The Old Folks Home

[CSolis]

Welcome to the old folks home @CSolis. Pull up a rockin chair and sit a spell with us!

Love that avatar.. I'm about two dozen eggs shy of chickens. I bought chickens to get eggs, not feed eggs to... still need hens/pullets. pfft

 

[microchick]

Mine are freeloaders also. Nearly more food going in than eggs coming out. When the roosters go for the treats I pull them away and tell them, no treats till you start shooting eggs out your bum!

 

[Perris]

My Father in Law died this morning. Poor man had dementia, did not know anyone , so really a blessing. He had been going downhill a long time.

My condolences to you both; glad to hear he had a good innings, if a sad end. The longer the life, the more there is to remember.

I took my camera with out when we headed out to the timber this morning. The wild flowers are amazing this year. Plus I don't think we are getting our field harvested for hay this year so they have had time to shine so to speak.

This is Butterfly Weed although why they call it a week I don't know. I think it's my favorite and the camera doesn't do the fire hot orange and reds justice.
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This is wild petunia, which I had no idea even existed in a wild form but seeing is believing as they say. The plant looks just like a domestic petunia.
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This is where we have been working. So far we have harvested two dead standing trees here. There is a third in the background that we are going out to assess tomorrow.
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This is the main trail cutting east to west across the northern third of our property. I love to walk this area, especially when everything is green.
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This is our guardian White oak tree. This tree is amazing and we estimate probably germinated and grew while the west was being won as we have harvested dead trees this size that were over 130 years old. Somehow this grand old lady just keep plugging along. I hope she survives the oak blight that is around her.
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A close up of the Guardian Oak
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This is a sample of the wild flowers in the pasture. Red clover, black eyed Susans, and I'm not sure what the white flower is... I need to do research but the whole pasture looks like this.
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your meadows look beautiful; I imagine they are buzzing with wildlife

 

[microchick]

Thank's @Perris, yes it's pretty spectacular in the mornings when the wild Chicory is blooming and everything is speckled with blue along with the whites and yellows. I'm almost happy that the Amish guy hasn't shown up to mow it for hay as of yet.....keeping my fingers crossed that he doesn't,

I lost both of my parents to dementia along with cardiac problems. Mom when she was 79, dad when he was 94. Dad died peacefully in his sleep. Who could ask for more? Dementia is a horrible disease that is harder on the families than it is on the person suffering from the disorder. I had families ask me if their mom or dad was in pain from the dementia they suffered from and I told them, no, they were happily in 'mom and dad land' the families are the ones in pain watching the disease ravage their loved one.

 

[CSolis]

Oh lookie, I'm chirping now.. chirp chirp!

 

[ronott1]

New batch of chicks! View attachment 2226121

They look cute with the little white puffs on the head!

 

[ronott1]

Hi everyone... popping in to say I am alive and reasonably well. Subfloor on the house is in and the kitchen cabinets are at the house doing a dry fit... With human help of course.

Everything is ready for the vinyl floors to be put in. I hope.

So Now I need to turn to myself and those little things that will allow me to move there as they finish the build. Propane delivery and someone to turn the water heater on. My guy can do that.

Last but not least I need Satellite internet that will bundle with TV and Phones. So far Hughes has checked off the boxes. But I am hoping to get some feed back on Hughes ... good bad or otherwise. And or other internet providers. I am on the border or near the border of Mexico if that makes a difference.

deb

Are you up there now?

 

[ronott1]

I was listening to the radio while working on an art project this afternoon and they were talking about the local 4H fairs going on as planned. Oh man....what are they going to do? Slap masks on all the kids, the judges and the animals?

Sometimes the world is just sooooo silly.

My Sister in Law works at a Senior home facility in Joplin. In the past two weeks something like 86 have covid and 9 have died.

 

[ronott1]

My Father in Law died this morning. Poor man had dementia, did not know anyone , so really a blessing. He had been going downhill a long time.

I am sorry for your loss

 

[ronott1]

It's wonderful to go out with camera in hand since you never ever know what you might see. I'm constantly doing it myself. Today's pics are of Henri, as he got his toe splinted, he got his cuddles and then was off and going. First started with me asking questions in another section of the forums, then me sitting here wondering about it, and finally an idea popped into my head, so I headed out the door to get the water tubing, cut it to size, padded it, added the comfrey root drops to the padding, cut the strips of vet wrap I needed and headed back out the door to do the 'dirty deed'. Actually Henri was cool with all of it. He's such a big wuss. These are the memories we make and can look back on and chuckle.

For the one who lost her step father, my condolences. Lost my dad this year. Even at 93, I wasn't prepared, thought he would be around a while longer like his mother. Even at 68 I feel like an orphan. But I have my 'kids' to keep me busy, learning, and growing.

My Mom is 80 now and is the last parent for Me and the DW.

It is never easy to lose a parent