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[hallerlake]

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Sounds alot like my family! Drive on over here! Ill put you up for the weekend, and you can spend Mothers day with me at the horse show! Oh I forgot to tell everyone! lol My DD Chloe has her first show on mothersday! Im excited, even if it is just a lead line class. lol Come on 4312, I bet you' have a blast with me!

Sounds like my family. My wife and I looked at eachother one day and just decided we were through with the fighting and bickering with my family. We no longer go to holiday functions. We show up and visit, and leave a few hours later...tell all we love them and return to our "castle" where there is peace.

I'm lucky I guess, nobody in my very large family ever drinks too much at gatherings, and says something they ought not to have said. Of course, no one says anything meaningful. It's all just clever repartee, but it amuses us.

 

[TouchO'Lass]

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I found this one that I think I might try. All I need is the PVC, I already have a properly fitted harness, all sorts of padding, vet wrap, wheels, axcle, ect.

I see my spell check has gone missing again... Grr.

Oh that looks perfect! That one on EBAY wasn't even that nice and SPENDY! If you can get the wheels off something from a thrift store, better yet!
Wish you were closer, I'd give you all the PVC stuff. DH kinda went overboard when he did the cabin plumbing, so I have a small stockpile...

Fortunately it's pretty cheap...
Um. You KNOW you have to post pics of what you come up with, right?

Oh. And you could add a little bracket on one side and put one of those little bike flags on it! Or Harley handlebar tassles...!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I've got six (I think, haven't counted lately) 90 year old ones. The darned^ squirrels and starlings have built nests in the limbs and they're breaking up; nobody has had time to prune them since the seventies. Most of the apples go to the cattle, which is all to the good, but with the weather this unspring I doubt we'll have many this year.

How old do you think mine are? Not as old as yours I expect.

The one closest to the house is a pretty good age, but it's hard to tell when the conditions are so different: that big walnut's shade is something my trees don't have to deal with. More than thirty years is all I'd commit to.

 

[Ogress]

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Got it! 1000 posts!!!

and I bet my laundry pile beats your laundry pile! We have a laundry room, and the counter top is is covered with leaning piles of folded laundry, the floor is covered with clean unfolded laundry (darn cat peed on the bed!) and the hallway outside the room has 2 overflowing hampers and a big pile on the floor! (last week I had the kids get all their old clothes out of their rooms so I can wash and donate the stuff that is too small - still haven't gotten around to washing it all!)

Woo Hoo.. you go girl!!! I'll race ya to 2000!

Deal! I think stumpfarmer needs to be in the race too; she's piling up those posts!

 

[hallerlake]

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Here's hoping he can stay home.

 

[hallerlake]

TouchO'Lass :

So. I'm sittin' at the Legion the other evening and someone asked how my chickens were doin'. I told 'em they were growing like Kudzu and that I go to Chicken Church every morning.

One of the dear grumpy older women (DGOW) asked what Chicken Church was. Told her that every morning I get my little bag of slaw, jug of fresh water and a hot cup-a-mud and head for the run. I have a folding chair out there and I just open their brooder, freshen their water and watch the morning explode.

My little bouquet of busted bums are about 5 weeks, and it's like watching a bunch of kids get out of school for the summer: Full burst sprints, chest bumps, lateral lifts, circle dances...!

How can you watch all that with your morning coffee and not think that God (Allah, Buddah, Yaweh, who or whatever!) doesn't have a sense of humor and want us to be happy?! It helps me start my day with a laugh no matter what's on the sched, and reminds me that I take things FAAAARRR too seriously. You know. Like church is supposed to do?

Well. DGOW lit into me, said that was just DISrespectful and irreverent, (as she tossed back her fourth or fifth vodka/cran), and I shouldn't call it Church.
I'm thinking of naming one of my Polish after her.

They're a little bunch of thugs and bullies!

So, just curious? Chicken Church; disrespectful? Considering my first career, I have a skewed view...

Most people refer to it as chicken TV. You must have been to some really wild churches in your time.​

 

[hallerlake]

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That is cute, but seems expensive for something so small.

 

[broodytood]

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Here's hoping he can stay home.

X 2!

 

[broodytood]

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Woo Hoo.. you go girl!!! I'll race ya to 2000!

Deal! I think stumpfarmer needs to be in the race too; she's piling up those posts!

Yes she has so we might need the lead we have on her!

 

[SadieSue]

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Sounds like my family. My wife and I looked at eachother one day and just decided we were through with the fighting and bickering with my family. We no longer go to holiday functions. We show up and visit, and leave a few hours later...tell all we love them and return to our "castle" where there is peace.

I'm lucky I guess, nobody in my very large family ever drinks too much at gatherings, and says something they ought not to have said. Of course, no one says anything meaningful. It's all just clever repartee, but it amuses us.

Lucky you - I adore clever repartee! And I adore my family who often gather around a large dinner table with several bottles of vino to accompany the excellent food. Of course, not wanting to waste any, the bottles are typically emptied by the end of dinner, but we are still enjoying the conversation full of family stories, some tearful sentiment, political discussions and plenty of laughter. I KNOW I've been fortunate. My sisters and parents and I all live within 10 minutes of each other, my brother being the only rebel who moved all the way to downtown Seattle. But we make a point of seeing each other often.

Which is not to say we are the Cleaver family. As with many extended families, (MANY aunts, uncles, cousins galore), we have had our share of family drama. But my Dad, who is the eldest among his cousins, works hard to be a mediator and find compromise among family members who are bickering. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. We celebrate happy occasions as often as possible and expect everyone to be civil to each other. I can't take any credit for what has worked in our family, but only hope I can live the best of what I've learned by example.

When it works, embrace it, - when it doesn't, appreciate what you do have that works and walk away from the rest.