Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

Latestarter said:

Lot of folks must be hurting to be throwing their dollars at it.

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Hurting may not be the reason. We pretty much never play the lottery. Not going to this time but last time the Powerball was about a billion, both DW and I independently bought a ticket just because is was huge and "different". If we were hurting, we'd probably play it all the time hoping for a "mere" million or two and be poorer for the effort.

Usually don't play but might this time for poops and giggles. Only thing I would be interested in buy would be a bigger stake in an energy company stock tho IF SpaceX were a public traded company, I'd jump on it.

CntryBoy777 said:

if I were to win the "sharing" would be limited to those that are talking to me during this present day period of time

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We are talking to you during this present time.

RollingAcres said:

We are talking to you during this present time.

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How ya doin' Fred?

Boy, everyone is everyone's FRIEND on here right now and "talking" to everyone.....

And yes, I do play the lottery. Not everytime, not every week, but whenever I feel like it. One year I tracked my spending and winnings and made about $25. to the good. At least in Va they do put a bunch towards education. Besides, I figure I don't drink, don't smoke, don't hardly even chew gum, so what I spend on the lottery is my "vice"..... other than being a farmer and that is the biggest gamble there is!!!!!

farmerjan said:

Boy, everyone is everyone's FRIEND on here right now and "talking" to everyone.....

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When a person wins the lottery, that's when they find out they have lots of "friends" and "relatives". But when you're broke and don't have a pot to p*** in, all of a sudden those friends and relatives disappear.

I don't normally buy any lottery tickets. Once in a while I'll get a scratch off ticket.

Mike CHS said:

We tried it just in the morning and we had chickens roosting everywhere except their shelter and we lost hens. We will keep doing light at night and at least they go in to the coop when it gets dark outside. We do it not so much for the eggs but rather have them in a secure place at night.

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@Mike CHS that is very interesting that your chickens did not return to the coop in the evening as the sun started to fade. Have had chickens for over 50 years, and never have I had problems with them returning to "home" ( the coop) in the evening unless they were traumatized by something chasing them or such. One of the reasons I always let my show birds out in the late afternoon, alternating pens, so they could get some free ranging, and that they would go back in. Now some of the game birds would go for a tree, but not my laying hens and not the purebreds.
The turkeys would go for a tree as soon as they could fly up there.
And guineas didn't have a lick of sense to go in anytime, they would sit on a rail fence out in the open and the owl would come pick them off if I didn't chase them in.

Mine would always go back to the coop to roost as well. Every once in a while like @farmerjan said, if they are traumatized, I'd find them roosting on top of my truck in the carport.

farmerjan said:

Boy, everyone is everyone's FRIEND on here right now and "talking" to everyone.....

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Well if any of you win, I won't be your friend until you are broke again. Just in case you get all uppity