Washingtonians

[ZoiChick]

Welcome ZoiChick!

I'm originally from California - grew up in the Bay Area, college at UC Davis, worked as a wildland firefighter out of the Georgetown Ranger District east of Auburn right in your neck of the woods, then worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird Research Center in Dixon, CA, then got a job in pharmaceutical research in Palo Alto. I couldn't afford to rent a shared room there, so I moved to Seattle in 93 and bought a house a year later!

My brother is a CHP officer and covers Auburn and Grass Valley. I go out your way at least once per year.

I LOVE the snow photo - beautiful with the sun!

welcome also

one of my high school boyfriends worked out of the Garden Valley ranger station during summers; for most of my high school years I was in Fair Oaks

but haven't been back that way in several years now

T Hi, please wish Daffy a very Happy Birthday! Love those [COLOR=FF0000]upright ducks![/COLOR]

Those are bowling pins on webbed feet ! ! ! !         


 

Hey Thanks Ogress and Kaneke. I love the Bay area and love being close to UCD. And Garden Valley is gorgeous too, really up in the faraway food hills. Lovely knowing some of you are familiar with my new home. I moved down here join a long time friend/husband/partner (a died in the wool Californian). It's really doubtful I'll ever get him to live in the rainy NW. He grew up in San Francisco and retired from the SF Police.

My goodness 19-20 hours from Gig Harbor to San Diego? Cowgirlgrace? You'r good. I've driven straight through from Monroe and then again from Issaquah to Grass Valley, but to San Diego? I'm impressed.

Ah the sun is out for a little bit and the Marans are happy it's not raining at least for awhile. These California Chickens and dogs don't know much about rain and I've dried out myself.

Cioppiono and hatching. You guys are killing me with jealousy. Starting over on undeveloped property this year, we still have fences and pen expansion to do for horses, dogs AND chickies before I'm allowed hatchlings. We must be crazy to start all over at this point in our lives. Ah well it will keep us young. I can't wait to hatch our first one of these days.

ZoiChick
who needs to get moving...
Cheers all.

 

[ZoiChick]

I LOVE the snow photo - beautiful with the sun!



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And Garden Valley is gorgeous too, really up in the faraway food hills.
I mean, FOOTHILLS!

The snow photo was taken by my brothers neighbor. It was SO gorgeous I wanted to share.

(And I agree CR, the ducklings "do" look a little like bowling pins )


ZoiChick
who needs to get moving...
Cheers all.

 

[SadieSue]

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Ditto - that is a great photo!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Good to know! I thought it would take much longer. Hmmm. There might be a road trip in my future - would love to meet all the Washingtonians!!!

Gotta go right past the best to get to the rest.

OK so ya gotta go by my place to get to the rest of the good folks who are nearly all North of me.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

I feel just awful.

One of our little Serama hens went broody just before it turned nasty-nasty cold...So I brough her in the house and set her up in a rubbermaid tote and away she went...she was probably about 2 weeks in to it. I have the 3 chicks that hatched from the eggs that Cloverleaf gave me....those babies are right at 4 weeks old. They have been in their brooder box in the other room....well, company was coming up. So i figured I put the brooder box with babies into the "extra" room with the broody momma. Well, when I came home today, went to check on everyone (food and water)....(that room is also housing a cat that broke her elbow)...and Martha the hen was not sitting on the eggs and she was pecking at them.

I think that she heard the peeping babies (1 month olds) and thought hers were ready to hatch. She is not in the least interested now...they have been uncovered for quite some time...as they seem a bit cold..I am sure they are dead. I feel bad for Martha the hen.Time wasted. Thought she had babies...only to have no babies. How heart breaking.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Hey, anyone had shoulder surgery, specifically for torn rotator cuff? What's the recovery time like?

Only shoulder surgery I've had was when I came off a fast horse and hit the hard ground...broke the ball off the end of the humerus and dislocated it. 5 1/2 hour surgery to put in pins that I had in for 6 weeks, then a shorter surgery to remove them. Once I got the pins out I did away with the sling, but I had PT for 3-4 months to work on range of motion and strengthening. Ended up having to go back to PT a few years later because I was over protective of it and the muscles were atrophying. No matter what the shoulder issues, PT is the key. DO the excercises religiously...DON'T want to have to start over like I did!!

 

[Chickielady]

Wow, I finally caught up...only 7 pages ?
I have to go to town & open an account at the Credit Union, then after auto deposit next month I can close the B of A account as they have yet devised another way to add fees:
Minimum $300 in your savings or get a fee of $5.
This is a brand NEW fee, never had it before.

They have attached 2 or 3 other NEW fees to DH's account....after he added over $300 to his savings, they taked him for $5 fee to use his ATM at stores as he does not have auto deposit.
Imagine !
They also tacked him $7 a month for using the bank teller instead of the ATM machine outside, and another fee for some other poop..oh yeah it was for the mailed checking statement, they charge a fee for that now, too, and treid to get him to do "on line" banking there by he would need no paper statement mailed.
He said he did not want either paper OR on line. But they will not do that, it is sign up on line & stop the paper statement or get another fee !!!!!!! .total fees were about $20
This can add up every month (and you never know what day they take the fees out of your account) & CAN deduct enough funds as to put your account into the NSF category & then they bounce your checks and really nail you!
I have had it with B of A.
I hate messing with them.
I have seriously been expecting a fee for every paypal deposit/withdrawal...that will be next.

 

[Chickielady]

Only shoulder surgery I've had was when I came off a fast horse and hit the hard ground...broke the ball off the end of the humerus and dislocated it. 5 1/2 hour surgery to put in pins that I had in for 6 weeks, then a shorter surgery to remove them. Once I got the pins out I did away with the sling, but I had PT for 3-4 months to work on range of motion and strengthening. Ended up having to go back to PT a few years later because I was over protective of it and the muscles were atrophying. No matter what the shoulder issues, PT is the key. DO the excercises religiously...DON'T want to have to start over like I did!!

Same with the knees !
That is why I got up & moving & took the brace off ASAP and within a week was walking no crutches & so on.

 

[Chickielady]

By Nature :
The neighbor man's kids are varying shades of uselessness.
The son was a user/and on SSD for some unknown brain/thought issue.
Although he acted & looked normal to us, he got his check monthly & lived off the parents and was up ALL night partying & never paid a penny to his parents for rent (in the double wide) nor utilities.
So the parents got stuck with a loss in rent and all the utilities to support the creep.
When the man finally went into foreclosure, the idiot son hauled buns to Tennessee with his equally user-friendly gal pal.
When the ship sank, they ran to mootch off of her relatives.
We were so glad he left !!!
The other 2 kids are grown daughters that picked out a few things but have too much of their own.
So stuff sits there.

 

[ReiMiraa]

Hey, anyone had shoulder surgery, specifically for torn rotator cuff? What's the recovery time like?

my dad slipped on ice almost 10 years ago and has a torn rotator cuff.... he takes cortizone shots for it and for the skin problem on his hands to handle the pain...

the problem with the surgery is that it is not very successful... most baseball pitchers have it... but dad is 50 and at the older age the recovery might cause more damage than before.
Sometimes i wish he had it cause he has days where i have had to try and get ice and heat packs wrapped around his shoulder (my dad is tall and none of those "shoulder" pack things fit.
poor dad, farming has worn his body out. farming wears everyone's body out. just see the old farmers in our area. that is one thing most people don't realize. farming and the stress, shortens the lifespan.
it always scares me because my parents are older than most..... i realize i may have less than 15 years left to spend with my dad... males in his bloodline don't live past 70...