Can someone out there in blog land tell me what year this was manufactured? It was given to me and needs a  little work, but it can be very useable when the work is done...

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Its really kinda late in the year to oder chicks, but I had been wanting to order them for awhile now, but being the frugal woman I am I waited untill they were lower in price, they are still the same chicks only 'CHEAP'er....heehee...We always order from McMurray Hatchery and while I know they are a bit higher than other places I have never had an issue with them and they chicks arrive in top notch condition, so I am willing to pay a bit more for them...We ordered 50 layers. We ordered the "Brown Egg Layer Special" <--Click to see... and also the "Rainbow Egg Layer Special" <--Click to see  By April we should be seeing very increased egg production, we are hoping to moved to the farm in Oklahoma and begin selling our eggs to help pay for feed for all our critters.

Since our land is only 2 miles from a very popular fishing lake in that area we are also going to do 'worm farming' and sell worms for fishing...From what research we have done its relatively cheap to begin worm farming and can be a very profitable thing and since our Oklahoma farm is very close from a lake that is very busy in the spring and summer I think we could do pretty good at it...And our land does sit along a major hiway(hiway frontage). We are hopeful that we can come up with enough ventures to keep dh home and make enough money to survive and pay off the land in 1/2 the time.

So our goals are to raise and sell dairy goats with a herd of about 50, buy and sell chicks, sell eggs, raise chickens for food, raise and sell pigs but also use them for food for us, We would really like to raise guinea keets and sell them, we are also looking into selling ducks(mallard and rouen) and do the worm farm...with no more debt than we have this should be reasonable and taxes on our land are only 16.00 a year...LOL..can't beat that! Also dh does wood working type stuff, he builds chicken tractors, what we call rabbit tractors(will post a picture of one he built later), rabbit hutches, wooden nest boxes for chickens, he also build cute wooden bird houses, feed platforms for squirrels that attach to trees....just all kinds of stuff and we make a little extra money that way...God has blessed my husband with talent and we want to utilize it and give all the glory to God.

~Kris

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I love the blog the Deliberate Agraian and as I was visiting this morning I came across this great offer. http://thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com/ He is offering this book 1/2 price...I ordered mine...and thought a few of you might like to order one too!

~Kris

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This was an article on MSN this morning...If you read all the way through it to the end if you are intelligent enough to do so, you will see that you will be discovered somewhere somehow...I personally have all the information I need on my anonymous commentor and know where you are from, who your ISP is and I will spare the rest of the  details from the public...You will be found out...you really are not anonymous...just some people do not know how to find out who you are!

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One minute, they’re nice, normal people. The next, they’re frothing at the mouse.

“It’s mind-boggling the things people will say and even the things I will say,” says Catherine McIntyre, a 38-year-old medical billing specialist from Houston. “People who’d never say something horrible in real life will do it again and again and again online. It’s like the behavior of crowds, or those mass beatings where no one gets blamed because everyone’s at fault.”

Sheri Pineda, a 59-year-old customer service representative at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, Calif., encounters the same bad behavior in the after-hours messages left by her newspaper’s subscribers.

“It’s appalling the way people talk,” Pineda says. “They’ll rant and rave and cuss at us with extremely foul language. And I think a lot them specifically wait until we close the phones. They’re looking to let it all out and then get on with their day. And then they’re surprised when I get back to them. They’re like, ‘You actually heard that?’ and will be embarrassed.”

Hello. You have reached the split personality zone. Press 1 to melt down. Press 2 to hang up and act like a normal person again..............................................................................

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When I bought the mama the very end of August the people told me she was due September 1st, I kinda thought moving her would cause her to go into labor, no go and no big deal...but as days turned into weeks I began wonder when she was ever going to have these little darlings...everyday we would go out and do a good check and for about 3 days her tail ligaments were very loose so I knew it was really close...today DD and I decided to run to town and were gone about an hour, and when we got home we were shocked to see these little cuties...they are purebred Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats and mom and dad are both polled and registered...I get as excited about our new babies as most mamas do about their 'human' babies...LOL...I am very blessed!

~Kris

Below-- This shows just how small these little ones are. This is the doeling and my chihuahua...I think the dog is bigger than the goat...LOL...She is marked black and white and very sweet...they were still a little wet from birth and they look rather tired...and with good reason!

Below--This is the buckling next to the chihuahua--He is black from head to hip and then turns brown with a black strip, there is just a bit of white on the top of his head and it is shaped like a heart.

Below-- Here they are with their mama-- All are doing well and everyone is healthy and seemingly happy--Notice the little heart on the bucklings head? We normally sell the bucks but his markings are very pretty so I am thinking we will keep him for breeding next season!

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Why are such bizarre practices so popular? Why would anyone celebrate a holiday emphasizing the morbid and macabre? Where did such strange customs originate?

As with Christmas and Easter, we can trace the roots of Halloween far back into the pagan past. By medieval times Nov. 1 had been established as All Saints' Day. The evening before, Oct. 31, became Allhallows Eve, or Halloween, as it is known today.

The Encyclopedia of Religion says, "Halloween, or Allhallows Eve, is a festival celebrated on 31 October, the evening prior to the Christian Feast of All Saints (All Saints' Day). Halloween is the name for the eve of Samhain, a celebration marking the beginning of winter as well as the first day of the New Year within the ancient Celtic culture of the British Isles. The time of Samhain consisted of the eve of the feast and the day itself (31 October and 1 November)" (1987, p. 176, "Halloween").

Besides Halloween, the Celts observed many other holidays including the winter solstice (later transformed into Christmas); spring fertility rites (reborn later as Easter); May Day as a harvest festival; Feb. 2 as Candlemas, the supposed day of Jesus' presentation in the temple and the purification of Mary; and Lammas, a harvest festival on Aug. 1. In the United States Candlemas persists in Groundhog Day.

Concerning Halloween The Encyclopedia of Religion continues:

"On this occasion, it was believed that a gathering of supernatural forces occurred as during no other period of the year. The eve and day of Samhain were characterized as a time when the barriers between the human and supernatural worlds were broken. Otherworldly entities, such as the souls of the dead, were able to visit earthly inhabitants, and humans could take the opportunity to penetrate the domains of the gods and supernatural creatures.

"Fiery tributes and sacrifices of animals, crops, and possibly human beings were made to appease supernatural powers who controlled the fertility of the land . . . Samhain acknowledged the entire spectrum of nonhuman forces that roamed the earth during the period" (pp. 176-177).

On this holiday "huge bonfires were set on hilltops to frighten away evil spirits . . . The souls of the dead were supposed to revisit their homes on this day, and the autumnal festival acquired sinister significance, with ghosts, witches, hobgoblins, black cats, fairies, and demons of all kinds said to be roaming about. It was the time to placate the supernatural powers controlling the processes of nature. In addition, Halloween was thought to be the most favourable time for divinations concerning marriage, luck, health, and death. It was the only day on which the help of the devil was invoked for such purposes" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Micropaedia, Vol. IV, p. 862, "Halloween").

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http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/HH/halloween.asp

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