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[Rainwolf]

Awesome! what heat mats do you use?

I think these are the ones. Expensive, but well worth the money, if you take care of them.

http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/...opagation-mat-22in_-_-60in_/heat-mats-seeding

Those are nice! I'm still working on making my own sorta heat mat/hot box... so far cold 1 me 0 sigh... next round....

 

[Zgoatlady]

So our DD and DSiL are off to New York for a vacation. So I get to babysit their little darlings.





This is our grandbaby Nala she is a very nervous nelly. I hope she settles down some.


Here she is looking at the puppies.


It's rather terrifying to watch all the puppies together with Nala. Poor Nala is only 6 or 7 months old her self. She just doesn't understand how much bigger she is compared to the nasty little puppies.

She is so cute and those legs. Sorry I havent called you back, lots of kids stuff going on..

 

[Zgoatlady]

Well I am outta here, got started birds argueing...almost time to drop them head first into the Bachelor pad....................

Got dinner to warm up, taco Tuesday rears it's head once again tonight !!
Made a big venison ?Mushroom stew today................
And Tamara...if you've time, I am looking for a juicer, what do you recommend ?

Ive had people tell me the Champion Juicer, that way you get the pulp stuff to I guess and its really the best part. I dont have one but Im thinking of getting one. They have them on Craigs all the time.

 

[Zgoatlady]

This is Hilary Stag::::::::::::::::::::


http://www.youtube.com/results?hl=e...sb&biw=1280&bih=909&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=w1

Those of us who paint or work in the arts will apreciate his awesome work, I LOVE his album (CD) Dream Spiral............and OGRESS::: Let DD listen !!!!!!!!!

Oh Oh on my first song, its so NICE. Im the person who will listen to this all day long... I use to be in Orch played the flute, my Mom was trying to find a place for me to learn how to paly the harp so we could get one. I do like other music but love this... Thank you

 

[Zgoatlady]

I hope it turns out well for everyone and that your school does a better job at lockdown than ours. Maybe the staff will keep them entertained so they are not thinking about it.

Both my kids were in lockdown a 3 years ago when they were in 2nd and 4th grade. They were out waiting for the school bus, all the buses had left already except for the one my kids take. They had just gotten on the bus when someone spotted some boisterous teens from the neighboring alternative High School walking toward the playground with what appeared to be a gun. The principal had the kids walk from the bus to a classroom in which the entire long wall was made of windows that faced the playground. Why he thought this was a good idea is beyond me - why not an interior classroom with windows to the courtyard, or the gym or a windowless room? All the remaining students and a few staff were in the room, duck-and-cover earthquake style under the desks. I think there were only about a dozen students. The principal and office staff were in the office. NO ONE BOTHERED TO CALL THE PARENTS!!! I was wondering why the bus was so late and was calling the district office who knew NOTHING. No one was keeping a close eye on the kids in the classroom, because my way too curious DS got up and walked to the windows and watched all unfold. She said she saw the teens run onto the playground with their gun, and a whole bunch of men in vests sneaking running and hiding around the school grounds with their guns out and pointed toward the teens.

The bus finally brought my kids home an hour late with NO EXPLANATION! I had to do an internet search of the local newspaper that evening to verify what my kids were telling me. Later in the evening I got some short call, I think it may have even been recorded and it was the same call that went out to all the parents of kids who attend the school. Nothing specific to the parents of the few kids who were there at the time. There was no mention of men with guns drawn or anything. The ink to the newspaper article is below. I was volunteering at the school the next day and I told my daughter's 2nd grade teacher what Olivia said she saw. I was told she was lying, that no kids ever saw the gun, and Olivia never went to the window because they kept all the kids safely hidden. Later in the day, the teacher went into the teachers lounge and repeated what I told her Olivia saw. She came back and said Olivia's observation was true. A SWAT team had been called out, some of the police were plain-clothes, and they pretty much surrounded the schools. She was sent to the school counselor and told not to repeat what she saw to anyone as it might scare the kids! I was furious! I wated to know why the parents were not called. I was told the principal and office staff could not access the list of kids who ride that bus, nor could they get to a phone from where they were hiding (yet they thought it was fine to put the kids in the room with a wall of windows facing the playground!).

The blinds they mention in the newspaper article below are in the office. I don't recall seeing any blinds in the classroom. Certainly they were not down if Olivia watched it all unfold.

http://snovalleystar.com/2009/01/28/fake-gun-scare-causes-school-lockdown

I cant belive they didnt put the blinds down. When my oldest son was in 1st grade I think it was they had a lock down when we brought our kids to school. I asked they what was going on they didnt tell me. I called the school when I got home and asked again. They than told me that a little girls almost got taken going to school. Oh No I said than I asked them if the guy looked like this and told them someone was in my neighborhood and they put me straight through to the police. You got it I say the guy, now if they would have told me at the school they would have knowen where he was right than. They did get him , he was a teenager. That scared the daylights out of me, I got more involved with the school than so I knew what and when things were going on. With the blinds thats all the teacher!!!! If they didnt have blinds the kids should have been moved...

 

[Zgoatlady]

Okay, before I got distracted by School Lockdowns and Harp music (DD plays the harp):

Best Egg Day Yet:

24!!!!!!


including the DARKEST BCM egg I have ever seen with a purplish haze over it; beautiful!​

Nice, was the BCM egg from my girl?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I think if My BCM's vanish, Fudge will have a new home here, and in his place you will find a whole choir of bantam roosters!

Too bad Fudge can't lay an egg.

And who ever said he can't ? There are many reasons I like him so much. Ya know rooster are quite rare and very valuable.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: NO I haven't started showing (yet). And Fudge is the only Fav I have. Cloverleaf Farm (Jeanine) in Canby is one source that I know.
I am having my hands full and too much fun making and selling the metal work.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Well my son is moving home and his wife is going to her Moms house. They are separating and going to try and work on themselves it sounds like and date one day a week. Its hard to see them hurt, both of them. So now I have to get my you know what busy cleaning out the spare room to move all the kids around. Its going to be crazy here for awhile. But I'm glad I can help him, and help him get better. Now do I keep the wedding pictures out or put them all away? I don't want him to hurt and I don't want her to think I hate her when she comes over and see's them down...

I'm the one in the family who trys to make everyone feel good and it about kills me some times. My Mom use to call me sunshine and bright eye because I always try to find the good in every thing. I'm not so sunny right now and need to find that place for him. But I do know he needs to see me hurting too. That's were I went wrong when he was young.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Now do I keep the wedding pictures out or put them all away? I don't want him to hurt and I don't want her to think I hate her when she comes over and see's them down...

I'm not so sunny right now and need to find that place for him. But I do know he needs to see me hurting too. That's were I went wrong when he was young.

OK not that I have any good answers. But since it sounds like you are asking for ideas.
I would leave the pics up. They will serve to remind those involved what they had and are working to repair. As a reminder of the happy, good times. Of course there are not so happy, good times but if those are the focus then how can things get happy and good again. Also unless DIL has done you wrong she still deserves your respect. And if worst case they can't work it out keep in mind that what happened was between them not between you and her. Unless of course she does you wrong.

Not that any of this is right or that it will help. It is just my feelings about what you relayed and seemed to be asking opinions on.
Best of luck to all of you.