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[Debbie292d]

Living in Juneau 15 years leaned the hard and fast way to drive ice and snow.

I grew up learning how to drive in a Minnesota blizzard in a Ford Econoline truck. That was around 1975.

Everything now has front-wheel or four-wheel drive, but several years ago I got stuck in the middle of a four-lane highway, 29 in Wisconsin. I had a FWD Saturn and bottomed out. Here I was stuck on the highway and couldn't even see. A tow truck came by and pulled me to the next exit, which was mine. He left without letting me pay him or get his name. I call him my angel.

Since then, I refused to own anything that wasn't high wheel base, like the SUV and F-150 we own now. Whew!

 

[Debbie292d]

Thanks, I am sorry too!

Thanks! Report was negative, but I had that happen before even with x-rays. They're not very precise. And I have osteopenia.

I fell a couple of weeks ago stepping out of a pet pen in the yard holding a two-week old chick in each hand. I held the chick in the right hand in the air and slammed down on my arm. I swore I broke ribs, but coincidentally had a chiropractor appt the next day for my tail bone injury from a different fall. (Yeah, we're taking precautions around here now.) He said rarely do people break ribs but it hurts worse not to. It took until the other day to finally not feel it anymore.

 

[pertnear09]

I fell a couple of weeks ago stepping out of a pet pen in the yard holding a two-week old chick in each hand. I held the chick in the right hand in the air and slammed down on my arm. I swore I broke ribs, but coincidentally had a chiropractor appt the next day for my tail bone injury from a different fall. (Yeah, we're taking precautions around here now.) He said rarely do people break ribs but it hurts worse not to. It took until the other day to finally not feel it anymore.

Numerous people on here are falling and hurting their ribs. Larry, Cap, Granny Hatchet and now you. Becoming a regular epidemic.
Y'all all be careful, sure don't wanna be breaking no hips.

 

[Debbie292d]

Numerous people on here are falling and hurting their ribs. Larry, Cap, Granny Hatchet and now you. Becoming a regular epidemic.
Y'all all be careful, sure don't wanna be breaking no hips.

That day, we bought a pen with a door. This is just for getting chicks outside during the daytime.

This is a blind pullet sunbathing and an unrelated chick peeking out her back. But I walk in and out, not step over the top of it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I sold my last 2 goats today!
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Misty, Queen goat.
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Her daughter

Hurt to sell still huh. Only ones I might have bought one day!

 

[Alaskan]

I sold my last 2 goats today!
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Misty, Queen goat.
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Her daughter

Is that out for all animals?

I can't remember if all poultry had already been sold, or only most....

Do you have a specific trip set up for when you are fully animal free?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Is that out for all animals?

I can't remember if all poultry had already been sold, or only most....

Do you have a specific trip set up for when you are fully animal free?

Still three chickens to sell. I need to give them a good bath and clean their coop.
Next summer we will go to Nova Scotia to visit hubby's Mom. Have not seen her in a decade or so. There are lots of places I would like to go when I recover from my most recent fall.

 

[Debbie292d]

Is that out for all animals?

I can't remember if all poultry had already been sold, or only most....

Do you have a specific trip set up for when you are fully animal free?

Hubby and I were just discussing this today...going camping more often while I'm breeding silkies.

My sister and her husband raise thousands of turkeys commercially and she's the only one of dozens of employees that takes care of the new poults coming in. It's creative scheduling done to be able to go on vacations for them, and us, pretty much the same.

We've taken chicks with us in the past, and a farm neighbor shuts the coops at night and opens them in the morning for the adults. If we start going more often, we'll investigate automatic doors, but we'd need like six of them. That could cost us a 2nd mortgage lol.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Hurt to sell still huh. Only ones I might have bought one day!

I had some lovely goats.
Another of Misty's babies...

 

[Debbie292d]

I had some lovely goats.
Another of Misty's babies...
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Are you anywhere near Hampton? I was born there but we moved when I was 4. Dad was in the A.F.

Last summer was the first time I was there again, 60 years later, to see where I was born, etc.