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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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oh my these are so sweet. How cute.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

TouchO'Lass :

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Went thru similar when my daughter was 17. Good student, no issues, then suddenly she's smothered and has to leave. ? Law said she could, so what could I do but stand by? I left the country. I told her straight out I wasn't going to hang around for the Sheriff to show up and tell me she was in jail or, God forbid, dead in a ditch. I told her I refused to do it.

Soooo hard to do, but that tough love thing really works. Several months later she was working 2 burger joint jobs just to pay rent and all her "friends" were eating her groceries and abusing her hospitality. Large. The truck we had given her had been impounded, and all her "friends" were drifting away since she couldn't drive them around...

I am SO fortunate. My youngun finally realized I wasn't the bad guy. We worked out a living arrangement that included her contributing to expenses, even tho I didn't need it.

Now my oldest grandson is about to graduate. He's giving her grief, very much like you've described. And so the cycle continues...

I wish you strength, sista girl, until your DS figures out what he's losing. And I will keep ya in my prayers...

Thank you so much....i really need to good thoughts. I just hope he pulls it together. But, I think that he will have to learn the hard way. I will keep everyone updated.​

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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So true......but mostly this is one contractor who has hired alot of sub contracting, which is the way of the world now, too.
That way the contractor does not have to buy all the equipment & keep so many guys on his payroll.
The trick that is going on now, is each "group" of subcontractors has to be brought over with the main contractor and shown the project & introduced to us.
I hate my privacy invaded by so many strangers....

OMG, yes to that: it's one reason I'm so DIY on everything I can be: I hate having strangers here, especially plumbers for some reason (no avoiding that: we need a toilet replaced, and that's something I don't feel like learning at this time of life). I lucked out when we needed the front steps rebuilt after my husband's surgery: my master carpenter cousin was out of work, strangely enough, and could do it.

Of course the other reason is that I grew up around people who could do basically everything except sheet metal work.

 

[hokankai]

The symptoms are treated with certain antibiotics. In my case we started off with Duramycin which helped the two adult girls, and then I'll be using Denagard. If the Denagard doesn't work I'll try Tylan if I can find it anywhere.

Unfortunately it's a cause of CRD, so basically it's herpes in a respiratory illness way. They'll carry it forever and have flare ups if they get stressed. I'll just have to manage it and won't be getting any more birds

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What beautiful photos of the babies! Love the pics of the mom and babies. Glad to hear you haven't had any casualties from the MG. How is that treated and is it something that runs it's course then goes away? Something else I need to research I guess...

 

[Rainwolf]

this would be great for a starter! http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/grd/2404865312.html
and only $25!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Well, after camping for 3 days...I went and took a shower...get off all the dirt and grime. Well, hmmmmm, get into nice hot shower...no body soap. I have to use 10 yo DD's body soap she got at Christmas. It is in a bottle with a penguin head, smells like a vanilla cookie and has sparkles. So here I sit, nice and squeaky clean, ready to go nite-nite, got my tea, I smell like a vanilla cookie and my nice clean tootsies - yep, you guessed it - have glitter on them.

Night all.

 

[BarnChick]

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thats just too funny!

I would smell like coconut if I had to use my daughter's bath stuff

 

[BarnChick]

ok all, I have a question for you. Ihave a freezer that has stopped working. Anyone have any ideas or plans on how to convert to an incubator?

 

[broodytood]

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Check out the home made incubator section in the learning center! That's how I made mine, by reading up! So far it has hatched over 50 eggs for me since the middle of March!
I used a mini fridge, tweaked hot water heater thermostat, still air fan and a light kit. I also put a window in the door. Luckily, a standard egg turner fit in it. Here's a pic.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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The best pale pink climber for Raymond is New Dawn, but it's not very fragrant nor probably what you're thinking of as old-fashioned (not extremely double); there's a great big not-old-fashioned Grandiflora called Queen Elizabeth which is happy there, too (my friend who had a midwifery practice in South Bend had a glorious one in her yard) but it's a huge shrub rather than a climber. Climbing Cecile Brunner gets big, and has a nice tea-rose fragrance in flowers that look as if they came off a wedding cake.


As for yellows, will you take apricot? Look into Buff Beauty; it's amazingly fragrant and a vigorous climber. There's good yellow climbers you could get that I can't grow because my winter temperatures are too low; the best true yellows are the old Tea and Noisette climbers.

The best white, hands down, is Long John Silver.

Places to look:

Antique Rose Emporium, Heirloom Roses, Vintage Gardens, possibly Roses of Yesterday and Today is OK now; in the eighties they nearly destroyed the oldest Heritage Rose business in the US by not paying attention to their rootstock's virus infection. Antique Rose Farm up in Snohomish have great plants, but you have to go there to get them, which has been hard to do lately.

My favorite old pink, not a climber, though; the damask Ispahan:

Long John Silver in a typical June state of bloom:

It's once blooming, where once includes June, July, August and off and on until October 30, when this photo was taken:

Buff Beauty, which blooms in waves from June until September or October (and might bloom in winter in Raymond)

(some questions it's dangerous to ask me, sorry)