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Now Hatching! Chickam2008 Is A Go! Come See Baby Chicks Hatching!
Comments (19)You know, it was not expensive in money OR time to do this, it was pretty darned simple. :) DH got a PS EyeToy color camera for $5.00 at Gamestop, and YahooLive is the host for the cam, sound and chat, at no cost to us. My husband had the know-how to get things going, but you can find out online and it isn't difficult or complicated. The number of people viewing the cam and talking in chat crashes my husband's computer sometimes, but we just restart things and everything's fine. We wanted to hatch chicks anyway, so thought we'd share the experience. The cam just pointed through the viewing panes in the lid of the incubator, now we set it inside the brooder box. Baby chicks DO have a wonderful effect on all who gaze upon them, it's like Valium for your eyes. *L* And yeah, it is VERY remarkable that Chicken Sister has babies this late in life--but then, both of the boys LOVE her to distraction, you should have seen them run over and burble over her when we brought her back from the vet after her egg-binding adventure. What a couple of love-struck chuckleheads. :) It was very sweet, they missed her so! We'll be hatching again the weekend of June 21st, and will resume chickam then, if anyone wants to watch. We will have our incubators issues solved before we start more eggs. Velvet ~:>...See MoreGo small or go home??
Comments (10)No, kirkhall is right -- I messed up. I was so focused on the main living quarters that I forgot to throw a few of the extras into the mix. There is also a powder, pantry, entrance hall and stairwell on that main floor, but yes, 800 sq feet for covered decks and balconies beyond the open air basement. Sorry about that! AnnieDeighnaugh, thanks for the tip. I'll head over to the smaller homes forum and have a look around before posting. Maybe someone will have posted a floor plan that will calm my nerves. I have read and enjoyed Sarah Susanka's books; I'll have to pull them out again and reread. Kirkhall, we don't have a floorplan yet, just some basic concept sketches showing the footprint and possible room interactions. Right now, the kitchen lies across one end of the great room, so would live in a space that measured 20 x maybe 12 feet (the 20 feet is based on external measurements, so actually less than that. We've been looking at small but clever kitchen designs to see how we can manage the space more creatively. As for closet space, no, we don't really need a coat closet -- just a "pool and beach closet" for toys and boogie boards. ;) That would be on the ground level. We don't actually have a great amount of clothing since the weather is pretty much the same here all year long. Ski stuff and clothes for traveling to the "real world" could easily be stored downstairs in a closet designed for that purpose -- good idea. I do think we would need a "master suite" with its own bath and a reasonable closet for resale, unless we can design something extremely cool! This post was edited by caymaiden on Fri, Mar 8, 13 at 13:37...See MoreAm I the only one going to a restaurant on Thanksgiving?
Comments (46)Colleen as you know Meredith is in Australia and I must say loving every moment! It's true she missed our Canadian Thanksgiving and Halloween too but she has learned so much about the diversity of our world. Australia has been such a welcoming country to our young people, an experience she will never forget. My worse fear is that she won't come home! She is a wee bit uptight about not having snow and a Christmas tree for Christmas but she promises me that she'll be over it in a flash as she lays on the beach with all her new found friends! PS: I make your chocolate cake too, it's the best!...See MoreHelping others who may be in need. How would you go about it?
Comments (22)We prefer to research charities that provide *vital* needs, and who screen for true need. You have to read a charity's annual report. See what percentage of the budget goes to those in need and what's salaries and overhead. (You run a business. You know what to look for!) Don't fall for 'Non-profit'. That only means the whole budget is used; you can find some amazing salaries, perks and rent kick-backs within a non-profit. We do not contribute small amounts here and there. We do not fund 'fuzzy', feel-good causes like Christmas toys or blankets for animals. We concentrate on three main charities. We don't fund national organizations; we give locally. 'Our' charities provide food, housing and medical/hospice care to people with verified need. I've learned to look carefully about where donations go. When I joined the board of our communty-based VNA it provided excellent home care and ran a free well-baby clinic. However, Mrs. Gotrocks paid the same pittance for care after her facelift as someone bedridden and scraping by on Social Security. We instituted a sliding fee scale. Also, there were separate VNA's in each of four communities in the same township -- each paying a supervisor, staff, rent and other overhead. Three supervisors and three landlords had to be edged out, but we combined into one VNA. (We became so organized that the local 'non-profit' hospital saw a business opportunity and started their own home health care division. No more community-based VNA.) A tenant of mine with a good union job once told me he always volunteered to deliver Thanksgiving turkeys to the needy. He said he had a year's supply in his freezer. I want my dollar stretched by a reputable, penny-pinching charity serving vital human needs of individuals who are truly in need....See Moresprtphntc7a
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