The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Oh man, that sucker is expensive! Have to look for one at Goodwill. Sadly the stores around here don't have much to sell.

Look for estate auctions, ebay and amazon returns

 

[Wickedchicken6]

okay so we all meet at your place @Wickedchicken6 insomniac party 09/20/2017

Woooohoooo!! C'mon down...er, up! Calling all vampires and insomniacs!!
Maybe a few wicked ones.
It is time to PARTAY!!! (Gee, won't that be quite the mix)

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I worked about eight yrs here in the unloading bay taking in semis of milk mostly, some cream, condensed skim, and condensed whole. Was a great job never saw a supervisor and got to BS with drivers all day. It would take about a hour and a half sometimes two from start to finish with two pumping and two washing. So I had a pretty good relationship with most of the drivers. It was 2nd shift though, 1:30-9:30.
I've moved around the plant since, have a gravy job now that I just read books all day or play on my phone, condense the whey to 40% solids. On 2nd again also, hard to see the kids in school and sports...
Think I'm going back out to the milk receiving bay soon, jobs up. Pretty sure I'll get it not many want to work weekends. It's weekend day off relief.
1st shift Fri Sat and 2nd Sun Mon, 10hr shifts. 10hr shift but three days off, and it works out awesome on vacations with adding personal days to the start or tail. And I'll have people to talk to again! I see absolutely nobody ever where I work now.
I like to talk Lol!

I quite love hearing about everyone's different jobs. There is so much a person never considers or knows about that happens in the background to make everything happen. I love learning those details. It really helps to get an understanding and appreciate all that one takes for granted.

I chatted with a fellow (different site) who worked in a food packaging plant. Oh my goodness...the details and work that goes into to the food packages we use...amazing! Even the the little packets of that you rip open...just wow. Amazing stuff one would never even consider...lol.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have worked as a bus person, a waitress, a pet store clerk, a pizza maker/server, making snow cones and French fries, baby sitter, gold leaf applier, picture framer, artist, animal food packer, professional dog groomer, a (goat , chicken and rabbit )farmer and a nurse.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I allow a couple of tiny spider to survive in this house; they always build their web above the light over the sink we leave on at night...and that gets most of the bugs and flies that get in during the day. We can just take a broom or cloth and wipe those few webs down every so often. We wash the wall once it freezes outside.

But this is definitely NOT what I want on my head! This big nasty barn spider was on the old t-shirt I was wearing on my head. Now that's just not funny.

Dh just walked past and he had the audacity to tell me my head is shaped weird according to this pic.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I have worked as a bus person, a waitress, a pet store clerk, a pizza maker/server, making snow cones and French fries, baby sitter, gold leaf applier, picture framer, artist, animal food packer, professional dog groomer, a (goat , chicken and rabbit )farmer and a nurse.

You have had a wide gamut of jobs! Wow!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Hi everyone!

Fall business continues on this end. Still doing coop work, separating birds to even out pens, blah blah blah. Harvesting trees yet for firewood. Doing fall cleaning in the house......grumble grumble grumble. Finally got the new roof on the portable coop. YAY! It rained last night so just under the wire on that one as I finished capping in the ends yesterday afternoon.

Apples are coming on strong. DH and I have been peeling, slicing, freezing and dehydrating for two weeks now. The chickens are now turning their noses up at the piles of peelings, cores and rejects we are tossing at them every day. Even they are getting tired of them. Yesterday, DH suggested that maybe it was time to get a cider press. Don't know whether to laugh or cry at that suggestion. I would just as soon give the extras to our neighbor and their 12 kids (non Amish. I think they just love haing kids).

Chickens are doing well....knock on wood. No unusual deaths in two months. I feel like I need a rabbit's foot, four leaf clover, anything, at this point in time.

I finally ceased my war with my Insurance company. I just grew tired of it, even after they admitted---finally-- that they were in the wrong but refused to do anything to right the problem. You can't fight them and win. I could probably get a lawyer and drag them to court on misrepresentation of policy benefits (which they finally admitted they were doing) but by this time next year I am on Medicare and can tell them to take a flying leap. Yes, I still hate insurance companies for the most part. Nope, my opinion of them isn't going to change. If any of you work in the insurance industry, you are not at fault and sorry for stepping on toes but entitled to my opinion I am.

As for Bantams vs Standard roosters, yep. My little boys are on the standards like ugly on an ape at the smallest transgression (breathing, stepping too close to a hen, the waterer or the feeder, looking at them, looking at a hen, looking at me, etc) I finally had to separate the four standard sized boys from the bantams because the bantams were beating the dirt out of them on a continuous basis and the standards have 2 inch long spurs that they choose not to use. My husband called it death by a thousand Munchkins. Bantams mirror the old saying of diamonds and dynamite coming in small packages.

Y'all have a nice Sunday.

Glad to hear your that everything at the moment is good with your chickens.
I have two oegbs that I've paid more attention to, not meaning to but apparently I have...and be darned if I didn't notice until yesterday that they get jealous!!

Blue's not so bad but Mr. Sweetness...he gets downright concerned! I picked up blue first and I could see Toe watching and he worked his way over and hops up on his post. I moved over to where he was and stood beside him thinking he'd climb on my shoulder. Nope. I felt a light peck. And then another! I guess wanting his turn? I set Blu down and Mr. Sweetness hopped to my hand before I even got it close...

 

[CapricornFarm]

The deck so far...

 

[ronott1]

The deck so far...View attachment 1138620

The new deck will add a lot of space to the outside of the house!

 

[CapricornFarm]

The new deck will add a lot of space to the outside of the house!

Yes, and we can store a lot of fire wood under there!