It's the little things that make you happy!

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Yepper. I know the NC eggs laws and I know how to grade and size eggs. You give me an egg and I'll tell you it's grade and I'll tell you what size it is.

Sure I'll do it, for a small fee.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Ahh Southern, what a great day for you! That's a lot of eggs to sell!

That "something in the air" has not quite reached Northern VA yet. I'm hoping for a miracle, because the house is actually clean for Thanksgiving and I am begging the two pigs, (not the teacup ones, I'm talking about Tim and Annie ) , to not make any messes until after Thanksgiving. Tomorrow is pie day, they want to make about 8 pies, so I am REALLY hoping for a miracle!

 

[Southern by choice]

Thanks Bridge, I am happy, happy, happy when we are selling eggs! Really helps with the feed bills! No matter how many eggs we get I still get so happy to see all the pretty colors. Our customers like it too! I just can't figure out the right settings on the camera, the pics never come out with the right colors.


I hope the pies go well! What kind are you making? Pecan????
I just wish I was in the Bahamas! That would be a great holiday!
Are you having your family over? My "sis" and "niece" will be over so that will be nice!

I've got exciting news I'll have to pm you about! It has to do with your fav...sheep!

 

[Southern by choice]

Marlow- I know about the shoes... No matter how old they are I still hear "mom, do you know where my shoes are?".....Noooooo, I don't wear your shoes, if you'd a put em where they go then you'd have em. My one, (we've talked about him before) loses shoes like you wouldn't believe! My one little darling throws his dirty clothes RIGHT BESIDE the basket... WUHHHH, and always says "oh, I didn't know".

and people wonder why I love my "D" so much!

 

[marlowmanor]

Marlow- I know about the shoes... No matter how old they are I still hear "mom, do you know where my shoes are?".....Noooooo, I don't wear your shoes, if you'd a put em where they go then you'd have em. My one, (we've talked about him before) loses shoes like you wouldn't believe! My one little darling throws his dirty clothes RIGHT BESIDE the basket... WUHHHH, and always says "oh, I didn't know".

and people wonder why I love my "D" so much!

I just had to get onto Logan tonight for not getting his clothes in the basket when he got undressed for his bath. He left them right in the floor where he stood and took them off. I made him put them in the basket before I let him get his towel when he got out of the tub. We have a shelf in the living room where I tell them to put their shoes when they take them off so we know where they are. They don't always do it and I have to remind them to do it when I find the shoes left in the floor.

 

[CocoNUT]

Southern...my mom used to get on me all the time about making my bed growing up. I BEGGED and BEGGED for a comforter instead of the bedspread and pillows...she REFUSED. When I FINALLY got my comforter...it was MUCH easier to 'pick up' my bed and make it look decent without a TON of effort - nice. My mom used to also get on me about the 'clutter'...she's so right. I'm just one of those weirdos who gets VERY nervous when I can't see stuff! I'm TRYING though...I really am!

I can't get the DD to put her shoes in the same spot...or her socks in her drawer labeled "socks"....she doesn't make her bed...because she doesn't use a comforter...only a single blanket...no pillows. I drive myself NUTS trying to keep the place neat...and they just sit around and 'watch' me! Stinkers!

I'm slowly getting a little more organized.

Congrats on selling all those eggs! I LOVE collecting our eggs and seeing all the different shapes and colors too. They make me SOOO happy. I HATED having to buy store eggs when we were w/o chickens for a short spell before we moved. I felt so sad when I'd only see one color.

Oh and Bridge is correct...those "winds" haven't come this way yet! (Good luck on the baking tomorrow...the DD and I will be doing some baking of our own tomorrow as well!)

Bon - you stinker! I was trying NOT to go "there"...but I'm glad you caught my drift! Hey...if my DH cleaned the house/mopped the floors/WHATEVER on his own to butter me up for his own 'purposes'....I'd SERIOUSLY keel over and probably not 'come to' for a week!

 

[ragdollcatlady]

We mostly don't make beds here and I won't apologize for it....but....I love a made bed! I want sheets, yes I said sheets, top and bottom! and blankets or quilts or I won't sleep in it! DH actually hunted down the sheets when he missed me too much and I pointed out that after 20 years he should know that I won't sleep in a bed without sheets!.....

For my kids, I went to really nice Coleman sleeping bags that are (supposed to) top a fitted sheet over the mattress....easy to make look tidy....super comfy for sleeping!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Hah you guys crack me up!

I have a new solution for the socks and shoes that the family unit leaves laying around. They now end up in the "pig sty." Yes, the little teacup piggies drag any shoes or socks they find laying around into their little pig sty box in the mud room, never to be seen again. I encourage it

Southern how many chickens do you have? Because that's a lot of eggs to gather up in a couple of days. We've been scrambling around looking for eggs because it seems all our customers are stopping and looking for them. And my chickens lay their eggs in the darndest spots! In the feed bin, behind the bales of alfalfa, in the hay lofts, but NEVER in the nesting boxes

Oh and Southern, you better PM me, you can't keep me in suspense like this!

 

[Southern by choice]

Shoes! Lets see, sitting here at the computer... I count 7 pair, I also have a shoe chest right beside me filled with shoes, let me look out the side door and count the ones on the stairs and porch.... 5 and 1/2.... right there on the porch I have ELFA drawers with at least 30 pair! That will get done today! The worst part... most are farm shoes/boots!

How many chickens...????? 200 or so... We probably only have 75 laying and out of those we have probably 2 dozen that lay everywhere, usually trying to make a new nest and hatch out something. So we only gather about 4 dozen from the boxes or hay feeders a day.
Soon I will be getting rid of the mutts from all the hatches from summer. Sell or dog food...they have to go. My goal is to just have my breeding stock with a few pets. That will put me to about 125. I need to actively work on this now so I can separate my Roos out in Jan. Breeding will begin mid-late Feb for March hatches. I have a big blue barrel that I want to put in the woods, a friend of mine did that and her birds stopped laying behind every log and started using the barrel, she now gets another 3 dozen a day just from the barrel! My pyrs love to find eggs.. and eat them! UGH!

Hoping the "winds" move up to you and Coconut!

Ragdoll- my one son LOVES a sleeping bag but it slides everywhere so in the middle of the night you hear this "thud" from him sliding right off the bed! I love clean crisp sheets too! I use to change my sheets everyday, not anymore now it's once a week! All cotton with a minimum of 800 thread count.... OH YEAH..... My DH picked up a set of sheets he saw a good price on it was a cotton/polyester blend. I was just looking at him going POLYESTER, are flippin crazy, polyester "BLEEENNDD"

I have found if you just watch ONE episode of hoarders you will be so motivated your whole house will be clean in 2 days! My kids say to me.. OH NO, she's watching hoarders again.... she's gonna go crazy cleaning!

My favorite organizational tool... 2 words.... LABEL MAKER!

 

[GoatCrazyLady]

I'd be in total shock as well. cute story