMS backwards

 

[bamadude]

Fruit stripe gum has gotta be a southern thing.

Hopefully the little guys like Juicy Fruit or bubblemint.

It may be. I dont go far away from Alabama very often

 

[bamadude]

they can handle the new thread

There is no way I could keep up on your thread and the new years HAL at the same time.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

There is no way I could keep up on your thread and the new years HAL at the same time.

thats cause you drink too much and yer eyes get too darn cross eyed all the time and when you shaker yer head it starts ta spin too fast

 

[bamadude]

dude is that whut this is?  no wonder Rons here

I changed the sign at the end of the hall way

 

[bamadude]

thats cause you drink too much and yer eyes get too darn cross eyed all the time and when you shaker yer head it starts ta spin too fast

Lol. I drink just enough.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Lol. I drink just enough.

like a woman's skirt, just enough to cover the subject and just enough to create interest eh?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

see why I get my post counts up?

we chat dont we

 

[Wisher1000]

<opens door peeks in and whispers> Hey, y’all, Wisher sent me to find the old folks home, I’m new in these parts, and I’m sorta lost, I gotta find the home soon cause I am real nervous, I’m scared comin out in public and all, kinda like right before I have to say Worcestershire sauce. So if you don’t mind, can someone show me the way please?

Sally! Here, this rocker is not taken at the moment, have a seat! Welcome to the Old Folks' Home! Bingo in the main dining room at 4:00.

I'm retired, so I think I'm old enough to join this group! I've been enjoying chickens since just before my retirement 4 years ago. We moved from a condo in Santa Monica to a small home in a retirement community in Atascadero, CA. We are so lucky! Our little home is perfectly sized for us (at least I think so.... my husband would disagree... he wanted something larger with a fireplace...oh well) and we have enough room and the permission of the organization to have a small flock of chickens!
Our first flock consisted of 2 red stars, and 2 bard rocks. Unfortunately, after one productive year a raccoon went on a killing spree and lopped the heads off of all of them dragging only one out for the rest of it's meal. Very sad day!! Since it was too late to start chicks again we opted for a 'teenage' set: 2 silver-laced wyndots and 2 cokcoo morans. The Wyndotts were 'iffy' layers and mean to the morans who were great layers! We decided to raise 2 chicks the next spring and re-homed the Wyndotts.
The new checks were Red stars again. Then last year we a light Brahma and an Astrolorp. They got along with the older chickens, the Brahma (Socks) becoming the queen of the flock! This year we decided that since we had lost one of the Morons (to what I later found out to be a prolapse) and Big Mama (the other one) is in her 4th year we should get 2 more chicks; a Rock Island Red and a Buff Orpington. Socks was really bossy of the chicks to the point I had to segregate her for a couple of days. She still had her moments until she started to moult! I guess when you are that ugly you can't be the boss any more! By the time she got her feathers back the little girls had learned to stand up for themselves and the flock seems to have settled down.
The only problem now is that we only have 1 chicken laying! It's the Buff. The RIR has not started laying and she is 24 weeks old! Should I be concerned? We do like our eggs, and my husband (the one who wanted the bigger house) doesn't want to be feeding chickens who don't keep up their part of the bargain!
I am going to give them all the benefit of the doubt... Socks and Red (the red Star) just came out of moult. Big Mama is old, and the Astrolorp (Flash) never has been a consistent layer quitting when it got dark last winter. But if we don't see an increased in production by Feb.... we will be looking forward to raising another batch of chicks!!!
Well, I'll be checking in here fairly often.
Carol

You sound like you will fit in here just fine, come back anytime you want, stay and visit with the Old Folks.

I was with y'all before for a bit before but I couldn't keep up on the diary thread and this one back then

See? That's the beauty of TOFH is that you don't have to keep up. We ramble on and anyone can jump into the conversation any time. There is no such thing as off topic here.

I changed the sign at the end of the hall way

Should I ask what it says now?

If you want to send SCG some Fruit Stripe gum, I have her mailing address.........

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Sally! Here, this rocker is not taken at the moment, have a seat! Welcome to the Old Folks' Home! Bingo in the main dining room at 4:00.

You sound like you will fit in here just fine, come back anytime you want, stay and visit with the Old Folks.


See? That's the beauty of TOFH is that you don't have to keep up. We ramble on and anyone can jump into the conversation any time. There is no such thing as off topic here.


Should I ask what it says now?

If you want to send SCG some Fruit Stripe gum, I have her mailing address.........

Wisher

thank you my friend... and I saw the sign but I cant tell you what it said, cause I am a proper girl, but some young kid took it down and started runnin with it, was a bit scared to open the door to come in.