Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

interesting I may send any I hatch to you if the darn auction do not pick back up

 

[Hinotori]

I don't actually eat much chicken. Don't eat much pork either. I prefer fatty fish or red meat. Elk, goat, beef, deer, bison, and lamb in that order of preference. Childhood food prejudices because of what we ate. My parents didn't have a lot of money so we ate what was hunted, fished, or grown by relatives.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We had mostly chicken, beef or pork I understand that we did not name things unless we where keeping it

 

[Hinotori]

We learned to fish very young. Not needing a license until older meant trout were cheap. We'd go down to the Columbia River and fish.

Camping was cheap, too, so we did that on weekends as Dad couldn't afford to take vacation time. Hubby didn't believe me until we went camping with my parents that you didn't get breakfast until you caught it. Brook trout for breakfeast.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Dad lived through Pearl Harbor cleaning up the horror scarred him for life...
He believed killing without cause was just wrong ... No fishing as he could feed his family with what we had .. Much of his ways seemed strange to others.. We accepted more after he passed a friend his very dear friend that went through that with him told us of the horror that scarred him so horribly

 

[Dharmachick]

PTSD is tough. I can't imagine the horrors of war. It is so awful. I understand where your dad was coming from, it is very hard for me to kill anything. I have PTSD, but not military. Real PTSD, not what the young people call PTSD now. I've lived through stuff that most people wouldn't have, but I came out of it and was able to work, and now I'm retired with my chickens and I live a happy peaceful life.

Except for yesterday when I went to Walmart and employees weren't practicing social distancing. One employee said to her 2 coworkers standing within arm's length, "They come here and get it, that's on them". When I asked them for help, one came right over to me and I yelled, "6 feet"!!!! This was after being bumped and brushed up against by employees and customers. My service dog is a mastiff and was trained to circle to keep people away, but she is almost 12, and is retired. I need another brindle mastiff.

 

[pennyJo1960]

That is on the employees So darn sorry you had that I would have yelled back
6 feet could be what your under get back
Ours here or actually close to 40 minutes away is not so... They are just like us..
We are old retired but not open to abuse either

 

[Hinotori]

The 3rd egg that I was dubious about, hatched last night. It's happily hanging out with the other two.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Great hatch then huh .. Have dough rising a pullman loaf and biscuits for dinner

 

[Hinotori]

Light one on left hatched last night