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[Rachel'sFlock]

So off-topic, but awesome, and I just found out:
A friend is giving me a nearly-new side-by-side refrigerator!!! They are delivering it tomorrow!!!
I have been attempting to make one happen (for no money, with my mind) for a couple of months, now. Ever since I noticed the old (and I mean old!) seal part was all cracked and all my cold was escaping. It runs almost constantly, and is just a mess, but it does get cold inside, so I have been grateful to have it.

This does (in a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of way) have relevance to chickens. The freezer is twice the size of mine, now...as in more room for errant teenage roosters, stock, frozen mush-balls, hardening suet treats for winter fun...

Holiday Miracle Manifestation alert 2012!!!

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

That's pretty much my whole chicken breed choice criteria...just add stay healthy to it.

Roger that!

 

[Beekissed]

A lot of people go for the obvious beauty with all the spangles, lacing, barring and ticking but I like the pure beauty of a solid color bird the best. When people talk about WRs they always say they don't want just white birds, they want something pretty. They have no idea how incredibly beautiful those startling white or deeply black BAs look against the spring grass or the fall and winter foliage. When the colors in nature are the most high, the flowered girls all blend in, but the solid colors stand out and accent the scenery.

Who sees a flicka with all it's bars and speckles next to the solid, vibrant red of the cardinal in a winter landscape? When winter snows are on, the WRs might not shine, but those BAs are glorious.

Who stands out the most in these pics? Yep...the solid colored gals. The very white, the very black, the very red. The bars and the flecks are just part of the backdrop.

 

[Beekissed]

So off-topic, but awesome, and I just found out:
A friend is giving me a nearly-new side-by-side refrigerator!!! They are delivering it tomorrow!!!
I have been attempting to make one happen (for no money, with my mind) for a couple of months, now. Ever since I noticed the old (and I mean old!) seal part was all cracked and all my cold was escaping. It runs almost constantly, and is just a mess, but it does get cold inside, so I have been grateful to have it.

This does (in a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of way) have relevance to chickens. The freezer is twice the size of mine, now...as in more room for errant teenage roosters, stock, frozen mush-balls, hardening suet treats for winter fun...

Holiday Miracle Manifestation alert 2012!!!

SO funny!!! Congrats on the miracle...doesn't it feel good that God was thinking about your refrigerator and knew you needed a new one? It's the little things in life....

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

A lot of people go for the obvious beauty with all the spangles, lacing, barring and ticking but I like the pure beauty of a solid color bird the best. When people talk about WRs they always say they don't want just white birds, they want something pretty. They have no idea how incredibly beautiful those startling white or deeply black BAs look against the spring grass or the fall and winter foliage. When the colors in nature are the most high, the flowered girls all blend in, but the solid colors stand out and accent the scenery.

Who sees a flicka with all it's bars and speckles next to the solid, vibrant red of the cardinal in a winter landscape? When winter snows are on, the WRs might not shine, but those BAs are glorious.

Who stands out the most in these pics? Yep...the solid colored gals. The very white, the very black, the very red. The bars and the flecks are just part of the backdrop.

I can't bring myself to do "color". I love the black (with green!) and the white (but for the very odd black dot, here and there, almost by accident, of the CWs- cannot wait to see them filled out. My first time with those people).
It isn't a logical thing, just feels like Classic beauty to me.
Or a marked lack of imagination on my part!

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

SO funny!!! Congrats on the miracle...doesn't it feel good that God was thinking about your refrigerator and knew you needed a new one? It's the little things in life....

I always place my needs (especially ridiculously expensive, out of reach ones like new houses, cars, refrigerators and wood stoves and bigger coops) in the hands of the Almighty. I never worry about when or how. I just put it out there, and then move back to being grateful for what I have, already.
Never, ever fails and is always so much cooler and of better quality than I could have imagined.

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Thanks, Bee. I got lucky (blessed) with the breed, and have applied myself to learning from people who make sense when they talk!
After failing the OT quiz in spectacular fashion, a little positive reinforcement was nice.
Thank you!

At least you had the guts to attempt it! I studied those pictures until my eyes blurred. I'm happy to report that I noticed a difference in the leg color between the two but I couldn't figure out which one was good or why one would be bad. The body shape business went totally over my head until it was pointed out. Certainly all a learning process and quite a good quiz. Hope I do better on the next one!

 

[Beekissed]

I think it speaks of calm practicality, maybe? Some folks like basic, strong colors and others prefer subtle patterns while others want something flashy and loud. It's just whatever your nature is, I'm thinking.

It's not that I don't like the pretty patterns and such, but I'm just drawn more to the solids. Wanna run my hands over them.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

At least you had the guts to attempt it! I studied those pictures until my eyes blurred. I'm happy to report that I noticed a difference in the leg color between the two but I couldn't figure out which one was good or why one would be bad. The body shape business went totally over my head until it was pointed out. Certainly all a learning process and quite a good quiz. Hope I do better on the next one!

me, I was shopping with the wrongest list in the world!

It did all snap in place, along with the stories about the roo's participation in the process of selecting the best layer. My best girls stay right with my roo, and the rest sort of dink around on their own. Not far away, but not "with him". Makes me pay a lot closer attention to this in the future.

I hope I would do better on a what to look for in a DP quiz!!! I obviously don't know diddly about Production layers!!!

 

[Beekissed]

I always place my needs (especially ridiculously expensive, out of reach ones like new houses, cars, refrigerators and wood stoves and bigger coops) in the hands of the Almighty. I never worry about when or how. I just put it out there, and then move back to being grateful for what I have, already.
Never, ever fails and is always so much cooler and of better quality than I could have imagined.

Amen! Wish more folks could just figure that out....life doesn't have to be so hard. It gets exponentially easier when you just turn everything over to management, just go take a coffee break and wait for the miracles to come. Gives me tingles all over each time it happens.

Took me 40 years to learn that one....

See? I've been a slow learner all my life.