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[Hinotori]

Dang! That's a big saw! DH was "Now that's what we need"

 

[RainyDayChicken]

Thank You CL,
I do like to listen in, you all make my day. I can't get out much right now ( for last year or so the Dr. been experimenting on me for different RH Arth. treatments, some have nearly done me in) Thank You all for letting me listen in.
 We still have some clematis flowers blooming but most things are winding down.Lost of rain finally. tucking in my chooks for winter.:cd
Karen

My wife has done most of those treatments. I know how hard it was to watch her. She would get a treatment then be in bed for days. I really am glad you feel better, please listen in anytime.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Dang! That's a big saw! DH was "Now that's what we need"

NO trust me he don't wanna have to pack it. And the noise is unreal. See they didn't believe in mufflers back in 1956.

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Every girl in the school was required to write an apology note to another student. The counselor met with the nice girl who had given Olivia the note to clarify what prompted it and then he met with Olivia and updated me. They too said Olivia's initial perception of the girl was correct, she is a very good student and a decent person. The girl could not think of anything recently that she had done that was bullying, but she needed to get the assignment done to get credit, and she was already a day late turning it in. She thought hard and could only recall an incident from when they were in 3rd or 4th grade (they are in 6th grade now) and apologized for that. Her note did not specify that it was an apology for something that happened years ago.

I can't believe that they have been teaching this program for years (first time at our school), and this issue has not come up before!

Me neither. The nice girl that gave Olivia the note is probably not the first good kid who had to really dig to find something remotely mean, when true bullies may have scores of victims to choose from. The notes also, as someone else said, don't really address the aftermath or bring the bullies face to face with their actions.

That is awful about that poor girl...having been bounced around from different families from a young age, she probably thinks all kids can be sent to other parents. Sad!

 

[FlyRobinFly]

Just getting started with chickens in Lynnwood, WA; going to Seattle Tilth city chickens 101 class this weekend to learn all I can. Making plans for the coop,ordering some feeders, waterers, etc. Can hardly wait til Feb or Mar to get some girls!! I really think I want Rhode Island Reds, Light Sussex, maybe wyandotte,
Lynn

Planning and scheming is part of the fun of having chickens!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

To all the new peeps both those that have posted and those just lurking. Don't be afraid to right in the water's fine.
Just prepare to swim fast as the current tends to be swift!!!

 

[Slinglings]

Hurry on this!!!



Free pumpkins (Greenlake area)

[rule]Date: 2012-10-25, 5:46PM PDT Reply to this post [email protected] [SUP][Errors when replying to ads?][/SUP] [rule] Got an extra shipment of pumpkins at work and my boss gave them to me to get rid of. I have about 25 of them and am looking to get rid of them ASAP! Please call or text me at 206..330..1612. Leave a message if I dont answer and Ill get back to you as soon as I can

Apparently this was a prank

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I know that itsren has a family club, and I want to avoid offense, here, but the thing that was most valuable about 4H for me was being a member of a huge community club, one that ran for four generations and continues to this day; I was a 10 year member and then a project leader into my twenties, and then, coming back fifteen years later was astonished at the rise of small , one project clubs and family clubs and the dearth of the big community clubs which had been the rule before.

No offense taken.    From what I understand, we don't have any community clubs close by.  And, being that I live in an Urban area, in a small house, on a 10,000 sq. foot lot, I don't feel like I'm set up to run 4-H Community club.  Having a family club is the best I can do for my kids right now.

I don't think any of our club leaders had a house of more than 1500 sq ft until we built our new house in 1967 (when I was 15): club meetings were at the Scout Cabin, usually, or Deschutes Grange, VFW, or the IOOF hall. Project meetings were at leader's houses, but even the biggest projects had ten members or less.

I know free venues are harder to find these days: it's one of the things which weakens community, I think.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

The thing about community clubs was the enormous intitutional memory and organizational expertise, the ways in which knowledge, tack, show clothes, and breed lines got handed down through the generations of Junior members, the way in which supervising herdsmanship got shared among parents so that nobody had sole responsibility for the whole day, or worst of all the whole fair. Most important were the skills I picked up at club level, from Robert's Rules of Order to demonstration practice and keeping record books, which have served me over and over in my life- in academic and job environments, especially.



I've recommended 4H many times to parents, urban and rural, who had young kids who wanted to learn specific skills, but as a resident of a remnant farm in suburbia, what I miss most about 4H is the tradition of knowing and working with my neighbors, the institution of community service and inter-generational contact, and making friendships that lasted for decades.

As a 4-H alumna, I can say that I learned so much about leadership and human relations from my participation. The subject knowledge (we didn't have a poultry project, sadly) was great but as Stumpfarmer says, the organization and planning, public speaking and demonstration, and record keeping are invaluable lessons and have made me part of who I am today.

Robin, we never had a poultry project, either; it was pretty much the only animal project we didn't have; a lot of the parents in our club worked for Wilcox or (it's Steibrs now, can't remember who owned that operation then) or Longmire's on Smith Prairie Road, and chickens weren't something they wanted to do deal with at home!

 

[Farmin Momma]

Quote:
So don't anyone take this wrong... remember, we were born in the 60s and the world was a lot different back then.

My brother and sister are adopted. My brother is German descent. My sister is Jewish descent. My mom was so proud that she could prove that a German and a Jew could live under the same roof together. It's so not PC to talk about today, but, I tell you, my mom could really crack us up with that one.
That is funny. I have always found it funny that my Best Friend is German and she had her son with a Jewish guy, so her awsome son is a German/Jew. I love that kid and he is so smart (sorry just a side note LOL)