The Quack Shack

[Grammy60]

Good morning

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good Morning!! Trim how do you expect us to keep up with you? Your all over the place here!!

 

[Trimurtisan]

Morning folks

Good morning

Good Morning!! Trim how do you expect us to keep up with you? Your all over the place here!!

Howdy folksand and a good mornin!

Patti, I would suggest lot of coffee!
I just wanted somewhere where I could keep all of that in one easy to find location. There's nothing like sifting through 25 pages to find a little detail.

 

[Trimurtisan]

This little cutie was hoping across the yard at my wife's job this morning. It looked like it had a reddish brown coat with black specks. It's was very attractive!

This is just because I love queen palms.

 

[Trimurtisan]

I made a grown man cry yesterday!

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Okay, so I did not mean to make him cry...

I often get taken advantage of when someone is in need. Helping is just part of my nature, sometimes I'm able to provide well needed help, sometimes I look like a "fool". More often than not I get the short end of the stick, but I refuse to style my outlook of people based of the actions of others. I've needed help when there was none to be found before.

When I came out of the gas station, there was an older gent sitting in his car. I saw a couple of people walk up to him, and then just walk away, I didn't think much of it. He asked if he could talk with me, so I obliged. When he started talking, I just got a feeling this old man was not filling me with lies. He asked if I could spare any gas money. We are spread a bit thin right now with Mary and the boys taking a vacation, but I told him I could get him $3-4 worth to at least get him rolling.

"Bless you Sir. I don't need any cash, if you'd prefer to pre-pay, I genuinely need the gas."
"I'd love to help more, but I'll have to answer to my wife later."
"That's who I'm having to answer to right now! I am running late and need to get down to UCF to take her to the Dr's. I had a hip replacement recently, and it's made money difficult on us."

When I started pumping the gas, I locked the handle down, and turned my back to the pump.

"You've gone past $4 Sir!
"Four dollars is never going to get you to your wife, or her Dr's. How are you supposed to get home after that, or the store tomorrow if you need it? Nobody should feel like they have to beg, ever."

Then this large "man's man" looking fella started crying.

"God bless you. I, I, I can't even thank you enough..."
"There's no need for it. Somebody you'll run in to is going to need help someday, it might even be me. Just pass that help along to someone who needs it."

Then the big fella brought me in for a hug.

I'm not going to bother explaining the demographics, but I'm sure the 2 of us looked like oil and water out there. I'm still a bit weird about strangers touching me, but you could feel the compassion in that hug, and for that I was grateful.

I did indeed have to answer to Mary later on, but when I told her what happened, she knew I couldn't have really done anything different. He could have been telling me a story, I'll never know. Little did he know he was helping me too. That hug alone was worth the money.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That is so sweet Trim! I love it!

 

[quackiemama]

OMG Trim that was a tear jerker. I love your heart!

 

[Trimurtisan]

That is so sweet Trim! I love it!

OMG Trim that was a tear jerker. I love your heart!

Everybody needs help at some time. Many times all I need was a hand up, but there was nobody to provide it. I'm just grateful to be able to provide it this time instead of needing it.
If y'all ever break down in Orlando, just shoot me a message.

 

[GaryDean26]

Are APA standards available without having to buy their handbook? I've been to their website a few times and find it difficult to navigate and the software to be outdated. If they are available could someone pretty pretty please post a link to them.

Also, is there a point to having a membership if you are not showing birds? The "members benefits" page doesn't give me much of a reason to want to give them money.

Maybe I'm just confused, but when reading at the livestock conservancy, they refer to the APA a lot, leaving me to think it's a wealth of information. Then when I go to their site, it's one big money sink, and a frustrating one to navigate at that. The APA obviously holds value...

Well, I am not an APA member and have never been on their webpage, but the people that have been the biggest wealth of knowledge in mentoring me are all APA members and I have purchased the 2010 APA Standards Book. One of my mentors was on the APA board of directors and he said that APA spends more money on new members than the cost of their initial membership and everyone should join. That was about 5 years ago. I will join APA I just haven't got around to it yet.

As far as the standards go, no, the APA standards are not available online. If you want the standards you have to purchase the book. I have done a fair bit of study of the standards book to learn what defines a breed and what differentiates similar breeds from each other. For me, it is just a reference book though. I learn more from the Livestock conservancy site, the archives of the Kansas Circular from the 1920-1940's, and other 1910-1940 era breeder's commentaries and breeder's guides. I do not go to a lot of poultry shows and don't exhibit birds in half of the shows I attend. I like genetics and I like breeding poultry, and I love...love...love going to poultry shows and seeing all the breeds and varieties, but showing my birds is a lot of stress on me and my birds so it is not really my thing. I only show because I like to see all the breeds and feel that if I don't show what I am working with it is not fair to expect others so show what they are working with. I have a goal to exhibit at one show a year to let others see our breeds and at the same time we try to learn all we can from the APA judges and getting feedback on how in improve our birds. If I were exhibiting a ton of birds and a ton of shows, then yes being an APA member would be a must. Exhibition is the core of the APA organization and if you are an exhibitor it would be silly to not join APA. If you don't exhibit but work with standardbred poultry then people that do exhibit are going to be trying to get stock from you so being familiar with the APA standard and APA is still going to make membership something worth looking into. If you don't exhibit and are not working to improve standard bred poultry then membership then you may not get much out of an APA membership but I believe that you get access to the poultry press (I could be wrong), APA materials (again I could be wrong), etc. This would probably be better answered by an APA member, but I don't know of any APA members that regret signing up to be members and believe that any organization made of people as fine as the ones I have known who are APA members should be a good organization to be involved with, but the truth is I am looking for some of the same feedback as you are on the value of APA membership.

 

[quackiemama]

Everybody needs help at some time. Many times all I need was a hand up, but there was nobody to provide it. I'm just grateful to be able to provide it this time instead of needing it.
If y'all ever break down in Orlando, just shoot me a message.