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[Ogress]

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I've got to join you there for "Debt free" (other than the mortgage). I will not be able to attain it this year, but if I am very careful this year, I should be able to get there in 2 or three. The other thing I want to do is de-clutter my life; both of things and complicated people. I spend too much time sorting through crap I don't need. Can't join you in the ship yards though, I need to be here for my kids so I work while they are at school.

 

[Rainwolf]

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Hey when you figure out your feed formula, can you pm me with it?? I too am looking to create my own feed for my goats, I've been pouring over my dairy goat books, and reading stuff online, and would like to find an economical but, quality feed source. I've never heard of duck weed??

Duckweed or Lemnoideae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnoideae

Duckweed is an important high-protein food source for waterfowl and also is eaten by humans in some parts of Southeast Asia. It contains more protein than soybeans.

When conditions are ideal, in terms of water temperature, pH, incident light and nutrient concentrations they compete in terms of biomass production with the most vigorous photosynthetic terrestrial plants doubling their biomass in between 16 hours and 2 days, depending on conditions.

 

[jbear]

jenbird--i stole that quote too..

awesome points to ponder and remember...

Haller, I am sorry the past year, and the next will be tough for you and your family. Your chickie friends are here for you when you need someone to lean on.

Hope everyone had a safe and fun evening.

 

[cowchick11]

Happy New Year!

Movies and pizza with friends I don't get to see very often.
It is so nice here today, 50 degrees. Now that I read through some posts and found a Spring Swap in Oregon!!! I have to go outside and get some work done in this heatwave!

 

[Ogress]

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My parents were horders. After dad passed away, we helped Mom move from a 3,500 Square foot house to a 1200 square foot house. We rented the biggest dumpster available and went through the house and the shop one room at a time. We had to do it when mom was not home as she'd rescue the crap from the dumpster. Dad could not throw out a paint can if it had more than an inch of paint in it - we found many cans of paint dating from the early 60's with pictures of beehived housewives in pearls and an apron working in their kitchens on the labels of the paint cans. We found no les than 39 sets of Allen wrenches. seems whenever Dad would need a wrench, he'd buy a new one rather than search though his mess. Mom was a horder of towels, blankets, canned fod - things she ran out of living in a Nazi occupied town in Holland as a little girl. She also hoarded plastic margargine tubs, deli conatainers, etc...

Now I'm a hoarder. I really need to get rid of all my college books and class notes - It's not like they will ever be used again.... and hunks of fabric, sewing notions, scrap-book stuff (last thing I put in a scrap book was Alex getting on the school-bus in first grade. He's in 7t grae now.), beading stuff.....

 

[Ogress]

Hmmmm - I wish there was a weekly summary of posts on this site. I missed almost everything between Christmas and New years and most between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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We were lucky to have his cousin Cinder there, but it was also our second time around- we (mostly I) cleaned the rectory in Hollywood when the FIL retired in 1983, including getting rid of clothing and grocery lists and sacks of unsorted receipts that my late MIL left behind when she died in 1980. There are still unsorted boxes which Bekin's packed for him after we left with the horrible UHaul (he insisted we come down and help him move when DH had three weeks of spring quarter left, so the FIL's books, papers, and personal stuff were left behind for the professionals to ship to Waco) that sat unopened in the dining room in Waco until after he died in 1997. Trying to get everything sorted and cleaned and properly stored is an ongoing problem that I don't want to leaved to my kids but nobody with the R gene ever throws anything out without the emotional equivalent of a city-buster bomb, and I've run out of TNT these days.

Human beings, what can you do about them?

Both my husbands have lived in terror of me becoming my mother. A little clutter and they panic.

I'm looking at the bookcases in the back bedrooms and thinking how wonderful it will be when I have all my beads and stuff in one place sorted and properly contained again. There was a time long ago (ending when I had that second offspring, the cute little agent of chaos) where everything was in its place and the floors were mopped once a week without fail, et'c. I long in a soppily sentimental way for the days when I didn't spend my days on housework triage.

Speaking of which, they're HEEEEEEErrrrre to do laundry. Must be instructive or something.

 

[Chickielady]

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I'm at work so can not check email until late.... if you pm me the list I might be able to go through while slow at work.

Maybe can try & copy paste....

 

[Chickielady]

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Hey when you figure out your feed formula, can you pm me with it?? I too am looking to create my own feed for my goats, I've been pouring over my dairy goat books, and reading stuff online, and would like to find an economical but, quality feed source. I've never heard of duck weed??

Duckweed or Lemnoideae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnoideae

Duckweed is an important high-protein food source for waterfowl and also is eaten by humans in some parts of Southeast Asia. It contains more protein than soybeans.

When conditions are ideal, in terms of water temperature, pH, incident light and nutrient concentrations they compete in terms of biomass production with the most vigorous photosynthetic terrestrial plants doubling their biomass in between 16 hours and 2 days, depending on conditions.

I used to have watercress all over around our ponds, birds, ducks & the koi loved it & it regrew quickly.
here in WA, the ground is damp enough to grow quite a few varieties, and you will like it too!

 

[Chickielady]

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We went through a closet on Christmas day. It's not much but it's a start.

What if one sibling takes dad out to lunch...or Brunch...and the rest of you grab stuff & run??
be very gone when he gets home.
I doubt if he will notice the deeply stored stuff as missing.
DH's Mom that past like a bolt of lightening last summer was a hoarder all her life.
After she passed, DH, all 4 of his kids, DH's sister & many others came to help FiL clean everything.....His Mom had saved everything imaginable from margarine lids to coke bottle caps to state quarters (a set for each grandchild) and ALL the stuff from her Mother when she passed who was also a hoarder...but at least her Mother had nice stuff, lots of crystal, stemware, goblets, serving pieces fine enough for the Queen Mum..........pots pans, silverware (real) and then the clothes.hobby stuff (pipe cleaners, yard, chrocet stuff, yards of fabric....all sorts of crafty stuff.........yikes, it took the army weeks and they found several thousand dollars MiL had tucked away~~~~~~~~~