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[Ogress]

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Yuck!

I think we're scaring RFF with our stories! (Like the idea of the babyshower pool btw)

Alex discovered painting too, but with blood. I left a retractable tape measure out where he could reach when he was 18 months. I was in the next room doing laundry when I heard the thing snap in, and the loudest scream and crying that almost instantly turned to laughing. The tape measure had cut his finger. It was not a very big cut, but it was gushing blood, and he was fingerpainting the table. I cleaned him up, put a bandaid on which he immediately pulled off to access more paint. He did this multiple times, and I could not get him to stop! he was finger painting the walls, and everything else he could reach. Exasperated, I scooped him up and took him the the pediatrician's office which was closed for lunch, so I walked into the ER next door, to everyone gasping ..." poor thing", "were you in a car accident?""Get them to the front of the line." I assured them it was nothing but a tiny cut, but apparently Alex had covered me with his blood too. I was told the ER bill would be high if he was treated there, so I went back out to the hallway and was going to wait for the pediatric office top open again when one of the doctors came out and started laughing (he got a call from the ER). He cleaned Alex's hand and put a little butterfly closure on his fingers with instructions not to go home ...."He needs to be distracted long enough for that to dry up. Take him to the park, only you can't go to the park looking like you do, you'll scare more people. Take him to a friend's house." That worked, until he skinned his knee a few weeks later. Luckily it was just those 2 times that he "painted" things.

 

[Ogress]

So what does it mean if you went to Ikea and had Swedish meatballs and coconut curry soup for New Years? Probably bad luck. The box I brought home that I thought was going to be a narrow metal set of drawers turned out to be a shelf to go in a kitchen cabinet.

DH is downstaris now doing this:

while trying to assemble a shoe rack. I assembled a desk and chair last night without the big show. He can't do anything without letting everyone know how displeased he is about the stoooopid directions.

Relax Dude!

 

[TifsBroodyBabes]

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I can't even walk into Ikea without breaking out in a sweat and cursing everyone that walks by me.I love to buy stuff from there but I hate going there.I have a niece that lives in Auburn that loves to take her kids there and eats at the cafe on Saturdays,so she calls me and I look through my catalog or online and give her my order and she brings it to me.My kinda shopping!!! I feel like I can never get out of that store once I'm in there.
My husband is the same way -makin a big deal out of putting things together from a box!!! He likes making things from wood and he hates following directions. He has made me some cool corner shelves and birdhouses and feeders,patio furniture, potting benches and so on but those furniture in a box things he flips!!! Whatever!!!
I just leave it in the car until he goes to work then I put it together or have my brother help me.Atleast that way when someone asks me where a tool is I dont get crabby and say "Hey,they're YOUR tools where did YOU put them last!"

 

[jbear]

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LOL !!!!

Luckily you don't have a photo of that; they would be so embarassed if you had a moving out party, complete with a slideshow of them growing up! (Something I plan to do ...) I have not written my annual letter in 3 years, but going to try and catch up this year. I try and include some of the funny stories and photos. I have some gems! There's one from this year that I'm not sure I should include in the letter as I sure my son will be embarassed soon. I can put it here though (maybe I already have?):

DS is in 6th grade and turned 12 in October. He is growing very fast ... already over 6 feet tall and size 14 shoes! He also has high functioning autism, and is a bit naieve. When he joined the wrestling team, I sent my husband to Sports Authority to look for shoes and such. Alex came to me with some protective gear laughing his head off: "Apparently Dad thinks something else is growing as fast as the rest of me!" So the boy has not hit puberty yet.

The shoes were funny too. No store stocks size 14 wrestling shoes. You have to get them online. The team has green and black unitards (likely the least attractive clothing item ever invented) and black shoes with white stripes. In size 14, I could find red shoes (for the Holiday look), Sparkly gold and black ($180), and Sparkly silver with neon blue soles ($79 ... cheapest, therefore the ones he got). If you are going to have big feet, wear them with pride! Because he is so big, he wrestels the 8th grade boys from his school. I noticed a lot of 8th grade girls cheering for him. I asked him how so many girls already know who he is, is it his height? He answered, "No, everyone knows who I am; it is my shoe size!" He does not know what they say about shoe size ....

{i do have a picture--it is pre digital, so not on the computer. I should scan it.

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[Ogress]

TBB - That's my kinda shopping too ... I go about every 18 months! Your toolbox sounds like ourS No one ever knows where it is! I put a second one together and hid it in the laundry room, but now everyone knows where it is kept, so DH and DS borrow it and neglect to put it back. I'm going to make a third and store it in the shed at the up-hill end of our property. Because it is a trek, I think they will be too lazy to get their tools from it, and may even locate the laundry-room toolbox again; and I will have my tools if I need them! I'm going to try to build a coop come spring!

 

[CIgal]

Found our very first egg from our 20 week blue buff Easter Egger "Bunny".

 

[ReiMiraa]

This morning when i went to check on the rooster and he had turned around in the kennel during the night and was facing away from the food and water. the water wasn't touched.

i brought him out and tried moving his leg some, it didn't feel as swollen but i couldn't move it as well as yesterday. He was able to put some weight but soon sat down.
his poo is liquid green.

i decided after checking this site to crush up 325mg and mix in a little feed. couldn't get him to eat hardly any of it. it felt like he had ~1/4 cup already in his crop.

so i added more straw and fresh water (dog bowls) and placed him facing them back in. he tried to hop away when my dad came in, but then hopped into the kennel and had to turn him around. after he settled in he started drinking water like crazy. 10 minutes later i refilled the dog bowl because he drank it half down and he nibbled on some chicken feed. i dumped the crushed asprin on top of the feed closest to him. i will redose him 325mg again tonight. i think it helps to have him have a view of the large chicks i have in the pen across from him. their youthful energy i think is contagious.

on a dimmer note i guess from not having access to food and water a few days and not being able to roost under the heat lamp. this morning i noticed half his crest is black, it is warm feeling so there is circulation going on, but i think he got frostbitten, it didn't look that way last night.

he didn't get that while in the kennel last night because the kennel is in a cabin that is kept at 80F.

He seems to have better energy today and hopefully the painkiller will help and the fact he is drinking tons of water will have him bounce back. I need to find someone who can try and put the leg back in the joint, if it hasn't already healed too much dislocated. I tried pushing it back in firmer and tried rotating his leg and moving it some to circulate blood flow. and when i placed him back in i made sure to have his leg tucked under him with his weight pushing on it, instead of him having it stick out sideways. I am hoping his weight might encourage slow pressure on having it pop back in, but when i moved his leg trying for full movement hoping it might pop back in like some sites said i didn't get the effect.


This is a good link someone provided for me. It gives a good guide on how to dose and adminster pain killer. it also has other facts about correcting leg issues. Most of the corrections are for chicks.
https://sites.google.com/a/larsencreek.com/chicken-orthopedics/leg-braces

 

[tropicalchicken]

Hello to everyone. I have a question about moving to Washington. My husband and I have been going through some major financial problems with a failed business and mounting bills, which led to us filing a chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy in November. We will finally be discharged near the end of February and will need to vacate our home by May 15th.

I have a sister who lives in Kitsap County and would like to be near where she is when the time comes. I will be talking with her more as time goes on about the area, but I have not mentioned to anyone in my family the financial difficulties we have encountered.

I am wondering what the rental situation is like in this area, I know the bankruptcy is going to hurt us in finding a place, but my husband has a good retirement and once everything is discharged we will not have any debts left to pay.

Any advice, or thoughts on this area of Washington would be appreciated.

Please no bashing about the bankruptcy, this is an area of our lives that has almost caused both of us to have a nervous breakdown as we never expected this, especially at our age. We have already lost everything, and making the decision to go this route was the worst thing we have ever had to do in our 30+ years of marriage. We just want to get away from here and start fresh somewhere else.

Thank you

 

[hallerlake]

I wouldn't dream of bashing you. The economic crash caught a lot of people by surprise. Many people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth....or losing it all.

Stay away from Seattle. Housing and everything else is ungodly expensive.



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[hallerlake]

Koreans also bury it in the ground, or at least they used to. I haven't lived there in thirty years.

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Toilet Paper soup is some soup that my ex ran into in Tailand (along with Kim Chee which the native people there would put in a jug and bury in their yards) the toilet paper was a type of rice noodle, thin and floaty that looks like T-paper