Friday Random Wrap-Up

[dalthauser]

*  Earlier this week I attempted to repair my leaking tub spigot (SPIGOT!!).  I met a nice gentleman at Lowes who was kind enough to offer to come over and assist me since I'd made over 4 trips to the store that day trying different things.  That evening when I got home I went ahead and put everything back together and turned the water on - voila!  No leak (well, just an intermittant drip which was nothing).  So - it's all good for now.  I did learn some things from the experience though which is good, and I made a friend who told me to keep his number in case the drip decides to come back.



*  I still haven't found my cell phone that I lost just before Christmas.  Frustrating.

*  I ordered my chickens Tuesday.  They are Delawares - I bought 25 females and 1 rooster.  I plan on only having a flock of a dozen, but I needed the extras for warmth while traveling - the extras that make it to adulthood I can easily sell to someone who wants an egg laying pet.

*  I placed an ad on Craigslist looking for someone to help me build my chicken coop.  I offered vegetables and eggs in exchange.  I got many replies.  One from someone with the email address of DrtyCowboy1@chooseaserver.com  and one from a man who says he's too far away to help, but shared a poem with me about naked people..... :-)  Most of the replies were helpful though.

*  I watched Santa Clause 3 last night.  It was pretty good - seemed really low budget - but I really liked Jack Frost though.

*  With the whole housing crisis and recession in the news I'm reminded to be grateful that I own my home with a reasonable low interest mortgage that - as long as I'm employed - I can afford to make payments on every month.  There are plenty of people not as fortunate as I am.  I feel very poor most days, but I don't have the massive credit card debt other people have, and I live within my means - so that's something. 

*  Here is a random picture of me brushing my teeth .........

Comments

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

Three cheers for fixing the problem; I hate plumbing!

Update about the chickens.

There has been a combination of greed (by all parties concerend) and bad judgement that has gotten a lot of people in trouble.

What kind of toothpaste?

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

It's Tom's of Maine usually. I have a prescription paste I use if my teeth are sensitive to cold (which happens sporadically).

[reyvin.livejournal.com]

That's great that you got the leak fixed. :)

Craig's List is so cool and very helpful and handy but man there's some real whackos on there sometimes.

Good luck with the chicken farm.

You're very lucky to be in a place where you don't have a lot of debt and can afford your house payment. I wasn't so lucky. :( But at least now I'm learning to live within my means and on cash alone. I won't ever be in debt again that's for sure.

[holmes-sherlock.livejournal.com]

Cute photo. hehehe

Don't worry about your phone. Like my digital camera battery charger it will eventually show up. I lost the darn thing while still at my mom's house in Missouri and thought I'd left it there when I left to come to Texas. But I found it after I got moved into the new house.

Have a good day and remember--brush your teeth twice a day and eat an apple.

hehehe

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is that the charger is gone too - phone AND charger. Strange. I'm pretty certain someone didn't come into my house and just take the cell phone.... hahaha. I was doing to field day cleaning of the kitchen around the time it came up missing. I hope (though I fear) I didn't throw it in the garbage along with a lot of clutter.

[papoose.livejournal.com]

Chickens! I want chickens!

Dangit. Why'd I have to be a city girl?

[liz-uk.livejournal.com]

With the whole housing crisis and recession in the news I'm reminded to be grateful that I own my home with a reasonable low interest mortgage that - as long as I'm employed - I can afford to make payments on every month. There are plenty of people not as fortunate as I am. I feel very poor most days, but I don't have the massive credit card debt other people have, and I live within my means - so that's something.

The same scenario is being played out here, house prices are stagnant or going down, Credit Card debt is around 4 billion and repossessions are getting common. [I've always belived house prices should be capped] We're glad we don't have a mortgage.

[k2rider78.livejournal.com]

That is pretty cool you were able to fix the spigot.
I'm really impressed with that and that you are going to raise chickens.

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the vote of confidence! :-)

I'll be posting many pictures! - very excited about all this. This is just another piece of my dream. Have a little "homestead" with garden and farm animals. It ain't perfect (I live in >>TEXAS<< afterall....), but it's definately close.