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[RustyHen]

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Ya see, CR, you DO have a heart of gold, and we are sure glad you are here! Sending up prayer that your back will be better real soon. Do you have Aleve? That always helps when I tweak my back (although mine is just old muscles, not spinal). Hope you find relief soon.

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[hallerlake]

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Oo, I like Celeste! lol

might I suggest giving a girl a "traditional" sort of name that has multiple nicknames? then she will be fine as an adult with a "serious" name should she decide to enter the workplace, yet she will be fine with a shortened name that fits her better ..

you know, Elizabeth, Barbara, Katherine (I'd stay away from too many C names, but that's just me), Theresa, Margaret, et cetera

watch out to make sure her initials don't spell anything embarrassing (almost happened to me, I had to quick-change a chosen middle name for DS #2) -- and yell the full name out a few times to see if it sounds okay when you later yell out the back door ....

 

[hallerlake]

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might I suggest giving a girl a "traditional" sort of name that has multiple nicknames? then she will be fine as an adult with a "serious" name should she decide to enter the workplace, yet she will be fine with a shortened name that fits her better ..

you know, Elizabeth, Barbara, Katherine (I'd stay away from too many C names, but that's just me), Theresa, Margaret, et cetera

watch out to make sure her initials don't spell anything embarrassing (almost happened to me, I had to quick-change a chosen middle name for DS #2) -- and yell the full name out a few times to see if it sounds okay when you later yell out the back door ....

I did that with Chloe's name. Yell it out I mean. Chloe elizabeth. Im so glad I did too, because Im yelling it ALL the time. lol Or at least I feel like I yell it out allot. lol

One name I have been tossing around in my head is Stephene, spelt wrong on purpose. But I cant seem to come up with a middle name that fits. But if I decide on stephene, then I need to keep it a secret, because the baby would be named after her god mother, and my best frind of 28 years... Would want that to be a surprise.

Don't do it. She'll be explaining how to spell her name the rest of her life. Been there. Done that.

 

[hallerlake]

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I did that with Chloe's name. Yell it out I mean. Chloe elizabeth. Im so glad I did too, because Im yelling it ALL the time. lol Or at least I feel like I yell it out allot. lol

One name I have been tossing around in my head is Stephene, spelt wrong on purpose. But I cant seem to come up with a middle name that fits. But if I decide on stephene, then I need to keep it a secret, because the baby would be named after her god mother, and my best frind of 28 years... Would want that to be a surprise.

as I've told a couple other people -- if you use an unusual spelling for a name, be prepared for the child to be frustrated at having to SPELL their name for many many people for the rest of their life

if you pick a name that isn't obvious as to sex, it can be awkward for the child later on

*** now I got loaded with a "family name" which is easy to mispronounce if you see it (almost everyone does), easy to misspell if you hear it, and way too close to an ethnic male name ... wasn't until I was a sophomore in college, going through sorority rush, that I finally switched to a nickname I'd been given back in 5th grade (and I was no longer living at home)

so my boys got fairly common names, and they say they like them

I remember going through roll call at school. When they got to my name, they used my last name rather than try to pronounce Deirdre.

 

[RustyHen]

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A Charlotte is what I found on the very last pull of old tomato vines last week. She went scurrying off just under my hand, I dropped they vines.

and looked all over for her eggs, but could not find any. Could not make myself go back for 2 days. I could just feel those baby spiders crawling up my arms.... eeeek!

 

[Jake Levi]

CR that looks a lot like some we used to find all the time in our gardens by the tomatoes in upstate NY, but I am sure I have never seen that one, do you know what kind that it is? How big? I am not much on spiders but 'inherited' a tarantula once from another grad student who finished and couldnt take it with him. I had it for a year or more after, in the same little cubbyhole office they had for working grad students. AKA 'the dungeons'. It seemed a suitable place for 'alice' he/she was called.

Back to chickens , how many here have Buckeyes? I am thinking of adding them this spring.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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It is called (get this ) black and yellow garden spider. About 1"

I think but not sure that Chickielady has buckeye.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Yes I changed my av again so here is a pick that is a little easier to see. Hey (some of) the LADIES said they wanted to see pics of it ! ! !

 

[Jake Levi]

CR thats just what our NY black and yellow spider is called ! I dont remember those markings though ! When I was a kid I used to squash them but by HS I found them interesting and used to move them out of the way. They were always making big webs overnight between tomato plants.

I am going to ask Robin about her Buckeyes, she has Icelandics too. I am planning to add several new breeds this spring, old heritage homesteader breeds. Wish I could do more but several more will be plenty with everything else going on. Plus having to build the shed for them.

 

[SadieSue]

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What do you have hatching Illia? And how are those Araucana babies?