Guest guest Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 GlacierHi Everyone, it's me ee, I thought I would drop in and say hello, and I hope all the babies are doing well. This spring and in to summer I just got too overwhelmed with work here to keep up with the messages. I had to get my garden in and wanted a couple geese to help me weed it. We went Goose Shopping (haha) and came home with Zero geese and one baby goat. Hmmm.... finally did find some geese later on, ended up with 2 that came down with some ailment and went crippled....sad but funny that I had Clubfooted geese for a while. Anyway, they died. I found another person with some for sale and bought 2 Africans and 2 Tallouse. Meanwhile, my dh was experimenting with hatching chicken eggs with the neighbor boy. Out of their 20 eggs only 2 survived so I was raising 2 chickens and decided that was too much work for 2 birds, so and I bought a bunch more chicks, they're a lot of work to get up and running but they are feathered out and looking like chickens now. Dh built me a portable chicken pen i can move around the yard to keep it clean. The geese are huge now too. I just give them the run of the place. And the goat - ugh. She's a pain in the butt but dh wants to keep her (he doesn't take care of her, easy for him to say!) I guess between her and the geese I have some pretty organic lawn mowers at work in the back yard. Meanwhile the rabbits had 7 babies I am raising; I've traded one out for a different rabbit breed and sold another. The rest we'll butcher if they don't sell and the doe is bred again so I have to give her frozen bottle of water in her pen all day to keep her cool enough to reproduce. The chickens, what doesn't lay eggs well butcher them, too. The other day I bought more day old chicks so I have 15 now I think (lost a few along the way) and dh is in to trying to raise some game birds like quail. The garden is huge - I mean the garden is small and the plants are huge, limited on space I really packed a lot in to that one tiny area but I have giant tomatoes coming on and lots of hot peppers, green beans, a bumper crop on onions, broccoli, strawberries....on and on it's chemical free organic wonder ....plus working on the house remodel and landscaping the yard as I can afford the time or materials to do so because we want to put it for sale asap but the animals keep undoing what I do....plus home with the kids and fixing to start the school calendar up again to make use of these hot afternoons when we hate to be outdoors. If we're stuck indoors may as well do school, huh. And the taxidermy shop.....Dh is determined to buy this 40 acre farm before the year is out, pray he succeeds! Taxidermy business is going pretty good, still living hand to mouth but the garden and live stock are reducing the grocery bill. Ya, for those who don't realize, we live on a small lot in town with all these animals! LOL! We found ourselves a $200 camper trailer I had to fix up but it works pretty good now and makes camping easier; then dh found a $200 boat with a motor and it actually works! We have a 78 truck, a 73 camper, a 67 boat and get this - a 1957 boat motor!!!! LOL! Ya they look rough but by jingos we're having some fun with it all! We took the canoe up and down the river a couple weeks ago; it was Everett's maiden boat voyage and he loved it. Then we got some bad news about my mom, I am waiting for the doctor's final word on it all but she could be pretty sick. She came yesterday telling me to pick out what I want of hers after she dies. I swear she thinks she is going to die next week and that is stressing me out until I had some major anxiety attack and dh took me to the ER twice thinking I was having heart attacks but they finally put me on some nerve meds that have calmed me down so I can function again. Everything got so behind, I could hardly lift myself off the couch for two weeks and the place went to hell so I'm playing catch up with all that now. Both boys are doing just great. Everett is 20 months old now and in to everything. He just adores all the baby animals and loves to carry around the rabbits and he can say Chick-Chick-Chick and he can bleat like a goat perfectly. He helps me in the garden pulling weeds and anything else green he sees to pick.. Oops. is getting in to all this chicken raising and found baby chicks fit in the driver seat of his step sisters Barbie car....Ha. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great in the land of Clubfeet. If anyone needs me you can email me directly, number23@... I just can't manage to keep up with all the mail these days. I will say this to all you newcomers on the loop: USE THE PONSETI METHOD AND NOTHING ELSE! I hear from Wold once in a while, her is walking but still not doing so good. They tried the botox, had minimal results. I think she is going to go see Dr. Ponseti this month or next for help. Wishing you all the best! Happy Summer! ee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 GlacierHi Everyone, it's me ee, I thought I would drop in and say hello, and I hope all the babies are doing well. This spring and in to summer I just got too overwhelmed with work here to keep up with the messages. I had to get my garden in and wanted a couple geese to help me weed it. We went Goose Shopping (haha) and came home with Zero geese and one baby goat. Hmmm.... finally did find some geese later on, ended up with 2 that came down with some ailment and went crippled....sad but funny that I had Clubfooted geese for a while. Anyway, they died. I found another person with some for sale and bought 2 Africans and 2 Tallouse. Meanwhile, my dh was experimenting with hatching chicken eggs with the neighbor boy. Out of their 20 eggs only 2 survived so I was raising 2 chickens and decided that was too much work for 2 birds, so and I bought a bunch more chicks, they're a lot of work to get up and running but they are feathered out and looking like chickens now. Dh built me a portable chicken pen i can move around the yard to keep it clean. The geese are huge now too. I just give them the run of the place. And the goat - ugh. She's a pain in the butt but dh wants to keep her (he doesn't take care of her, easy for him to say!) I guess between her and the geese I have some pretty organic lawn mowers at work in the back yard. Meanwhile the rabbits had 7 babies I am raising; I've traded one out for a different rabbit breed and sold another. The rest we'll butcher if they don't sell and the doe is bred again so I have to give her frozen bottle of water in her pen all day to keep her cool enough to reproduce. The chickens, what doesn't lay eggs well butcher them, too. The other day I bought more day old chicks so I have 15 now I think (lost a few along the way) and dh is in to trying to raise some game birds like quail. The garden is huge - I mean the garden is small and the plants are huge, limited on space I really packed a lot in to that one tiny area but I have giant tomatoes coming on and lots of hot peppers, green beans, a bumper crop on onions, broccoli, strawberries....on and on it's chemical free organic wonder ....plus working on the house remodel and landscaping the yard as I can afford the time or materials to do so because we want to put it for sale asap but the animals keep undoing what I do....plus home with the kids and fixing to start the school calendar up again to make use of these hot afternoons when we hate to be outdoors. If we're stuck indoors may as well do school, huh. And the taxidermy shop.....Dh is determined to buy this 40 acre farm before the year is out, pray he succeeds! Taxidermy business is going pretty good, still living hand to mouth but the garden and live stock are reducing the grocery bill. Ya, for those who don't realize, we live on a small lot in town with all these animals! LOL! We found ourselves a $200 camper trailer I had to fix up but it works pretty good now and makes camping easier; then dh found a $200 boat with a motor and it actually works! We have a 78 truck, a 73 camper, a 67 boat and get this - a 1957 boat motor!!!! LOL! Ya they look rough but by jingos we're having some fun with it all! We took the canoe up and down the river a couple weeks ago; it was Everett's maiden boat voyage and he loved it. Then we got some bad news about my mom, I am waiting for the doctor's final word on it all but she could be pretty sick. She came yesterday telling me to pick out what I want of hers after she dies. I swear she thinks she is going to die next week and that is stressing me out until I had some major anxiety attack and dh took me to the ER twice thinking I was having heart attacks but they finally put me on some nerve meds that have calmed me down so I can function again. Everything got so behind, I could hardly lift myself off the couch for two weeks and the place went to hell so I'm playing catch up with all that now. Both boys are doing just great. Everett is 20 months old now and in to everything. He just adores all the baby animals and loves to carry around the rabbits and he can say Chick-Chick-Chick and he can bleat like a goat perfectly. He helps me in the garden pulling weeds and anything else green he sees to pick.. Oops. is getting in to all this chicken raising and found baby chicks fit in the driver seat of his step sisters Barbie car....Ha. Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great in the land of Clubfeet. If anyone needs me you can email me directly, number23@... I just can't manage to keep up with all the mail these days. I will say this to all you newcomers on the loop: USE THE PONSETI METHOD AND NOTHING ELSE! I hear from Wold once in a while, her is walking but still not doing so good. They tried the botox, had minimal results. I think she is going to go see Dr. Ponseti this month or next for help. Wishing you all the best! Happy Summer! ee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 ee, I am exhausted just reading your post. No wonder the doctor told you to relax! Sloooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww doooooooooooowwwwwwwwwn, take a deep breath, and let DH do everything for at least 1 more week. I know it is overwhelming when the house chores pile up, but at the same time, you need to take care of yourself, then the kids. It sounds like you need to hire a zoo-keeper! Wow, that is a lot of animals to care of! I had a mini farm when I was a little one. I had 13 chickens, 1 rooster, 3 horses, a dog and a cat. I loved it! My favorite thing was to get the chicken eggs every morning. I remember keeping the chicken coop was a ton of work! I bet your boys really enjoy it! Please take it easy until you are 100%!! Next time to talk to Wold, please tell her I am sorry to hear things aren't going better for her little one. Hopefully Dr. P can do magic. She needs to post an update as well. Shook Retail Operations Manager/Baking Instructor Vie de France Yamazaki, Inc. 2070 Chain Bridge Rd. Suite 500 Vienna, VA 22182 x374 x374 fax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 ee, I am exhausted just reading your post. No wonder the doctor told you to relax! Sloooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww doooooooooooowwwwwwwwwn, take a deep breath, and let DH do everything for at least 1 more week. I know it is overwhelming when the house chores pile up, but at the same time, you need to take care of yourself, then the kids. It sounds like you need to hire a zoo-keeper! Wow, that is a lot of animals to care of! I had a mini farm when I was a little one. I had 13 chickens, 1 rooster, 3 horses, a dog and a cat. I loved it! My favorite thing was to get the chicken eggs every morning. I remember keeping the chicken coop was a ton of work! I bet your boys really enjoy it! Please take it easy until you are 100%!! Next time to talk to Wold, please tell her I am sorry to hear things aren't going better for her little one. Hopefully Dr. P can do magic. She needs to post an update as well. Shook Retail Operations Manager/Baking Instructor Vie de France Yamazaki, Inc. 2070 Chain Bridge Rd. Suite 500 Vienna, VA 22182 x374 x374 fax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Hi ee, It sounds like you are doing great and very busy! I have been MIA for the last few months too. Trying to catch up on new names and their tootsies! Have a great summer Louisa Rachael 6-27-99 Zoe 2-22-04 RCF FAB 12/7 > GlacierHi Everyone, it's me ee, > > I thought I would drop in and say hello, and I hope all the babies are doing well. This spring and in to summer I just got too overwhelmed with work here to keep up with the messages. I had to get my garden in and wanted a couple geese to help me weed it. We went Goose Shopping (haha) and came home with Zero geese and one baby goat. Hmmm.... finally did find some geese later on, ended up with 2 that came down with some ailment and went crippled....sad but funny that I had Clubfooted geese for a while. Anyway, they died. I found another person with some for sale and bought 2 Africans and 2 Tallouse. Meanwhile, my dh was experimenting with hatching chicken eggs with the neighbor boy. Out of their 20 eggs only 2 survived so I was raising 2 chickens and decided that was too much work for 2 birds, so and I bought a bunch more chicks, they're a lot of work to get up and running but they are feathered out and looking like chickens now. Dh built me a portable chicken pen i can move around the yard to keep it clean. The geese are huge now too. I just give them the run of the place. And the goat - ugh. She's a pain in the butt but dh wants to keep her (he doesn't take care of her, easy for him to say!) I guess between her and the geese I have some pretty organic lawn mowers at work in the back yard. Meanwhile the rabbits had 7 babies I am raising; I've traded one out for a different rabbit breed and sold another. The rest we'll butcher if they don't sell and the doe is bred again so I have to give her frozen bottle of water in her pen all day to keep her cool enough to reproduce. The chickens, what doesn't lay eggs well butcher them, too. The other day I bought more day old chicks so I have 15 now I think (lost a few along the way) and dh is in to trying to raise some game birds like quail. The garden is huge - I mean the garden is small and the plants are huge, limited on space I really packed a lot in to that one tiny area but I have giant tomatoes coming on and lots of hot peppers, green beans, a bumper crop on onions, broccoli, strawberries....on and on it's chemical free organic wonder ....plus working on the house remodel and landscaping the yard as I can afford the time or materials to do so because we want to put it for sale asap but the animals keep undoing what I do....plus home with the kids and fixing to start the school calendar up again to make use of these hot afternoons when we hate to be outdoors. If we're stuck indoors may as well do school, huh. And the taxidermy shop.....Dh is determined to buy this 40 acre farm before the year is out, pray he succeeds! Taxidermy business is going pretty good, still living hand to mouth but the garden and live stock are reducing the grocery bill. Ya, for those who don't realize, we live on a small lot in town with all these animals! LOL! > > We found ourselves a $200 camper trailer I had to fix up but it works pretty good now and makes camping easier; then dh found a $200 boat with a motor and it actually works! We have a 78 truck, a 73 camper, a 67 boat and get this - a 1957 boat motor!!!! LOL! Ya they look rough but by jingos we're having some fun with it all! We took the canoe up and down the river a couple weeks ago; it was Everett's maiden boat voyage and he loved it. Then we got some bad news about my mom, I am waiting for the doctor's final word on it all but she could be pretty sick. She came yesterday telling me to pick out what I want of hers after she dies. I swear she thinks she is going to die next week and that is stressing me out until I had some major anxiety attack and dh took me to the ER twice thinking I was having heart attacks but they finally put me on some nerve meds that have calmed me down so I can function again. Everything got so behind, I could hardly lift myself off the couch for two weeks and the place went to hell so I'm playing catch up with all that now. > > Both boys are doing just great. Everett is 20 months old now and in to everything. He just adores all the baby animals and loves to carry around the rabbits and he can say Chick-Chick-Chick and he can bleat like a goat perfectly. He helps me in the garden pulling weeds and anything else green he sees to pick.. Oops. is getting in to all this chicken raising and found baby chicks fit in the driver seat of his step sisters Barbie car....Ha. > > Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great in the land of Clubfeet. If anyone needs me you can email me directly, number23@c... I just can't manage to keep up with all the mail these days. I will say this to all you newcomers on the loop: USE THE PONSETI METHOD AND NOTHING ELSE! I hear from Wold once in a while, her is walking but still not doing so good. They tried the botox, had minimal results. I think she is going to go see Dr. Ponseti this month or next for help. > > Wishing you all the best! Happy Summer! > > ee > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Hi ee, It sounds like you are doing great and very busy! I have been MIA for the last few months too. Trying to catch up on new names and their tootsies! Have a great summer Louisa Rachael 6-27-99 Zoe 2-22-04 RCF FAB 12/7 > GlacierHi Everyone, it's me ee, > > I thought I would drop in and say hello, and I hope all the babies are doing well. This spring and in to summer I just got too overwhelmed with work here to keep up with the messages. I had to get my garden in and wanted a couple geese to help me weed it. We went Goose Shopping (haha) and came home with Zero geese and one baby goat. Hmmm.... finally did find some geese later on, ended up with 2 that came down with some ailment and went crippled....sad but funny that I had Clubfooted geese for a while. Anyway, they died. I found another person with some for sale and bought 2 Africans and 2 Tallouse. Meanwhile, my dh was experimenting with hatching chicken eggs with the neighbor boy. Out of their 20 eggs only 2 survived so I was raising 2 chickens and decided that was too much work for 2 birds, so and I bought a bunch more chicks, they're a lot of work to get up and running but they are feathered out and looking like chickens now. Dh built me a portable chicken pen i can move around the yard to keep it clean. The geese are huge now too. I just give them the run of the place. And the goat - ugh. She's a pain in the butt but dh wants to keep her (he doesn't take care of her, easy for him to say!) I guess between her and the geese I have some pretty organic lawn mowers at work in the back yard. Meanwhile the rabbits had 7 babies I am raising; I've traded one out for a different rabbit breed and sold another. The rest we'll butcher if they don't sell and the doe is bred again so I have to give her frozen bottle of water in her pen all day to keep her cool enough to reproduce. The chickens, what doesn't lay eggs well butcher them, too. The other day I bought more day old chicks so I have 15 now I think (lost a few along the way) and dh is in to trying to raise some game birds like quail. The garden is huge - I mean the garden is small and the plants are huge, limited on space I really packed a lot in to that one tiny area but I have giant tomatoes coming on and lots of hot peppers, green beans, a bumper crop on onions, broccoli, strawberries....on and on it's chemical free organic wonder ....plus working on the house remodel and landscaping the yard as I can afford the time or materials to do so because we want to put it for sale asap but the animals keep undoing what I do....plus home with the kids and fixing to start the school calendar up again to make use of these hot afternoons when we hate to be outdoors. If we're stuck indoors may as well do school, huh. And the taxidermy shop.....Dh is determined to buy this 40 acre farm before the year is out, pray he succeeds! Taxidermy business is going pretty good, still living hand to mouth but the garden and live stock are reducing the grocery bill. Ya, for those who don't realize, we live on a small lot in town with all these animals! LOL! > > We found ourselves a $200 camper trailer I had to fix up but it works pretty good now and makes camping easier; then dh found a $200 boat with a motor and it actually works! We have a 78 truck, a 73 camper, a 67 boat and get this - a 1957 boat motor!!!! LOL! Ya they look rough but by jingos we're having some fun with it all! We took the canoe up and down the river a couple weeks ago; it was Everett's maiden boat voyage and he loved it. Then we got some bad news about my mom, I am waiting for the doctor's final word on it all but she could be pretty sick. She came yesterday telling me to pick out what I want of hers after she dies. I swear she thinks she is going to die next week and that is stressing me out until I had some major anxiety attack and dh took me to the ER twice thinking I was having heart attacks but they finally put me on some nerve meds that have calmed me down so I can function again. Everything got so behind, I could hardly lift myself off the couch for two weeks and the place went to hell so I'm playing catch up with all that now. > > Both boys are doing just great. Everett is 20 months old now and in to everything. He just adores all the baby animals and loves to carry around the rabbits and he can say Chick-Chick-Chick and he can bleat like a goat perfectly. He helps me in the garden pulling weeds and anything else green he sees to pick.. Oops. is getting in to all this chicken raising and found baby chicks fit in the driver seat of his step sisters Barbie car....Ha. > > Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great in the land of Clubfeet. If anyone needs me you can email me directly, number23@c... I just can't manage to keep up with all the mail these days. I will say this to all you newcomers on the loop: USE THE PONSETI METHOD AND NOTHING ELSE! I hear from Wold once in a while, her is walking but still not doing so good. They tried the botox, had minimal results. I think she is going to go see Dr. Ponseti this month or next for help. > > Wishing you all the best! Happy Summer! > > ee > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 ee, Great to hear from you, life sounds exhausting on your end -- I just can't imagine! Glad to hear the boys are doing well, sorry to hear about your mom, hope she is okay. We sure miss you around here. Hope you are able to keep in touch. Jenna (4/7/01) & Sammy (9/25/04, RCF Dobbs Brace, 16-18/7) > GlacierHi Everyone, it's me ee, > > I thought I would drop in and say hello, and I hope all the babies are doing well. This spring and in to summer I just got too overwhelmed with work here to keep up with the messages. I had to get my garden in and wanted a couple geese to help me weed it. We went Goose Shopping (haha) and came home with Zero geese and one baby goat. Hmmm.... finally did find some geese later on, ended up with 2 that came down with some ailment and went crippled....sad but funny that I had Clubfooted geese for a while. Anyway, they died. I found another person with some for sale and bought 2 Africans and 2 Tallouse. Meanwhile, my dh was experimenting with hatching chicken eggs with the neighbor boy. Out of their 20 eggs only 2 survived so I was raising 2 chickens and decided that was too much work for 2 birds, so and I bought a bunch more chicks, they're a lot of work to get up and running but they are feathered out and looking like chickens now. Dh built me a portable chicken pen i can move around the yard to keep it clean. The geese are huge now too. I just give them the run of the place. And the goat - ugh. She's a pain in the butt but dh wants to keep her (he doesn't take care of her, easy for him to say!) I guess between her and the geese I have some pretty organic lawn mowers at work in the back yard. Meanwhile the rabbits had 7 babies I am raising; I've traded one out for a different rabbit breed and sold another. The rest we'll butcher if they don't sell and the doe is bred again so I have to give her frozen bottle of water in her pen all day to keep her cool enough to reproduce. The chickens, what doesn't lay eggs well butcher them, too. The other day I bought more day old chicks so I have 15 now I think (lost a few along the way) and dh is in to trying to raise some game birds like quail. The garden is huge - I mean the garden is small and the plants are huge, limited on space I really packed a lot in to that one tiny area but I have giant tomatoes coming on and lots of hot peppers, green beans, a bumper crop on onions, broccoli, strawberries....on and on it's chemical free organic wonder ....plus working on the house remodel and landscaping the yard as I can afford the time or materials to do so because we want to put it for sale asap but the animals keep undoing what I do....plus home with the kids and fixing to start the school calendar up again to make use of these hot afternoons when we hate to be outdoors. If we're stuck indoors may as well do school, huh. And the taxidermy shop.....Dh is determined to buy this 40 acre farm before the year is out, pray he succeeds! Taxidermy business is going pretty good, still living hand to mouth but the garden and live stock are reducing the grocery bill. Ya, for those who don't realize, we live on a small lot in town with all these animals! LOL! > > We found ourselves a $200 camper trailer I had to fix up but it works pretty good now and makes camping easier; then dh found a $200 boat with a motor and it actually works! We have a 78 truck, a 73 camper, a 67 boat and get this - a 1957 boat motor!!!! LOL! Ya they look rough but by jingos we're having some fun with it all! We took the canoe up and down the river a couple weeks ago; it was Everett's maiden boat voyage and he loved it. Then we got some bad news about my mom, I am waiting for the doctor's final word on it all but she could be pretty sick. She came yesterday telling me to pick out what I want of hers after she dies. I swear she thinks she is going to die next week and that is stressing me out until I had some major anxiety attack and dh took me to the ER twice thinking I was having heart attacks but they finally put me on some nerve meds that have calmed me down so I can function again. Everything got so behind, I could hardly lift myself off the couch for two weeks and the place went to hell so I'm playing catch up with all that now. > > Both boys are doing just great. Everett is 20 months old now and in to everything. He just adores all the baby animals and loves to carry around the rabbits and he can say Chick-Chick-Chick and he can bleat like a goat perfectly. He helps me in the garden pulling weeds and anything else green he sees to pick.. Oops. is getting in to all this chicken raising and found baby chicks fit in the driver seat of his step sisters Barbie car....Ha. > > Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great in the land of Clubfeet. If anyone needs me you can email me directly, number23@c... I just can't manage to keep up with all the mail these days. I will say this to all you newcomers on the loop: USE THE PONSETI METHOD AND NOTHING ELSE! I hear from Wold once in a while, her is walking but still not doing so good. They tried the botox, had minimal results. I think she is going to go see Dr. Ponseti this month or next for help. > > Wishing you all the best! Happy Summer! > > ee > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 ee, Great to hear from you, life sounds exhausting on your end -- I just can't imagine! Glad to hear the boys are doing well, sorry to hear about your mom, hope she is okay. We sure miss you around here. Hope you are able to keep in touch. Jenna (4/7/01) & Sammy (9/25/04, RCF Dobbs Brace, 16-18/7) > GlacierHi Everyone, it's me ee, > > I thought I would drop in and say hello, and I hope all the babies are doing well. This spring and in to summer I just got too overwhelmed with work here to keep up with the messages. I had to get my garden in and wanted a couple geese to help me weed it. We went Goose Shopping (haha) and came home with Zero geese and one baby goat. Hmmm.... finally did find some geese later on, ended up with 2 that came down with some ailment and went crippled....sad but funny that I had Clubfooted geese for a while. Anyway, they died. I found another person with some for sale and bought 2 Africans and 2 Tallouse. Meanwhile, my dh was experimenting with hatching chicken eggs with the neighbor boy. Out of their 20 eggs only 2 survived so I was raising 2 chickens and decided that was too much work for 2 birds, so and I bought a bunch more chicks, they're a lot of work to get up and running but they are feathered out and looking like chickens now. Dh built me a portable chicken pen i can move around the yard to keep it clean. The geese are huge now too. I just give them the run of the place. And the goat - ugh. She's a pain in the butt but dh wants to keep her (he doesn't take care of her, easy for him to say!) I guess between her and the geese I have some pretty organic lawn mowers at work in the back yard. Meanwhile the rabbits had 7 babies I am raising; I've traded one out for a different rabbit breed and sold another. The rest we'll butcher if they don't sell and the doe is bred again so I have to give her frozen bottle of water in her pen all day to keep her cool enough to reproduce. The chickens, what doesn't lay eggs well butcher them, too. The other day I bought more day old chicks so I have 15 now I think (lost a few along the way) and dh is in to trying to raise some game birds like quail. The garden is huge - I mean the garden is small and the plants are huge, limited on space I really packed a lot in to that one tiny area but I have giant tomatoes coming on and lots of hot peppers, green beans, a bumper crop on onions, broccoli, strawberries....on and on it's chemical free organic wonder ....plus working on the house remodel and landscaping the yard as I can afford the time or materials to do so because we want to put it for sale asap but the animals keep undoing what I do....plus home with the kids and fixing to start the school calendar up again to make use of these hot afternoons when we hate to be outdoors. If we're stuck indoors may as well do school, huh. And the taxidermy shop.....Dh is determined to buy this 40 acre farm before the year is out, pray he succeeds! Taxidermy business is going pretty good, still living hand to mouth but the garden and live stock are reducing the grocery bill. Ya, for those who don't realize, we live on a small lot in town with all these animals! LOL! > > We found ourselves a $200 camper trailer I had to fix up but it works pretty good now and makes camping easier; then dh found a $200 boat with a motor and it actually works! We have a 78 truck, a 73 camper, a 67 boat and get this - a 1957 boat motor!!!! LOL! Ya they look rough but by jingos we're having some fun with it all! We took the canoe up and down the river a couple weeks ago; it was Everett's maiden boat voyage and he loved it. Then we got some bad news about my mom, I am waiting for the doctor's final word on it all but she could be pretty sick. She came yesterday telling me to pick out what I want of hers after she dies. I swear she thinks she is going to die next week and that is stressing me out until I had some major anxiety attack and dh took me to the ER twice thinking I was having heart attacks but they finally put me on some nerve meds that have calmed me down so I can function again. Everything got so behind, I could hardly lift myself off the couch for two weeks and the place went to hell so I'm playing catch up with all that now. > > Both boys are doing just great. Everett is 20 months old now and in to everything. He just adores all the baby animals and loves to carry around the rabbits and he can say Chick-Chick-Chick and he can bleat like a goat perfectly. He helps me in the garden pulling weeds and anything else green he sees to pick.. Oops. is getting in to all this chicken raising and found baby chicks fit in the driver seat of his step sisters Barbie car....Ha. > > Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great in the land of Clubfeet. If anyone needs me you can email me directly, number23@c... I just can't manage to keep up with all the mail these days. I will say this to all you newcomers on the loop: USE THE PONSETI METHOD AND NOTHING ELSE! I hear from Wold once in a while, her is walking but still not doing so good. They tried the botox, had minimal results. I think she is going to go see Dr. Ponseti this month or next for help. > > Wishing you all the best! Happy Summer! > > ee > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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