The Old Folks Home

[sourland]

Panic is revving up.

I am leaving spouse and kids for three weeks to go see my ornery and not yet dead, could hold on another year, sickly father.

I hate travel.... I hate new things... I hate lots of people... The house will probably be exploded, and all livestock dead before I get back home.
At least spouse cooks well... So spouse and kids should be alive when I return.

I have to wash my clothes... I have to find my clothes... I have to find clean warm weather clothes that fit me AND do not have stains OR tears

Dont wanna.


Maybe I won't, maybe I will just get one set of travel clothes, and be done with it. At least that way, being old and stinky and crumpled, I am less likely to get robbed.

There is no coffee at my parents house ...except for 12 year old folgers crystals...


I HATE spending money... But they also have no coffee maker, AND there are no proper small mom and pop coffee shops down there, just Starbucks

where they use all sorts of wierdo words and then hand me something that doesn't taste right..... Or McDonald's coffee...they have that too

And my mom and baby sis have been loosing their minds over my dad, he is being SUPER difficult... I am supposed to show up and somehow help.

At least I know where a pair of summer/city shoes are... I wont have to show up in the big city with my clunky all year/winter boots.


Just

'Al' -

I feel extreme empathy for you.

 

[Cynthia12]

Yes, Ron, and these are Rhode Island Reds!

Oh, those are puuurty! Here is my RIR boy I hatched out a while back. He is only 5 months here. Had to place him..my Bubba. Crowing too much, one of the sweetest roosters I've kept for a while..I got some of his babies first though before placing him. Have some pullets from him that are POL.



4 months old in this last photo.


Man, wish I could have kept him.

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks for all the support!!!!!!


I greatly appreciate it... I haven't yet even looked at clothes... I am, as I type, waiting for someone to drive up and take the youngest set of ducklings and chicks for a $30 rebate, just so that I could get them out of the house... Less for the kids to take care of.



I fly out tomorrow night.

 

[Pensmaster]

@Alaskan Sorry about your sick Father. Get one of these: They use #2 cone filters and make great coffee--the cone is less then $5.00. Filters are less and the find some ground coffee--a tea kettle and a coffee mug--Coffee!

And it makes fine coffee. It's pretty much how I make mine every morning.

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh my Gawd I was speed reading and I thought that was a Chick Feeder.....

 

[Pensmaster]

Oh my Gawd I was speed reading and I thought that was a Chick Feeder.....

Looks like one!!!!

I was cruise reading this morning on another site someone said their tomatoes hit the ground and I thought it said tornadoes hit the ground. I almost asked them when the tornado hit?

 

[chickadoodles]

Have a safe trip Alaskan I also hope and pray all will be well and safe at home for you all.

I need one of those things Ron.

 

[Cynthia12]

Alaskan, good of you to go. Sounds like you are needed...everywhere. Safe travels!

 

[Wisher1000]

That pair of Reds are by far the best quality birds I have on the place. They are from Matt Ulrich who has been breeding and showing them for a very long time. I bought the hen, then a pullet, from him at the end of the Knoxville show. She was the last hen and there were only three cockerels left. Matt said they were only about seven months old. I was just going to get her because I had promised my husband I would bring home a brown egg layer. He didn't like that we were only getting white and blue eggs at the time. The longer I held her, the better I liked her and asked his dad, Joe, to pick out the best cockerel and I would take him, too. She wasn't even at POL and he had little nubs where spurs were just starting to show. Both were bigger than any of my grown Campines! It took two months for her to start laying. When she did, the eggs were a beautiful blush pinkish beige. My husband was disappointed because when he said brown eggs, he had Marans' eggs in mind. I have hatched about a dozen this spring and they are big ol' clumsey, half naked chicks. They are bigger than chicks twice their age, but still act like babies. In the evening, the rooster stands in the corner of his pen, on the ground, and the hen puts her head down and squeezes between his legs. That's how they sleep. They are so funny.

 

[Beer can]

Whenever the discussion comes up on how one should not inbreed chickens I bring up the Rhode Island Reds, the best lines of this breed have been line bred for a hundred years.