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[SadieSue]

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Your FIL obviously has a lot of love and healing thoughts being sent his way. This is such great and encouraging news. We should keep sending those good vibes your way - it looks like they're working.

to you and your family.

 

[SadieSue]

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Why is it so much harder to forgive ourselves than to forgive others?

I think because we know better. We know we should not do that..eat that...behave like that...etc. I am the same way....although I carry a pretty good grudge - which I know is not right and right there is something I have to work on.

It is tough to not be our own worst critic most of the time. Sad, because we could do so much good for ourselves if instead we became our own cheering section. As far as grudges - they can be so draining on our psyche. They sap of us of our own energy. One of the best things I've ever heard was that holding a grudge or being resentful is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. It's just not good for anyone. It's best to be good to yourself and let it go...

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I just went through all of the Serama pullets for sale on the 8 weeks and older section. And there is exactly ONE that is worth the price the auction is at right now. That is "Bonnie" on page 3, she's a chocolate pullet.

Some of the other are pretty, and have nice type, but like the one that I think you are asking about, if you look closely, she has VERY dark, almost black legs. Seramas should have yellow legs. The dark legs are extremely hard to breed out. Even if you have one with mostly yellow legs, with a little bit of black at the top (called "swarthy" legs) they really like to throw that to their offspring. I even have a pullet with yellow legs that throws swarthy legs to some of her offspring. If you want some really nice birds, see ZooMummzy on here, you can search the threads for "Castle Delight Seramas" there are a couple of threads up talking about her birds.

I can also bring you some hatching eggs to Chehalis if you are going to be there....here are my 2 breeding pens:

Voltron and Anthea (this is the pullet that throws swarthy legs sometimes):

And this is Bill, Toffee and Gwen:

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

LOL, the one roo with the mouth wide open says a lot for personality!

 

[RustyHen]

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Stumpfarmer, You have to remember that your aunt grew up without a lot of the toxic foods and meds that we have had to deal with.
Health issues that we can't control....

You really don't know enough to say that, and how very little difference there is between our medical history.

Really.

The primary difference between us is that I am not a drivien ACOA and was never an Army wife with three children under six.

I beg your pardon SF, I was making comparisons between Your aunt and My Mom who is 87 and just starting to slow down. -things that I have had to deal with, Air force wife to 3 kids under five. And your life from what I have read have been fairly simular although I am older than you. I hope you can understand this, I'm muddled this A.M. What is ACOA?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Oh yes, he was feeling the need to "sing" in my face! LOL They are big talkers, but cuddle bugs too. That one in particular likes to ride around in the truck and go to the Post Office with me!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Early training, I suspect.

Maybe the fact that my almost-eighty-five year old aunt was complaining about how she needs to find a job because she's bored and restless now that she's sold her five-bedroom house and three-quarter-acre lot and moved to an apartment says all I need to say about the kind of standards I've had modeled. By those measures, all I've done for my whole life is fail, fail, fail.

We all fail at something! I think as long as we try we haven't really failed. You are awesome at English and vocabulary! And anyone who attempts to farm is never a failure.

If I had known I would be such a failure at raising (and giving birth to) kids I never would have had them but we learn as we go. We do what we can with what we got. All we can do is give it our best shot. And something just recently that Rustler posted has been in my frontal lobes, no one can judge us unless they have lived our lives. Don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone is different and lived different lives. As long as we try and do our best we are much better off than a lot of people.

Put your Aunt to work at your place! Give her that Wyandotte coop to finish.

I already suggested that; she was more receptive to the idea of volunteering at Senior Services so she can help old people- she was a waitress most of her life (started at 14, retired the last time at 82) and could be helping with making people happy so they eat more.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Oh yes, he was feeling the need to "sing" in my face! LOL They are big talkers, but cuddle bugs too. That one in particular likes to ride around in the truck and go to the Post Office with me!

So sweet! Well, he certainly put a smile on my face. Cute pics of them all. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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We all fail at something! I think as long as we try we haven't really failed. You are awesome at English and vocabulary! And anyone who attempts to farm is never a failure.

If I had known I would be such a failure at raising (and giving birth to) kids I never would have had them but we learn as we go. We do what we can with what we got. All we can do is give it our best shot. And something just recently that Rustler posted has been in my frontal lobes, no one can judge us unless they have lived our lives. Don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone is different and lived different lives. As long as we try and do our best we are much better off than a lot of people.

Put your Aunt to work at your place! Give her that Wyandotte coop to finish.

I already suggested that; she was more receptive to the idea of volunteering at Senior Services so she can help old people- she was a waitress most of her life (started at 14, retired the last time at 82) and could be helping with making people happy so they eat more.

Hmm, I don't see too many FAT old people. Maybe they do need to eat more.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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You really don't know enough to say that, and how very little difference there is between our medical history.

Really.

The primary difference between us is that I am not a drivien ACOA and was never an Army wife with three children under six.

I beg your pardon SF, I was making comparisons between Your aunt and My Mom who is 87 and just starting to slow down. -things that I have had to deal with, Air force wife to 3 kids under five. And your life from what I have read have been fairly simular although I am older than you. I hope you can understand this, I'm muddled this A.M. What is ACOA?

Adult child of alcoholic parents.

A little more background: I was raised on home-grown food, including organic garden produce; my aunt and I and I have lived within a mile of each other since the Johnson administration and I have lived on the farm where she grew up since 1984; we are both diabetic and have had similar pain management problems from childhood. My parents always had a farm, sold milk and vegetables to the neighbors, Mom was a top-notch cook and Dad was diabetic from the time I was six so: no junk food, no TV dinners, lots of food-consciousness.

I left out one of the other big differences between us, though: she lacks the other side of the family's particular flavor of Type 2 diabetes; she's "premenopausal onset, lean body" and the matriline is "post menopausal obese" lucky me I got both.