Ginger, please don't hold off on vacations and pictures because of weight. I am a size 24/26 (depending on make of clothing) and have been for a long, long time. For most of my life I avoided getting my picture taken because I didn't like how I looked but one day I was like "you know, screw it. I am me, losing weight doesn't happen over night and I want to remember these moments" and now I am in photos. Sometimes I don't look at them but I try to remind myself that other people - my family, my friends, THEY don't care how I looked. They care that I was there, that they can look back and remember happy moments and so can I. I know it isn't blanket advice and everyone is different but don't push life events off because you aren't okay with right now.
If little Makenzi or little Gryace or little whatever odd ball American spelling can grow up to vote, then why can't anyone else with a name that isn't "easy"? If this person hasn't noticed, Americans tend to name their kids all sorts of things with extra letters that are hard to pronounce.
What about people with Russian names? Or Polish names? Or German names? Why are they picking on Asians? All of those other names are hard to pronounce and spell but people do it every day.
I have been waiting forever for this thread!!! Eeee!!
We got a tiller for our lawn mower so we can go big this year!
So far we've picked up;
Cantaloupe Watermelons Peas Beans - green and white Corn - various varieties Tomatoes - various varieties Cauliflower Broccoli (the groundhogs kept mowing them off last year!) Peppers
I'm not done buying seeds.
We are doing potato cages this year. I am so excited about them!
And we have our chickens so my husband will be building a chicken tractor!
I hate her. You are so awesome to talk to because it DOESN'T make it awkward and it is easy. When I met you, it was like talking to an old friend because you weren't one for leaving awkward pauses and "so um.." or "so uh.."
I would avoid her. Are there other talkers there? Get to know them!
Sleep walking and handling a firearm in your sleep is NOT okay. And a sleep walker is capable of getting into a safe, just like they are capable of opening a fridge, driving a car, unlocking doors, etc. I would NOT feel safe with this at all.
I don't care of how many promises this man makes, what you do when you are asleep you are NOT in control of. He is very clearly not in control of his firearms.
I thought Kallie advised you that a yellow one has to be Mr Quackers....
Or Mrs Quackers is acceptable she said
I will get a white bantam and name it Mr.Quackers. Unfortunately I don't want to be the one who has to eat the yellow chicks, so they will be going back. LOL
Also, lol that we are naming a chicken after a duck.
I got whatever was their specialty (the black fluff balls) and I want the bantams because they are cute. I know they lay teeny tiny eggs - we had silkies growing up. They are friendly and eat bugs. lol
So the yellow ones will be going back today and I will be getting the bantams. This was last night when they were still pasted up and not as happy. This morning they were running around like fools and looking for someone to pet them.
It means in 10 weeks you have to butcher them. They grow so fast that they don't stay alive. I asked my friend, who breeds chickens for eggs and eating, if I could just keep them as outdoor garden chickens and she said no. Apparently since they grow so fast, they break legs and have heart attacks.
Were these cornish? Broilers just mean that they grow bigger than average and usually have poor egg production. I have broilers that take 16 to 20 weeks to butcher but I never keep a cornish past 8 weeks. I get 8 lb birds out of them.
I had to restrain myself from getting chicks this weekend. I have 3 orders totalling 150 birds for the spring/summer but I am having a hard time waiting. My tractor supply will have ducklings tomorrow and I cannot resist them but we already have 6
It means in 10 weeks you have to butcher them. They grow so fast that they don't stay alive. I asked my friend, who breeds chickens for eggs and eating, if I could just keep them as outdoor garden chickens and she said no. Apparently since they grow so fast, they break legs and have heart attacks.
OMFG, this a natural process?
Yah....
I was really hoping they'd just be giant chickens who did nothing besides roam around. No dice. So they are going back. I cannot deal with all of that, I'd cry my eyes out if something happens to them on my watch.
Broiler chicks?!?!? BROILER?!?! What in the hell does that mean?
It means in 10 weeks you have to butcher them. They grow so fast that they don't stay alive. I asked my friend, who breeds chickens for eggs and eating, if I could just keep them as outdoor garden chickens and she said no. Apparently since they grow so fast, they break legs and have heart attacks.
Yay!! I love chickens, they are too cute. And their attitudes are so fantastic - they are like tiny dogs in chicken bodies, they follow you everywhere. Every year my husband has asked me "Bobbert, do you want chickens?" and every year I have "no, no, maybe next year" so I finally bit the bullet. Tractor Supply was having their chick days.
You need to post pictures once you have the run done and the border of your garden, I'm really curious to see it!
My brother always had chickens, most of my friends do. I've been around them tons of times but I've never raised peeps. So I picked up 6 since we were going to add them this year. (I need to return 2, I accidentally got broiler chicks and I don't want to be the one who eats them I am going to get bantams instead )
At any rate, no one told me I'd have to wipe their little chick asses. 3 out of 4 of my egg layers had a thing called pasty butt - their butts get super encrusted with poo to the point it can kill them. I held their butts up to the shower and wiped and wiped, and boy am I glad I did. And I'm sure the chicks had a huge sense of relief. They are no longer peeping their shrill little "help meeee" peeps.
Now I need to name them. The 4 I am keeping are all black with white chests and I will probably get another black one and maybe an all white one? I intend to call the new black one - Speedy because the bantams have these little racing stripes. lol.
The cats are terrified of them and the dog has no idea where the peeping is coming from. (The chicks are safe from the pets)
I wish I could take them to work with me. Office peeps!
We are going to build mobile cages and put them in our garden so they can eat the bugs. They will also have a house along the side of the garden.
Right now they are in a brooder box in the basement with their snazzy warm set up.
Egg laying purposes only. No eating the chickens, at all.
What are you going to do when you have a bunch of dried up non-laying chickens around? This is why DH won't let me get egg chickens. I would have all of these geriatric chickens that are of no use, but they would all have names and probably sweaters too.
They are still capable of eating bugs and by that point, they will be more than pets and I'd just let them live out their little chicken lives happy in the garden.
I know, I keep telling myself that I have a great job and a great family and I am on the road to good things. But I feel so stuck and I look at my marriage and wonder how the hell it got here and I feel like I have put all of myself into it and I just don't have much else to give. And it is dumb to feel those feelings in it isn't THAT bad but I am so scared of failing.
Sometimes I just feel like life would be easier if I didn't exist. My husband could go have the life he wants, I wouldn't have to always be the only one worrying about bills, money, our house, logical things.
I would never do anything but damn if I wish I could just give up and disappear sometimes.