Washingtonians

[KMHunter]

I have a friend who has a Mottled Houdan Rooster that they have to get rid of. Anyone interested? They said he is really sweet and their favorite, so they would like him to go to a good home, not a freezer. PM me if interested.

Thanks!

 

[jbear]

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What a perfect wave! Now there's a photo begging to be painted. We saw a lot of those Hawaiian chickens when we were on Kawaii a few years ago. I thought it was pretty cool, but never considered how full of undesirable stuff they must be.

i thought the same thing when I saw that wave picture-- so pretty.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Okay, your squash/pumpkin plants have the yellowed leaves. I have read this this is some form of an airborne fungus. Is this your feeling? what do you think it is caused from.

We have a huge pumpkin plant that is a free growth in my compost pile. It has 3 tremendously large pumpkins on it. Crazy plant.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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that is absolutely fantastic....I can barely write my name legible and I had a grandmother who was an award winning oil painter and also with charcoal and water colors.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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speaking of CR....did we ever hear what the surprise was that he was waiting for from the brown man? I may have missed it.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Heather has Houdans.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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speaking of CR....did we ever hear what the surprise was that he was waiting for from the brown man? I may have missed it.

It was T Hi getting back online.

 

[Illia]

Wow those Squash look sick

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Lovely, so glad to here things are approaching normal!

 

[Ogress]

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Ditto Ogress and Kim - I wanted so badly to be able to feed my own baby, but Lily was a "lazy" eater and would fall sleep soon after I would start feeding her because it was too much work and that baby LOVED to sleep. I saw a lactation consultant and you don't even want to know how that went. She was enlisting the help of my bff who had moved in with us to cook and help out the first two weeks after Lily was born and frankly, having my gf helping with the breast feeding was just getting a little too weird even for us.

I had also had a C-section and when my baby was still losing weight after almost 2 weeks, my overwhelming feeling of failing her because I couldn't feed her right, guilt from DH's corner because formula "was expensive", combined with a little post-partem depression wasn't a good combination. My gf and mother stepped in and said, "it's time you get over it and start feeding that baby formula". It was a whole new world after that. I felt better, DH had to learn to shut his trap and Lily started gaining weight like a champ, sleeping for 3 hours at a time, waking up to eat and play and going back to sleep for another 3 hour nap.

I hate when people or organizations try to make you feel bad for not being able to feed your baby. If it works, then great!

Eeek! that would freak me out too! With Alex I had so much they were trying to get me to pump for a woman in the same class who had AIDS and could not nurse her own baby. They even had the woman come and talk to me to get me to change my mind. That poor lady, she thought her child would become very ill without breast milk. She already had so much to worry about, and for them to saddle her with breast-feeding guilt was just criminal (apparently the medical opinion on feeding other peoples breast milk changed between my 2 kids).

My DD was the same way as Sadie Sue's. I tried so hard, but she was losing so much weight. She was nearly a month old before she was back up to her birth weight. The lactation consultant said it was because I was confusing her by offering both, taped some stupid piece of tubing to my b**b that was attached to a syringe of formula and then she tried squishing me like she was milking a cow! That was enough! I ripped the thing off, took Olivia and left and refused to let their "home consultant" give me a visit when I didn't show up for my next appointment. The pediatrician was glad, I said it would have helped me make the decision earlier had he let me know when Olivia was first born and he saw we were having trouble. I think they have an agreement with the hospital to push breast-feeding. He admitted to me that when his son was born and his wife was so exhausted that he fixed a bottle of formula at the hospital so she could sleep. He was chewed out for it because they were afraid that some of the patients may recognize him and see that he was giving his child formula.

A few weeks later, I saw a Law and Order episode where a baby starved to death while the mother was breast-feeding, and the lactation consultants in there were like the ones I had experienced; just awful. I kept thinking that could have been Olivia had I stuck to the agreement I was coerced into making with the lactation consultant.