I just wanna say -- the random comments thread

[missy]

I need names for many of my chickens and ducks. Naming is my third least favorite part of having pets (death and illness come it worse).

4 female ducks
13 hens
2 roosters

Of course I also still need to tell some of the hens apart

Priscilla, Penelope, Samantha, Lillie

Greta, Henrietta, Carly, Frances, Louisa, Gertrude, Katerina, Susie, Marilyn, Nancy, Laurie, Barbara, Carolina, Wendy, Lisa, Denise, Cheryl, Christina, (Gave you some extras if you didn't like some of the choices lol)

Drew, Benjamin

 

[TooPatient]

Priscilla, Penelope, Samantha, Lillie

Greta, Henrietta, Carly, Frances, Louisa, Gertrude, Katerina, Susie, Marilyn, Nancy, Laurie, Barbara, Carolina, Wendy, Lisa, Denise, Cheryl, Christina, (Gave you some extras if you didn't like some of the choices lol)

Drew, Benjamin

Great list!

One of my boys is sick. Hourly syringing dose of molasses alternating with activated charcoal. I have been feeling bad that we had nothing to call him but the poor little rooster. He is big and so beautiful when he feels well.

My plan had been to get to know them all and give fitting names as personalities came through. Now we have so many names needed that it just gets overwhelming. Inga, Phyllis, Nibbly, and Lucy were easy. Mama Hen was easy once she had her babies to care for. Then the rest.... such big personalities all waiting to learn their names.

 

[missy]

Great list!

One of my boys is sick. Hourly syringing dose of molasses alternating with activated charcoal. I have been feeling bad that we had nothing to call him but the poor little rooster. He is big and so beautiful when he feels well.

My plan had been to get to know them all and give fitting names as personalities came through. Now we have so many names needed that it just gets overwhelming. Inga, Phyllis, Nibbly, and Lucy were easy. Mama Hen was easy once she had her babies to care for. Then the rest.... such big personalities all waiting to learn their names.

Awww he is so pretty!!!! Mega dust for his complete recovery and please give him a hug from me if you can hug him

 

[stracci2000]

You

I need names for many of my chickens and ducks. Naming is my third least favorite part of having pets (death and illness come it worse).

4 female ducks
13 hens
2 roosters

Of course I also still need to tell some of the hens apart

You could name them after gemstones!

Birthstones: Garnet, amethyst, aqua, diamond, emerald, pearl, ruby, peridot, sapphire, opal, topaz, zircon.

Also , coral, jet, amber, ivory, jasper, agate, onyx, lapis, turquoise, carnelian, geode, crystal......etc!

 

[tyty333]

Oh my gosh, that rooster is beautiful @TooPatient ! I had no idea they could have such pretty coloring.

I hope he recovers soon. Its awful to have a sick pet and not really know what the issue is.

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

Great list!

One of my boys is sick. Hourly syringing dose of molasses alternating with activated charcoal. I have been feeling bad that we had nothing to call him but the poor little rooster. He is big and so beautiful when he feels well.

My plan had been to get to know them all and give fitting names as personalities came through. Now we have so many names needed that it just gets overwhelming. Inga, Phyllis, Nibbly, and Lucy were easy. Mama Hen was easy once she had her babies to care for. Then the rest.... such big personalities all waiting to learn their names.

That's Elton John, obviously. Look at that outfit! I hope he feels better soon.

 

[canuk-gal]

That's Elton John, obviously. Look at that outfit! I hope he feels better soon.

Obviously not Donovan!

I like actors and singers names/persona's.

 

[TooPatient]

He is SO much better today! I was afraid we were going to lose him for awhile and was sure this morning it would be a month or more of indoor rooster life for him. Definitely still weak and more to recover, but he was actually able to walk some today and eat & drink on his own. He was mid molt and now damaged his gorgeous tail, but he is a handsome guy!

 

[missy]

He is SO much better today! I was afraid we were going to lose him for awhile and was sure this morning it would be a month or more of indoor rooster life for him. Definitely still weak and more to recover, but he was actually able to walk some today and eat & drink on his own. He was mid molt and now damaged his gorgeous tail, but he is a handsome guy!

YAY so glad to read this happy update @TooPatient

 

[tyty333]

Hope he continues to get better @TooPatient ! He's still a handsome boy! He looks like a painting to me...like he cant be real!

 

[TooPatient]

Hope he continues to get better @TooPatient ! He's still a handsome boy! He looks like a painting to me...like he cant be real!

The roosters I have seen on TV and in books or even on chicken themed house items just don't do them justice! The breeds have so many amazing colors, patterns, flowing tails, and just amazing sizes (both huge and tiny). He and our other rooster are still getting full grown up feathers in and I can't wait to see how they end up looking!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

my friend Jim posted this on our Springsteen forum



stolen without shame - brilliant idea!
ATTENTION ALL TEACHERS AND PARENTS
This is an article that needs to be repeated:
Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored. She also asks the students to nominate one student whom they believe has been an exceptional classroom citizen that week. All ballots are privately submitted to her.
And every single Friday afternoon, after the students go home, Chase’s teacher takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her and studies them. She looks for patterns.
Who is not getting requested by anyone else?
Who doesn’t even know who to request?
Who never gets noticed enough to be nominated?
Who had a million friends last week and none this week?
You see, Chase’s teacher is not looking for a new seating chart or “exceptional citizens.” Chase’s teacher is looking for lonely children. She’s looking for children who are struggling to connect with other children. She’s identifying the little ones who are falling through the cracks of the class’s social life. She is discovering whose gifts are going unnoticed by their peers. And she’s pinning down- right away- who’s being bullied and who is doing the bullying.
As a teacher, parent, and lover of all children – I think that this is the most brilliant Love Ninja strategy I have ever encountered. It’s like taking an X-ray of a classroom to see beneath the surface of things and into the hearts of students. It is like mining for gold – the gold being those little ones who need a little help – who need adults to step in and TEACH them how to make friends, how to ask others to play, how to join a group, or how to share their gifts with others. And it’s a bully deterrent because every teacher knows that bullying usually happens outside of her eyeshot – and that often kids being bullied are too intimidated to share. But as she said – the truth comes out on those safe, private, little sheets of paper.
As Chase’s teacher explained this simple, ingenious idea – I stared at her with my mouth hanging open. “How long have you been using this system?” I said.
Ever since Columbine, she said. Every single Friday afternoon since Columbine.
Good Lord.
This brilliant woman watched Columbine knowing that ALL VIOLENCE BEGINS WITH DISCONNECTION. All outward violence begins as inner loneliness. She watched that tragedy KNOWING that children who aren’t being noticed will eventually resort to being noticed by any means necessary.
And so she decided to start fighting violence early and often, and with the world within her reach. What Chase’s teacher is doing when she sits in her empty classroom studying those lists written with shaky 11 year old hands - is SAVING LIVES. I am convinced of it. She is saving lives.
And what this mathematician has learned while using this system is something she really already knew: that everything – even love, even belonging – has a pattern to it. And she finds those patterns through those lists – she breaks the codes of disconnection. And then she gets lonely kids the help they need. It’s math to her. It’s MATH.
All is love- even math. Amazing.
Chase’s teacher retires this year – after decades of saving lives. What a way to spend a life: looking for patterns of love and loneliness. Stepping in, every single day- and altering the trajectory of our world.
TEACH ON, WARRIORS. You are the first responders, the front line, the disconnection detectives, and the best and ONLY hope we’ve got for a better world. What you do in those classrooms when no one is watching- it’s our best hope.copied for hope to save more Children

 

[stracci2000]

my friend Jim posted this on our Springsteen forum



stolen without shame - brilliant idea!
ATTENTION ALL TEACHERS AND PARENTS
This is an article that needs to be repeated:
Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. The children know that these requests may or may not be honored. She also asks the students to nominate one student whom they believe has been an exceptional classroom citizen that week. All ballots are privately submitted to her.
And every single Friday afternoon, after the students go home, Chase’s teacher takes out those slips of paper, places them in front of her and studies them. She looks for patterns.
Who is not getting requested by anyone else?
Who doesn’t even know who to request?
Who never gets noticed enough to be nominated?
Who had a million friends last week and none this week?
You see, Chase’s teacher is not looking for a new seating chart or “exceptional citizens.” Chase’s teacher is looking for lonely children. She’s looking for children who are struggling to connect with other children. She’s identifying the little ones who are falling through the cracks of the class’s social life. She is discovering whose gifts are going unnoticed by their peers. And she’s pinning down- right away- who’s being bullied and who is doing the bullying.
As a teacher, parent, and lover of all children – I think that this is the most brilliant Love Ninja strategy I have ever encountered. It’s like taking an X-ray of a classroom to see beneath the surface of things and into the hearts of students. It is like mining for gold – the gold being those little ones who need a little help – who need adults to step in and TEACH them how to make friends, how to ask others to play, how to join a group, or how to share their gifts with others. And it’s a bully deterrent because every teacher knows that bullying usually happens outside of her eyeshot – and that often kids being bullied are too intimidated to share. But as she said – the truth comes out on those safe, private, little sheets of paper.
As Chase’s teacher explained this simple, ingenious idea – I stared at her with my mouth hanging open. “How long have you been using this system?” I said.
Ever since Columbine, she said. Every single Friday afternoon since Columbine.
Good Lord.
This brilliant woman watched Columbine knowing that ALL VIOLENCE BEGINS WITH DISCONNECTION. All outward violence begins as inner loneliness. She watched that tragedy KNOWING that children who aren’t being noticed will eventually resort to being noticed by any means necessary.
And so she decided to start fighting violence early and often, and with the world within her reach. What Chase’s teacher is doing when she sits in her empty classroom studying those lists written with shaky 11 year old hands - is SAVING LIVES. I am convinced of it. She is saving lives.
And what this mathematician has learned while using this system is something she really already knew: that everything – even love, even belonging – has a pattern to it. And she finds those patterns through those lists – she breaks the codes of disconnection. And then she gets lonely kids the help they need. It’s math to her. It’s MATH.
All is love- even math. Amazing.
Chase’s teacher retires this year – after decades of saving lives. What a way to spend a life: looking for patterns of love and loneliness. Stepping in, every single day- and altering the trajectory of our world.
TEACH ON, WARRIORS. You are the first responders, the front line, the disconnection detectives, and the best and ONLY hope we’ve got for a better world. What you do in those classrooms when no one is watching- it’s our best hope.copied for hope to save more Children

Thanks for posting this Daisy. Very thought provoking. And sad.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Thanks for posting this Daisy. Very thought provoking. And sad.

in my day teacher's seemed to ignore bullying
at high school they would have been deaf not to have heard it going on
no doubt thankful it was some poor kid and not the teacher getting picked on

 

[stracci2000]

I fixed it! Me myself and I.
The grandfather clock that DH got from his mother's estate. It's a Howard Miller.
The weights were off the chains, the chains were off the gears. It didn't keep time or chime. It was in rough shape.

We had to lay it down in the SUV to transport it 3 hours to our house. It barely fit! Laying a grandfather clock on it's back is frowned upon, but we had no choice.
Anyway, after watching several YouTube videos and fussing with it all afternoon....I got it to work! DH wanted to help, but I shooed him away.
Yay! I'm pretty excited!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I fixed it! Me myself and I.
The grandfather clock that DH got from his mother's estate.
The weights were off the chains, the chains were off the gears. It didn't keep time or chime. It was in rough shape.

We had to lay it down in the SUV to transport it 3 hours to our house. Laying a grandfather clock on it's back is frowned upon, but we had no choice.
Anyway, after watching several YouTube videos and fussing with it for a while....I got it to work!
Yay! I'm pretty excited!

what a beautiful clock
it definatly went to the right family member !!!

 

[Slickk]

Woo hoo @stracci2000 it’s beautiful and I’m so happy for you that you got it going!! You go!

 

[stracci2000]

@Daisys and Diamonds
@Slickk
No one in the family wanted it because it was non-functional for years.
Now that it works, I have to get used to the chimes all day long!

 

[Slickk]

@stracci2000 I have a grandmother clock that was my moms and I love that I get to hear it all day as she once did . Every 15 minutes to be exact.
Be careful, the relatives may want it now that it works! Haha

 

[Lookinagain]

I fixed it! Me myself and I.
The grandfather clock that DH got from his mother's estate. It's a Howard Miller.
The weights were off the chains, the chains were off the gears. It didn't keep time or chime. It was in rough shape.

We had to lay it down in the SUV to transport it 3 hours to our house. It barely fit! Laying a grandfather clock on it's back is frowned upon, but we had no choice.
Anyway, after watching several YouTube videos and fussing with it all afternoon....I got it to work! DH wanted to help, but I shooed him away.
Yay! I'm pretty excited!

The things that you do by yourself always amaze me. I knew that you were great at figuring things out, but fixing this? It's beautiful and so happy you have it working.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@Daisys and Diamonds
@Slickk
No one in the family wanted it because it was non-functional for years.
Now that it works, I have to get used to the chimes all day long!

i love the chimes of a clock
enjoy each other's company
he's going to become an old friend in no time

 

[stracci2000]

The things that you do by yourself always amaze me. I knew that you were great at figuring things out, but fixing this? It's beautiful and so happy you have it working.

I can't do math to save my life, but I can work with my hands!
I got this talent from my Dad, he can fix anything.

 

[stracci2000]

i love the chimes of a clock
enjoy each other's company
he's going to become an old friend in no time

I don't care that much for traditional style furniture, but I'm getting used to it already. The chimes are soft and melodical. It's nice!

 

[Calliecake]

Wow @stracci2000. That‘s really impressive. How long did it take you to fix it? It looks beautiful.

 

[stracci2000]

Wow @stracci2000. That‘s really impressive. How long did it take you to fix it? It looks beautiful.

About 3 hours. I had to do research on chain driven clocks and figure out how to feed the chains back in. I have no idea how they got removed in the first place. The 3 weights hook to the ends of the chains. Then the thing wouldn't chime, so I had to figure out how to correct that.

There was a booklet from the manufacturer, but it wasn't really helpful, so YouTube videos saved the day.
I surprised myself when it suddenly started running and chiming!

 

[YadaYadaYada]

When it’s Wednesday and you go to check the tracking.

Lies!

 

[tyty333]

@stracci2000 My MIL had one (that she kept running/working). Every time we had to move her we had to pay someone $150 to
get it set up and running again. Good for you learning how to do it yourself!

FYI...we had to move it a lot because MIL got moved around to various levels of care in the end. She had bought the clock with
her own money and it was always a great source of pride and comfort to her. (I, personally, found it annoying because I was not
used to all the noise!)

 

[stracci2000]

When it’s Wednesday and you go to check the tracking.

Lies!

Oh, girl......what did you order????

 

[stracci2000]

@stracci2000 My MIL had one (that she kept running/working). Every time we had to move her we had to pay someone $150 to
get it set up and running again. Good for you learning how to do it yourself!

FYI...we had to move it a lot because MIL got moved around to various levels of care in the end. She had bought the clock with
her own money and it was always a great source of pride and comfort to her. (I, personally, found it annoying because I was not
used to all the noise!)

See how I saved $150! Haha!
The chimes are really not that loud. It's only been a few days, and already I'm no longer noticing them. Except at the top of the hour, when it chimes are longer.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

Oh, girl......what did you order????

Modest purchases, I’ll post them in the fashion jewelry sub.