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[Flaming Chicken]

Good luck at the horse show, hope it's successful!

My daughter entered 6 classes. She was last in the first few and cried but things improved. Her teacher told her not to worry about how she did compared to the others but to think about how she was doing with what she was working on in lessons. (I love that guy). She cheered up after that, rode better and got some really good feedback about her riding. She did great in her trail class.

We got the new chicken coop moved. Now I just need to find someone to help me build some chicken runs for both coops.

 

[KMHunter]

I ordered Mareck's for my babies that are coming in about 10 days. I probably will wait until after Memorial day due to my schedule, but if anyone in and around my area wants to come over and bring any babies to vaccinate let me know. There will be plenty! Vaccine is only good for an hour after mixing. And you will have to get some syringes with 25ga needles. And it would be awsome if those that want to participate made a small contribution toward the cost of the vaccine and shipping?

I am thinking the Saturday after Memorial day. PM me if you are interested.

 

[Farmin Momma]

I ordered Mareck's for my babies that are coming in about 10 days. I probably will wait until after Memorial day due to my schedule, but if anyone in and around my area wants to come over and bring any babies to vaccinate let me know. There will be plenty! Vaccine is only good for an hour after mixing. And you will have to get some syringes with 25ga needles. And it would be awsome if those that want to participate made a small contribution toward the cost of the vaccine and shipping?

I am thinking the Saturday after Memorial day. PM me if you are interested.

Oh darn, if only this had happened a bit sooner I would go in on that with you. I am in Mill Creek. I have never giving my chickens shots and am nervous about giving them the shots. I wish I had some one here to help me. But I don't even have friends or family that have anything more than a dog. And they all think I am crazy having a farm.

I already bought my vaccine bundle from Shoreline farm supply. The have free delivery and were the only ones I could find that could get it for me. Only cost me $50 and some change. They deliver for free all the way up to Arlington and Granite Falls area. Just an FYI for any one needing it .

 

[Greg Richardson]

Happy Mother's Day!

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of
next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
'If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an
accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
'You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't
have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, They are going to freeze that
way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come
running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favorite: my mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they .............
Happy Mothers Day!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK so I know this is a little early but this way all should see it.

Happy Mothers Day to all the moms and to all those filling the position for missing moms. We love ya all Ladies.

 

[Breshcandra]

Oh darn, if only this had happened a bit sooner I would go in on that with you. I am in Mill Creek. I have never giving my chickens shots and am nervous about giving them the shots. I wish I had some one here to help me. But I don't even have friends or family that have anything more than a dog. And they all think I am crazy having a farm.

I already bought my vaccine bundle from Shoreline farm supply. The have free delivery and were the only ones I could find that could get it for me. Only cost me $50 and some change. They deliver for free all the way up to Arlington and Granite Falls area. Just an FYI for any one needing it .

I got shown at the Monroe show in March. Its pretty simple. And I am still kicking my self for not getting some.

PS How are the babies?

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Happy Mother's Day to all the mommies!

My Jersey Giant has decided she wants to be a mommy again! She is fiercly protecting six ceramic eggs right now, has been for two days now. I have been trying to get her interested in the chicks (four weeks) but she wants to hatch her own.

Does anyone have a half-dozen Icelandic eggs I could purchase?

thank you! dawn

 

[Greg Richardson]

HOW GOD HEALED MY HEART – A MOTHER’S DAY DEVOTIONAL – Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

In 1985, my mother was dying of cancer. She had discovered a lump in her breast in June of 1982, and by the time the mastectomy was done, the lump had grown so large that it was wrapped around two of her ribs. There was little hope, but she fought the cancer valiantly for three years. The Monday before Mother’s Day, 1985, I had an overwhelming urge to go home to see her. She was in the hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and I lived and worked in Houston, Texas – over 500 miles away. I was in the middle of producing the first telethon for the Houston chapter of the March of Dimes, scheduled for the end of June, so taking off from work for a few days to drive home wasn’t in the books. I had to fly. And money was really tight.

After arguing with myself for 24 hours over charging something I couldn’t afford to pay for, I gave in and put the round trip ticket on my credit card. I would be flying out on Saturday morning, and my former brother-in-law would pick me up at the airport and take me to the hospital so I could surprise both of my parents. When I walked into Mama’s room Saturday afternoon, I had a big red bow pinned to the top of my head, and said, “Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s your present!”

Mama was thrilled, and we spent all day and into the night talking. I spent the night at my parents’ home Saturday night, went back to the hospital and spent a few more hours with Mama, then my father took me to the airport for my flight back to Houston. As I flew home, I thought about what a great visit it had been. I did not know that it would be the last.

On June 1, 1985, my mother died. My sons and I had flown home the day before after getting a call from my father telling me that she would not make it through the weekend. When we got to the hospital, she was so far gone that she was barely aware of anyone’s presence. The doctors had been asked to keep her as comfortable as possible and to “take no heroic measures” to keep her alive. My father and I wanted to allow her to be free of all that pain, no matter how hard it was for us to let her go. Saturday morning, she was gone.

One interesting aside is that I never received a bill for that airline ticket! I can only assume that the Lord sent the bill to “data heaven”, because it never came to me!

For the next ten years, every Mother’s Day, no matter how hard I tried not to, I would end up in tears for several hours, unable to get past my grief that was so closely associated with that final Mother’s Day visit with my mother. Every year, I’d tell myself I was past all that, and every year, something would happen to knock me off that tightrope of recovery from grief and slam dunk me back into mourning once again for my mother.

In 1995, my son and daughter-in-law were expecting their second child. The pregnancy was extremely difficult, and Trish was in and out of the hospital again and again. We were all living in southwest Missouri, near Branson. On Friday afternoon, May 12th, I had been into Branson to take something to my husband. Both he and my son were working on the Showboat Branson Belle. When I walked into my house, my neighbor and Trish were sitting at the dining room table… and Trish was wearing some of my “summer” sweat pants. One look at their faces told me that something hd shaken up both of them. I said, “What’s going on?” And in a trembling voice, Trish said, “My water broke.” My first words were, “It’s too soon!” The baby was not due for another 8½ weeks!

I grabbed the phone and called the Showboat office, telling the woman who answered to get Guy off the showboat and send him to Springfield, and that I’d meet him at the hospital with Trish. I knew the boat was out on a cruise, so I didn’t know how they would accomplish that feat. I later learned that they cut the cruise short to get Guy back to the dock – otherwise, I have no doubt he would have jumped ship and swam all the way back to shore!

I took the long route to the hospital, because the shortcut would have put me through far too many isolated areas, where I would be too far from help if I needed it. The long route would take me past two other hospitals and three small emergency clinics, so I’d be near help if Trish got into trouble. It took us over an hour to get to the hospital – I must say that it was the longest hour of my life!

Guy was pacing the sidewalk in front of the hospital when we drove up, and he quickly put Trish into a wheelchair and took her inside. After we got her settled into a labor room, I called the showboat again and told them to get my husband off the boat when it landed. His boss was the person who answered the phone, and – with a very cold voice – she told me that J.R. “has another cruise to do today”. I don’t recall exactly what my next words were, but J.R. said I apparently scared the wits out of his boss, because she had nearly yanked him off the boat, telling him to wait at the gate for “that wife of yours” to pick him up!

I made a fast trip to Branson, picked him up and then drove straight back to Springfield where we went straight to the labor room – but it was empty! Confused, we started looking around, and finally found Guy talking with a doctor. Trish had been rushed to surgery for an emergency c-section. The baby had the cord around her neck, and was going to die if they didn’t get her out. The problem was, it appeared she might die anyway.

Christian Kate was a very sick little girl when she was born. In fact, the doctor wasn’t giving us a lot of hope, and asked if we’d like to come into the NICU and hold her, with the implication that it might be our only chance. J.R. and I said no, that we could do her more good elsewhere. The doctor looked at us like we’d grown three heads, and went back into the NICU shaking her own head in confusion. We turned on our heels and headed for a bank of pay phones down the hall, where we began calling everyone whose phone number we could remember, asking them to pray for our little Christian Kate.

Two hours later, we were back at the NICU, and could see the doctor standing over Christian’s crib looking more confused than she had earlier. She glanced up and saw us, and came outside immediately. She said, “I don’t know what’s going on, but that baby is getting stronger by the moment!” We both grinned, and I said, “We know what’s going on. God’s answering a thousand prayers and healing our baby girl.”

Seven hours later, they took Christian off the ventilator because she was breathing on her own! And two weeks later, we took her home – six and a half weeks before her due date!

Two days after Christian was born, we were invited to scrub, don surgical gowns and go into the NICU where they would allow us to hold her. A little nervous because she was so tiny and there were so many wires and tubes attached to her tiny body, I sat in the rocking chair they’d placed next to her crib, and two nurses very carefully laid Christian in my arms for the very first time. It was Mother’s Day, 1995, and as I sat there holding that precious little life in my arms, I could feel God healing my heart that had been broken ten years earlier. In many more ways than one, Christian Kate is my miracle baby, the one that God brought into the world early so she could heal my heart.

Today, Christian is a very special young lady who lights up every room she enters, and touches the heart of every person she meets. She is warm and affectionate, and has a great sense of humor… and she doesn’t hesitate to laugh at herself when she has a “blonde moment”. She’s a straight “A” student, and attended the “All A’s” banquet to honor students at her school who have made all “A’s” this year. Next year she will be a Senior nd and all of her classes for next year are “Advanced Placement” classes except for Animation, including Biology 2, English 4, Spanish 4, Studio Art, and dual credit drafting and math classes. She was recently accepted to the National Honor Society and will be inducted soon. She is making application to become part of the Congressional Youth Advisory Council through U.S. Representative Pete Olson (R-Sugar Land). The past few years, she’s attended a young writer’s workshop during the summer, having been nominated for the workshop by one of her teachers. She’s won numerous academic awards, and is listed in Who’s Who of Academic Excellence. In fact, she has so many awards and honors, it’s impossible to keep up with them! Christian’s talents go far beyond academics. She just recently won a blue ribbon in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Art Competition. She has an incredible voice, has taught herself to play the guitar, and “stage fright” is a foreign concept for her!

Nine summers ago, she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior and was baptized. And today, her faith in Jesus is evident in everything she says and does and thinks… and she won’t hesitate one moment to share her faith with someone! Yesterday (Saturday, May 12) she celebrated her 17th birthday, and is taller than I am (she’s nearly 6 feet tall, with long pale blonde hair and big blue-green eyes!). She still fills my heart to overflowing every time I see her, because she is one of God’s special miracles in so many ways.

If your heart is hurting with a wound that just won’t seem to heal, be comforted with the knowledge that Jesus knows right where you are, and He weeps with you, matching you tear for tear. Tell him about your pain, even though He knows already, and ask Him to heal your heart in a special way, one that will bless you far beyond the loss that brought you pain. And as you wait for that healing, know that because you mourn you are blessed, and you will be comforted.
The LORD is gracious and righteous;
our God is full of compassion.
The LORD protects the simplehearted;
when I was in great need, he saved me.
Be at rest once more, O my soul,
for the LORD has been good to you.
For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before the LORD
in the land of the living.
Psalm 116:5-9

2012 Dogwood Ministries, Inc.


**edited by Staff**

 

[SadieSue]

Happy Mother's Day to anyone who has given birth to, raised, or mentored children in any way! And

to all missing their Moms today and every day...

I've already gotten my day off to a great start - first I heard from my daughter on Facebook that she has arrived safely in Italy, Florence and her apartment are beautiful, that she's very busy and she has blisters on her feet. I hope she can find some band aids.

I also woke up this morning to 4 pips out of my 6 Serama eggs and 4 pips on my Silkie eggs. I am hearing a lot of peeping and cheeping from one of the Seramas. I keep talking to her to give her encouragement - I'm sure no one else here has ever done that...

So hopefully by the end of the day I'll have some babies! Which reminds me, maybe I should go get the brooder set up. It's only day 20, so I wasn't quite as prepared as I could have been.

DH is off golfing - I've got the house to myself - it's a great day so far!

 

[Totalcolour]

Well Happy Mother's Day everyone!​

So, hope everyone is having a good time - we are still doing chores. Going to make himself a big farm-style breakfast as soon as I find him. Last seen rototilling.

DUCKS! Anyone in the market for Muscovy ducks? ​

We are getting rid of all but two drakes, and two ducks. These are all from last year's hatch, so still young although have been laying well. PM me if interested - I'll make a deal for BYC'ers! (I'm out of room in the freezers - just butchered 20 Cornish X and another 25 to go next weekend.)