The Old Folks Home

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Thank you kindly! Have I met you before? Can't remember, old memory.



I would but unfortunately I'm ways away . We do burn pine but you have to clean the chimney often. Someone once said " fences make good neighbors, but being a helpful neighbor is better then a fence"

Sawmills are awesome machines ,Expensive but with lumber prices being so high they pay for themselves in no time. My uncle use to have one. He would justify it as a business investment.

Hi Don, and welcome to the Home!

We heat with wood here but no pine. The less we we are forced to tear into the stove pipes and clean everything out the better we like it.

BUT, here's a thought. You're in Ohio? Around here you can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting an Amish saw mill and they usually are quite reasonable when it comes to what they charge. At lest they are here. Not unusual for folks to drag a log into one of the mills and come home with some very nice oak or hickory boards!

@drumstick diva, you shaved off your eyebrows...gasp.....we were taught in nurses training never to cut off eyebrows even for sutures. Sometimes they don't grow back. So you are very brave.

With me it was..a year of Methotrexate=my hair thinned out. Off Methotrexate. Some of the hair grew back. On Prolia=hair once again thinning out. But look! Some of my hair is growing back in again but the eyebrows are now thinning. Geeze I give up. My husband bless him says hair is overrated. I just sniff and say...not if you're a woman.

 

[lovesfarms]

Hi Don, and welcome to the Home!

We heat with wood here but no pine. The less we we are forced to tear into the stove pipes and clean everything out the better we like it.

BUT, here's a thought. You're in Ohio? Around here you can't swing a dead cat by the tail without hitting an Amish saw mill and they usually are quite reasonable when it comes to what they charge. At lest they are here. Not unusual for folks to drag a log into one of the mills and come home with some very nice oak or hickory boards!

@drumstickdiva...you shaved off your eyebrows...gasp.....we were taught in nurses training never to cut off eyebrows even for sutures. Sometimes they don't grow back. So you are very brave.

With me it was..a year of Methotrexate=my hair thinned out. Off Methotrexate. Some of the hair grew back. On Prolia=hair once again thinning out. But look! Some of my hair is growing back in again but the eyebrows are now thinning. Geeze I give up. My husband bless him says hair is overrated. I just sniff and say...not if you're a woman.

My one eyebrow is silver and the other dk. Brown. If I get a tan, I have a a white patch by my eye. Dad's arms looked like holstein cows. Always assumed it was vitiligo but never got it checked out.

 

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Kinda sounds like it @lovesfarms. I'm graying out much younger than either my mom or dad did. They were both well into their 70s before they grayed. I started graying in my 40s and it ramped up when I hit 60. I colored until I retired wanting to keep up a youthful appearance for the public but once I retired, I quit. Way I see it, I've earned every gray hair!

 

[lovesfarms]

Kinda sounds like it @lovesfarms. I'm graying out much younger than either my mom or dad did. They were both well into their 70s before they grayed. I started graying in my 40s and it ramped up when I hit 60. I colored until I retired wanting to keep up a youthful appearance for the public but once I retired, I quit. Way I see it, I've earned every gray hair!

I worried about gray hair until my hair fell out in clumps from medication- then my white brow didn't bother me any more, I'm just glad I grew some hair back! You know, hair absolutely does change a person's appearance!

 

[Sally PB]

I found my first grey hair 6 days after I turned 21. I pulled it out. It was the sparkly kind, like my grandmother had. I taped it to my bathroom mirror. It grew back. I pulled it out again. It didn't grow back. I leave them alone.

My grandmother had the beautiful, shiny, sparkly white hair. My mom got iron grey hair. Crossing my fingers I get more of the sparkle and less of the iron.

Sometimes I see women in the store who have beautiful grey hair and I tell them that when my hair grows up, it wants to look like their hair.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Hubby picked out a car to replace his crushed one.

 

[CSolis]

Morning sourland.. How's it going up there? We had a heat wave here yesterday and the day before.. got up to a whopping 55 degrees.. Looking at even warmer temps come the middle to end of next week. I can't wait for the grass to start growing!View attachment 2536470

Temperature	62.2 F	26.2 F	43.2 F

They missed it by a few...

 

[CSolis]

Well, my bad boy rooster got caught after he flogged me tonight.. Stinky EE... I stuck him in a tub while I moved the Beilefelders into the pen with the two sweetie pie EE pullets. Then he went into a pen by himself.. Waiting to be 'carriedddddddd awayyyyyyy'.
Speaking of my EE pullets.. Both have the coloring of Light Brahmas. One has no muff and has a straight comb.. She lays bluish green eggs.. The second has muffs and a rose comb, and spit out her very first egg which was pinkish. I assumed they came from the same parents.. maybe not. So, only have one 19 week old left to start laying, but she's from Henri and either Sweetpea or Mollie. She's smaller than her half sister (hens are the same breed and came from the same flock). I'm giving her time, since Muffins was was well into week 23/24 when she spit out one.
Oh, and Prince loves playing games on my Tab E light. Go figure.. charging it and the phone up so I can try and capture him playing.

 

[bruceha2000]

Based on the sign on the mirror he apparently paid $12,995 for it Seems like a good price for a 4 year old car assuming it isn't high mileage.

 

[microchick]

Well, my bad boy rooster got caught after he flogged me tonight.. Stinky EE... I stuck him in a tub while I moved the Beilefelders into the pen with the two sweetie pie EE pullets. Then he went into a pen by himself.. Waiting to be 'carriedddddddd awayyyyyyy'.
Speaking of my EE pullets.. Both have the coloring of Light Brahmas. One has no muff and has a straight comb.. She lays bluish green eggs.. The second has muffs and a rose comb, and spit out her very first egg which was pinkish. I assumed they came from the same parents.. maybe not. So, only have one 19 week old left to start laying, but she's from Henri and either Sweetpea or Mollie. She's smaller than her half sister (hens are the same breed and came from the same flock). I'm giving her time, since Muffins was was well into week 23/24 when she spit out one.
Oh, and Prince loves playing games on my Tab E light. Go figure.. charging it and the phone up so I can try and capture him playing.

I was getting about a dozen every other day from my girls that had started laying again. Then the deep freeze and the snow hit and I've gotten one a day except for two days when zero were to be found. Can't say that I blame them. Poor babies spent days just sitting on the roost boards fluffed up trying to keep their toes warm.

So Prince is still inside? See, said he was going to be a house rooster!

Sorry I gotta tease you a little. He is one well loved, lucky little rooster.

I worried about gray hair until my hair fell out in clumps from medication- then my white brow didn't bother me any more, I'm just glad I grew some hair back! You know, hair absolutely does change a person's appearance!

Yeah, unfortunately it does. My hair used to be waist length and so thick I would have to have it thinned. No more. I don't miss my long hair, gave it Locks of Love when I turned 50. Now it's about an inch long and I wear it like Hallie Berry used to wear hers when she was a Bond Girl....only I'm about 40 years past being Bond Girl material unless Sean Connery was still alive and then I might just be perfect for the job!

Temperature	62.2 F	26.2 F	43.2 F

They missed it by a few...

We made it up to 36 today. Down to 25 tonight then back up to 36 tomorrow. 50 by Tuesday so bye bye snow and hello muck. Frankly I'd rather live with the muck, thank you. We are hoping the snow and cold are behind us. I did hear some geese honking tonight so that is a promising sign.

Hubby picked out a car to replace his crushed one.View attachment 2538520

Sweeeeeet. Great price too! What year is it and have you found a new truck for yourself?

Have y'all recovered from the ice storm that hit you?

I found my first grey hair 6 days after I turned 21. I pulled it out. It was the sparkly kind, like my grandmother had. I taped it to my bathroom mirror. It grew back. I pulled it out again. It didn't grow back. I leave them alone.

My grandmother had the beautiful, shiny, sparkly white hair. My mom got iron grey hair. Crossing my fingers I get more of the sparkle and less of the iron.

Sometimes I see women in the store who have beautiful grey hair and I tell them that when my hair grows up, it wants to look like their hair.

I had an aunt by marriage who went silver white headed when she was 18. She had gorgeous hair. I always said I would be willing to trade in my red hair for hair like hers. When I started to go gray, I was in my mid 40s and nursing my terminally ill mom. I had these two lightening bolt gray streaks at my temples. I called it my Bride of Frankenstein phase. One day after I had got mom back to bed and positioned, she reached up and touched my gray hair and informed me that I was going gray. I laughed and told her she was just paying me back for all the gray hairs I'd given her when I was growing up. She told me to het her purse for her and when I did she dug out her wallet and pulled out a 5$ bill and handed it to me. "Go buy yourself some Clairol" she told me. 'You're too young to be gray". It was one of those times when I had to leave the room to keep her from seeing me cry.

Okay, the story of the momma heating pad. The Box and instructions said mine was an auto off model and would turn itself off in two hours. DH plugged it in and gave it 12 hours on each setting. It never shut off. He got on line and looked up the comments from buyers and hit on one that said that for some reason this model was rated as being auto off and it wasn't. There was another model that was similar to this one and it was an auto off model.

Thank you for the confusion Sunbeam!

Any of y'all use the heating pad in your brooder and how tall do you make your frame for it?