Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[bobbi-j]

Well, time for me to get my lunch made and clothes out for tomorrow. It will be interesting as this will be my first year not having a student in the elementary wing of our school. I'll have a high schooler in the morning, and middle schooler in the afternoon. No playground time on the nice days! But then, no playground time in the winter, either! Have a great rest of the night, everyone!

 

[orrpeople]

awesome.... My son is graduating college in December... BA in Geology Probably the first Bachelor of ARts in Geology in many years.... LOL. Minor is English. He has Professor in the English department ready to write a letter of recommendation to Go for his MFA in Creative Writing.

I don't know if he wants to go to more college, But he has a gift of Taking science understanding its nuance and translating it into layman's terms without being condescending.

Nothing wrong with Taco Bell Transactions.... LOL.

deb

That's great! Congratulations to your boy! What are his long-term goals?
I'm the lowest rung on the professorial ladder - I only have two classes and one was cancelled because enrollment is down. So this semester I will just have my class for the students who did not get into English 1A - all freshmen... 90% athletes. It's all good.

 

[WVduckchick]

Hi, WV... haven't been posting much either, lol...
How're you feeling after all that tile work?

Back is sore, but it seems to stay that way these days. So i just go with the flow.

 

[chickencheeper]

I like to start my day with a good cup of coffee and usually go to bed after my favorite adult beverage.

In between waking and sleeping, I enjoy chatting with friends about chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, goats, and all our fine feathered friends. And even our 4 legged furry friends!

So I thought I would start my own thread where friends can get together, share stories and pictures (I love pics!) about pretty much anything going on in our lives. Even "real work", if we must. My only preference is to avoid politics and religion. Those usually just start arguments and/or hard feelings and this should be an enjoyable retreat!

So.... a few things that I like: Hatching!! Basically anything that can come out of an egg. I'm an admitted hatch-aholic, with no desire to change at this point. So far, I have hatched ducks, turkey, bantam chickens, large fowl chickens, and quail. I also enjoy learning about taking care of these animals and all that goes with that! I like selling eggs and chicks, and hope to someday make more of a business of this thing that I have fallen in love with over the past year or so.

But besides chickens (et. al.), which takes up a lot of my time now, I also enjoy sewing, quilting, woodworking, building stuff, cars, guns, hunting, fishing, photography, cooking, gardening, movies, television, windows, sludge, gutters, frogs, monkeys, and squirrels! just to name a few things. (Oh look... squirrel!)...

Oh, where was I? I got lost, but that's nothing new to those who know me.

Anyway, feel free to paddle on out to the middle where the bar is, or hang out on the bank and watch. Just please don't try walking on the water. It may look solid, but its probably not.

So, yesterday evening my neighbor's dog showed up at his front door with a baby cottontail bunny in its mouth(we have a lot around here) the bunny appeared to be fine but it was covered in saliva and it was raining out(hypothermia) so we made sure that it wasn't bleeding(it wasn't) we let it hop off when it was ready and left it alone, but an hour later my neighbor came to the door and told us(since he knows that we love wildlife and animals) that the adult rabbits were going up to it and running away frightened(abandoning it) and it was shivering and since it was a rainy night we brought the little bun inside and put it in a large container that we used for brooding chicks with the heat lamp on a whole bunch of blankets and hay and food and water in the basement. The next morning I woke up, went down stairs to the basement and to my shock the bunny was gone! We searched high and low all over our basement but no luck, we spread flour out(in hopes of tracking it, no luck, we even opened the door for almost 3 hours but still no bunny. So I went on with my daily routine with the basement door wide open. I cleaned out the chicken coop. And to finish it off I grabbed a trash bag of straw(we have about ten of them to make using the bale easier) that we keep inter basement and took it out to the chicken run to spread it out as usual and I started to dump the straw onto the ground inside the run when out of nowhere the bunny shot out of the bag and slipped though the wire out into the woods! It had crawled in there in the night thinking it was its nest and fallen asleep, it was there the whole time! The rabbit is free and (presumably) healthy and happy.

 

[WVduckchick]

View attachment 1129133 View attachment 1129131 View attachment 1129132
So, yesterday evening my neighbor's dog showed up at his front door with a baby cottontail bunny in its mouth(we have a lot around here) the bunny appeared to be fine but it was covered in saliva and it was raining out(hypothermia) so we made sure that it wasn't bleeding(it wasn't) we let it hop off when it was ready and left it alone, but an hour later my neighbor came to the door and told us(since he knows that we love wildlife and animals) that the adult rabbits were going up to it and running away frightened(abandoning it) and it was shivering and since it was a rainy night we brought the little bun inside and put it in a large container that we used for brooding chicks with the heat lamp on a whole bunch of blankets and hay and food and water in the basement. The next morning I woke up, went down stairs to the basement and to my shock the bunny was gone! We searched high and low all over our basement but no luck, we spread flour out(in hopes of tracking it, no luck, we even opened the door for almost 3 hours but still no bunny. So I went on with my daily routine with the basement door wide open. I cleaned out the chicken coop. And to finish it off I grabbed a trash bag of straw(we have about ten of them to make using the bale easier) that we keep inter basement and took it out to the chicken run to spread it out as usual and I started to dump the straw onto the ground inside the run when out of nowhere the bunny shot out of the bag and slipped though the wire out into the woods! It had crawled in there in the night thinking it was its nest and fallen asleep, it was there the whole time! The rabbit is free and (presumably) healthy and happy.

Nice save!

 

[perchie.girl]

That's great! Congratulations to your boy! What are his long-term goals?
I'm the lowest rung on the professorial ladder - I only have two classes and one was cancelled because enrollment is down. So this semester I will just have my class for the students who did not get into English 1A - all freshmen... 90% athletes. It's all good.

LOL... My best math professor taught Calculus and was the foot ball coach at the community college. back in Key punch days.

Right now Deans goals are to get through college. Hes gone totally on grants so his social life is non existant... He was reading Books by the Archeologist Bakker by the time he was ten... Hes looking forward to getting a job in a local bookstore for the time being.

Both of us are science fiction writers... His more cosmic horror. I suspect he will be published way before me.

I will be happy as long as he can support himself and is happy himself.

deb

 

[frmboyinthecity]

Ya going for a home birth, I assume

That's a huge no. We use to have neighbors who did that. Would get a big kiddy pool in their living room. That's not for us.

Haha, yep! Adjunct English prof and private music teacher. Oh, and I'm a shady parking lot chicken dealer on the side!! (Just sold three to someone who met me at a Taco Bell...that's gotta be illegal in some state!)

And how Taco Bell supplies their meat in others...

 

[orrpeople]

LOL... My best math professor taught Calculus and was the foot ball coach at the community college. back in Key punch days.

Right now Deans goals are to get through college. Hes gone totally on grants so his social life is non existant... He was reading Books by the Archeologist Bakker by the time he was ten... Hes looking forward to getting a job in a local bookstore for the time being.

Both of us are science fiction writers... His more cosmic horror. I suspect he will be published way before me.

I will be happy as long as he can support himself and is happy himself.

deb

Sounds great! Yes, self sufficient, happy kids is our goal too! Sometimes it seems a bit lofty! The DD just spent most of the day pouting because the DH was making her fill out work applications. Her parent-sponsored gas money dries up in October, when, if she has not found a way to pay for her fuel, she will have to commute to class with her mommy, who will drop her off and pick her up for her college classes. I think pure mortification will be the fuel in her rocket at some point! (I may attempt to hold her hand and kiss her at the door. Bwahahaha, never mess with a parking lot chicken dealer!!)

 

[bobbi-j]

Sounds great! Yes, self sufficient, happy kids is our goal too! Sometimes it seems a bit lofty! The DD just spent most of the day pouting because the DH was making her fill out work applications. Her parent-sponsored gas money dries up in October, when, if she has not found a way to pay for her fuel, she will have to commute to class with her mommy, who will drop her off and pick her up for her college classes. I think pure mortification will be the fuel in her rocket at some point! (I may attempt to hold her hand and kiss her at the door. Bwahahaha, never mess with a parking lot chicken dealer!!)

 

[bobbi-j]

Lunch is packed, clothes are ready... Now all I need to is go to bed. But that means I'll have to get up for school in the morning, and, I DON'T WANNA GO! I'm not quite ready yet. DIL #3 is also employed by their local school district, and last weekend we were lamenting the end of summer. DS piped up and said, "You know, there are actually people who have to work ALL YEAR." (He being one of them.) We just gasped in mock horror. OK, done whining for the night. Going to go to bed now. Good night, everyone!