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[Slinglings]

I am so sorry LF. I have issues with most of my family too. I love my DH's family. Being with them makes me sad about mine. I wish things were different for you.

Yes~ I love DH's family but I get so depressed when I am around them for very long, especially when we have to visit them. They visit us. A lot. And call every Sunday. And DH doesn't appreciate what he has at all. It drives me crazy.

 

[VelvettFog]

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We've attended the same language school -- FireWifeJess went to the DLI as well. I cant remember what language she took - Arabic maybe. I did Russian and then Serbo-Croatian.

 

[VelvettFog]

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It's hard to appreciate the things we have, it is a lot easier to appreciate them when you DON'T have them.

 

[ChaeBird]

We've attended the same language school -- FireWifeJess went to the DLI as well. I cant remember what language she took - Arabic maybe. I did Russian and then Serbo-Croatian.

Small world! My aunt did Russian there many decades ago.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Sorry ! ! If it hasn't been stolen (serious) I know who is getting it.

 

[blueducklings]

I am hatching 20+ Indian Runners (Holderread line) if anyone is interested.
They are going to be white, honey, cinnamon, blue or maybe even black.
PM me if you are interested.
First hatch is around easter.
Blue/green eggs.

 

[VelvettFog]

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Chances are she attended when the school was in San Fran. By the time I went there, it had moved to Monterery -- not a bad place to spend a year (for Russian) - and an even better place to spend 4 months of TDY (for Turbo-Serbo)

 

[VelvettFog]

I am hatching 20+ Indian Runners (Holderread line) if anyone is interested.
They are going to be white, honey, cinnamon, blue or maybe even black.
PM me if you are interested.
First hatch is around easter.
Blue/green eggs.

OH .. I want to have ducks! Meat ducks - to sell them to the folks that run the nail salon my DW goes to -- they will even take white ducks.


I think having a flock of water fowl would be just ducky ....

 

[SweetSilver]

For a few weeks the girls and I had been diligently setting aside eggs from our bantam cochin, because when a breed like that suddenly starts laying eggs every day I get suspicious about impending broodiness. No signs, no signs, no signs, nothing. I finally got bored of setting them inside and moved her eggs left from our 2-day trip to Seattle straight to the fridge. Sigh. Now she's broody and sitting on just one egg. Oh, well. She's not a proven broody hen yet, so I suppose it's just as well. I guess I was hoping to ditch the rooster sooner. He and I don't get along very well, but he's a good guy otherwise and all the chickie-girls adore him and he even loves Useless Chicken "Crown", our Sultan hen, and clucks and worries over her. I thought that a bantam cochin/bantam ee cross would be a fun barnyard mix. I hope and pray that if she hatches this egg, it is a pullet. Please send a lot of girl-vibes our way!

Anyway, we welcomed 6 new chicks from the feed store yesterday. I loved the calmness of getting one- to 2-week old chicks, not worrying about splayed legs or other stuff. And they are such calm birds! None of last year's craziness. And what fun to take the girls to pick them out to take home! Just a few pics because I can't help myself:


Butterscotch

Silver

Daffodil


Forest

Brownie

Hermione

I was pleased to see the Farm Store carrying Golden-laced Wyandottes and ?Welsummers?. They had one bin of "assorted-dark-egg layers", and they were all this last one, I think a Welsummer. I don't know those breeds well enough to say. I was really wanting to try this breed. Pleased they got in their Buff Orpingtons. I miss having those in the flock.

Anyway, thanks for taking a minute to read our family's updates.

(The girls wanted me to post this little chick.)

 

[Slinglings]

We (really DH) own 1/4 of a 200 acre family farm in Illinois with a little lake. I don't want to live in the midwest again, I wish it was in WA or OR.

Imagine how many chickens I could have!

We visited last summer, it was the first time I'd been there or the kids. It was hot, buggy, humid, flat and dry. There was nothing living in the lake. But they had corn and soybeans. yippee. The farm house is long gone, the barn is gone, there is nothing except corn and soybeans. What a waste.

We get a farm check every spring though.

A famous quote from my son when we were there: "Gower lake is great, except for the bugs, humidity and extreme heat". It was 104 at one point. My Seattle kids can't take heat like that. They were melting!




I don't know how people live like that. I did live like that and I would never go back to it. 80% of the year it's too uncomfortable to be outside.