Thinking Things Would Slow Down, After Retirement

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  1. Jake Smith

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    Hopefully, things will get better for you. Things can get hard at times.
     
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    "Still not slowing down".


    Time to make new soil, with compost and transplant these.

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    Plants still growing.

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    Hope things get better for you Jacob.
     
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    Thanks @Marie Mallery @Jake Smith I might just be catching a case of drama queen. I suppose I could be struggling with the transition from my life of recent years to a future which radically breaks with that old way of life. Things that I once settled for as good enough now have the feeling of a mark of shame. However these dark things are counterbalanced by an incredible source of positive light that came from nowhere when I wasn't even looking upward.

    So in some ways this is a classic struggle between light and darkness. But it isn't so much light overcoming darkness as the light providing incentive to overcome the darkness myself. The silly part is that the "darkness" isn't actually all that dark, it's just intimidatingly massive to dig out from under.

    Thanks for the supportive sentiments.
     
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    Foxy and Leo are getting used to the new pens, Foxy even took time to chew her treat, a Ritz cracker with peanut butter.:D

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    Then she laid down as I was leaving, very different from yesterday; when she just barked all day.:D

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    Seems to be going in the right direction.
     
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    Not sure of your circumstances to reply, are you around others or could you do some type of exercise, walking is the best for me far as beating my depression and anxiety attacks, of course that's not an option for all of us. That and music helps at times too.
    A couple days this week I really felt bad. I'm feeling much better now but I do have those times. I don't claim to have answers for anyone but just letting you know somebody is outthere that hears you.
     
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    You're welcome, Jacob; you use big words like John Brunner, he's quite smart too. I have to read y'alls post, twice to be sure I am getting the point right. :)

    I have a thread on here called Stress a number one killer, IMO. which I've spoken about similar things and how things are finally a little better now. Maybe check that one out too, if you want.
     
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    It is, nice that she's quit yapping for a while anyway. :D Thanks.
     
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    Time to get busy. Jake made my search for sunflower 'orchard easier by deciding to put them in greenhouse in containers.
    But the I did go out and check the hens butts, and I do have a couple with DAMN pasty butts to clean after I catch them. Also need to clean out the pens, Lucile is not a happy camper she is cripple so she has her own pen away from the others.
    The poopy butt cleaning



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    I do not want to get off topic; but just curious, if any of you here know why they spay all those chemtrails into the air? The sky was so pretty and then I just walked out and this. :eek:

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    Back to the topic; I have to help Marie catch a couple of chickens so she can clean their butts.:D

    I've done it before too but the Demacious Earth usually keeps it away. :rolleyes: Anyways, not slowing down yet. :)
     
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    No poop on eggs yet,but decided to eat first, won't have much of an appetite after this job, so zI'm fixing us a open face turkey sandwich first,then go do the clean.
     
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    I don't believe those trails are chemicals at all; they are condensation or ice crystals which are a byproduct of burning jet fuel. There is a conspiracy theory about "chemical trails". Do y'all live near Eglin AFB?
     
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    Scratch the turkey sandwich idea, I just burnt it all to '''', forgot it was on.
    . Whole house is now smoky.:oops: Peanut butter was probably better anyway considering the task ahead.
     
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    Thanks, Beth;. Hope you are right, and not near base, just like the sky, blue and pretty like it used to be in the good old days. :)
     
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