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[Rachel'sFlock]

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.

I do want to run my hands over them!
They would rather I didn't.
(but sometimes I do, anyway)

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

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.

Took about 25 or so, for me.
I wasted all kinds of time flailing around "woe-is-me-ing" about not having stuff. It never gained me any more stuff.
Then I decided, if it is meant to be, it will be.
Saves me so much time, and stress.
I simply assume my abundance, and watch it manifest from all manner of sources. I also work hard, help others and give mad stuff and resources away.
It has become a way of life
A really good life!
It gives me goosebumps, too.
I have never been more blessed by buying something new, than I have been by watching it manifest miraculously! Or by having the very thing someone else needed to make their life awesome, as well! Sometimes things come to me and I think "what is this for?". A little voice whispers "you don't know them yet"

 

[Beekissed]

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!

Y'all had a clue about that first one's body shape. Remember Speckled Suzy? Dumpy, full of fat, no good ovary to speak of? Look familiar?

 

[christyg]

Uhh.. Wood ashes galore here.. I have filtered a big bucket of them to add to my dust bath pool.. They use that dust bath so often now since the ground is frozen. I have yet to see that pool without a chicken in it lol.

Seems if I don't sift it, I have a lot of pieces of wood in the ashes. I have to filter, as my scrap wood to start fire sometimes has nails in it from old projects. Can't have nails in my dust bath!


Two buckets is much better! I've done it both ways.. It really is.. It stays the perfect consistency without guess work. The water comes UP through the holes when you stir. Not too much water. Just enough!

Just drilled two more buckets today. Two out of four as Bee recommended. Just have to do the other two..

I have no doubt the 2 bucket system is better and faster than mine. I just have one bucket, tho :/ . I actually started it in a plastic Halloween cauldron because I had no buckets. Now I have a donated one.
I would have lost out on 60 eggs if I had waited to start FF until I had one!
I never let not having the recommended equipment stop me from implementing a great idea.
Maybe Santa will bring me a second bucket for Christmas...I have been really good this year. Just ask my chooks!!!

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble....every time I stir the FF I think of this line from Macbeth..RF you must be a vision stirring your cauldron! We found 3 perfect small food grade buckets ( 2 white, 1 clear with lids and handles) outside whole foods grocery store tonight for free. They put them out filled w.recycle coffee grounds for patrons to take away. Used to contain olives and such and look bigger than a gallon. Drilled holes in then top to vent the FF. Our 5 hens love the FF. I still keep a small amount of feed in the vertical pvc feeder we made because i dont always have time to run food out there before we leave in the morning. Going to use the 1 clear bucket for my nipple water system. Had the nipples attached to a container that was not food grade plastic and have been thinking for a while we need to switch them. Could not find the right size and shape plastic food grade container. That wasn't $20! I love free! That whole foods grocery charges highway robbery prices and we never shop there except for a slice of cheese pizza on our way to target...so tonight's find was a score!

50 pages to the end of the thread, YEE HAW! hubby says I have to stay up all night or there will be 10 more by morning.

We had a big fire last week in our firepit in honor of my best friend getting laid off after 13 years at her company. Had her print and bring the more odious ridiculous emails and letters she had in her files and feed them to the flames. Lots of ashes to dust the hens and wait...wait...I FOUND NUSTOCK!! At a feed store in another town I drove by and did a U-y (what us backward floridians call u-turns) and found my holy grail, nustock. Will be dusting and then coating the nits. My hens have lice and will be glad to finally rid them. Was thrilled I got so busy with work last week I did not have a chance to treat the nits and can do it w.nustock now. Gave them several dustings in the ash and looking for something other than the Vick 's vaporub (pictured that petroleum jelly coated with dirt, dust and other gross stuff) to treat the nits.

Ps I don't FB, if someone wants to know how I'm doing they need to pick up the phone and call or come knocking. And I will do the same..no voyeurs allowed. Plus, as someone earlier mentioned, the facelessness of it creates unhealthy observations and revelations.
Ok, back to the thread before there are 25 more pages.

 

[Beekissed]

Took about 25 or so, for me.
I wasted all kinds of time flailing around "woe-is-me-ing" about not having stuff. It never gained me any more stuff.
Then I decided, if it is meant to be, it will be.
Saves me so much time, and stress.
I simply assume my abundance, and watch it manifest from all manner of sources. I also work hard, help others and give mad stuff and resources away.
It has become a way of life
A really good life!
It gives me goosebumps, too.
I have never been more blessed by buying something new, than I have been by watching it manifest miraculously! Or by having the very thing someone else needed to make their life awesome, as well! Sometimes things come to me and I think "what is this for?". A little voice whispers "you don't know them yet"

Me too!!! I couldn't have said it any better! The more I gave away, the more I got...not so much as material things coming back, just blessings and my own needs always being met. Now I pretty much give anything I have to anyone who needs it more because I've gotten so addicted to feeling that love from above flowing all around me.

You're the first person I've met who described that same thing. Usually when I explain that to someone they always say, "Must be nice!" like it's some kind of thing that they could never have or would never happen to them. They can't seem to realize that it's free...you don't have to do anything to get it except have faith that Jesus is, has always been and will always be and has the power to manage my life better than I do, so give it to Him and watch Him work it all out.

Once I figured out that I needed to give over my will to His, my life changed from night into day and it's been an easy ride ever since. I'm loving this feeling of floating past life's troubles. It's not that they don't come, it's that I know what to do about them now. SO much better than before.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Me too!!! I couldn't have said it any better! The more I gave away, the more I got...not so much as material things coming back, just blessings and my own needs always being met. Now I pretty much give anything I have to anyone who needs it more because I've gotten so addicted to feeling that love from above flowing all around me.

You're the first person I've met who described that same thing. Usually when I explain that to someone they always say, "Must be nice!" like it's some kind of thing that they could never have or would never happen to them. They can't seem to realize that it's free...you don't have to do anything to get it except have faith that Jesus is, has always been and will always be and has the power to manage my life better than I do, so give it to Him and watch Him work it all out.

Once I figured out that I needed to give over my will to His, my life changed from night into day and it's been an easy ride ever since. I'm loving this feeling of floating past life's troubles. It's not that they don't come, it's that I know what to do about them now. SO much better than before.

I am rarely one to quote bible verses, but this just, appropriately, popped into my head:
...the peace which passes all understanding.
Knowing that your needs are met. No matter how things look.
That's how we roll, Bee.

Bee Abundant!!! (that's what I want on my mug!!!)

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble....every time I stir the FF I think of this line from Macbeth.

I think it every time!
(but I also sort of "stir in" blessings, as well. Healthy birds, no parasites, happy intestinal flora, good condition...just as magical, not as creepy!)

 

[Beekissed]

Yes! Shaken and pressed down, running over, ten fold. Peace like a river. If anyone ever wanted to know how a chick feels when it runs back to mama to get warmed up and she spreads her wings and stoops down a little to make a tent~that's how it feels. Like running back to a warm place of comfort and safety every time it gets a little cold out there.

He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler. Psalms 91:4

 

[Beekissed]

For the next quiz on the OT....take the plunge. Fear is not an option.

 

[Rachel'sFlock]

For the next quiz on the OT....take the plunge. Fear is not an option.

Ok.