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Post by iowgirl on Aug 3, 2021 21:35:33 GMT
So, ideally no farrowing crates at all?
Do you know what that would do?
I can understand wanting humane treatment, and there are some instances where sows are kept in farrowing crates far to long or having farrowing crates that are a horrid design. But farrowing crates are used for a reason - all around the world.
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Post by iowgirl on Aug 3, 2021 21:28:45 GMT
I will be the lone dissenter on this issue. I am pro vaccine, but I also acknowledge that this vaccine has not been fully approved, we do not fully know what it will or will not do. I do not believe in mandating such a vaccine AT THIS STAGE of it's existence. Once it has gone through the proper channels, we can look at mandating. Yes I also believe in science so I realize I am in the small majority who feel this way. A voice of reason! Yes! You are not the lone dissenter. I agree 100% with you. People need to take a step back and look at what they are doing. I also agree with getting vaccinated, but there is a thin line here.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 31, 2021 22:01:29 GMT
In the current climate, it seems the only ones hiring are fast food and restaurants, which still don’t pay enough to support a family. Jobs that don’t require some kind of formal training, but still pay a living wage, are hard to come by everywhere. I think many don't understand how bad it is. They say people should just get a job, but how can a person support themselves and a family with fast food jobs, or jobs that are not full time with low wages. Something needs to change. The top exec's get richer and the workers are poor. The middle is shrinking. I am thankful we can earn a good living with farming/ranching, for the most part. Some years are good, some are not, and it is an everyday year round job. Our kids all have good paying jobs now too, but I feel so much for those working hard and just sliding backwards. I would want to just give up also.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 31, 2021 12:52:25 GMT
It’s a smallish city in Kansas. Jobs are probably not very plentiful. It's the 5th largest city in Kansas with a population of over 126,000, with a 'metro' population of over 230,000. I know that sounds small to some, but if there are not better jobs there, then there are not better jobs anywhere (which is probably pretty accurate )
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 28, 2021 19:39:19 GMT
I was like, gee imagine how annoyed you'd be is you made shit money and never got a day off. Be a farmer/rancher. I haven't followed their situation too closely, but it does sound like an awful work environment. Something has got to give at some point, with people at the top making beyond ridiculous salaries, and the people who make it work getting poverty wages. When Bezo's thanked the people who shop at Amazon and the workers for making it possible for him to (almost) go to space, I wanted to puke. I think twice about any purchases from Amazon and have changed my shopping as much as I can.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 20, 2021 12:50:08 GMT
I had an experience with gramma when we went to lunch together last month. gramma wanted to take cookies back to my grandchildren, so she asked for a half dozen cookies. The young clerk said, "OK, how many?" gramma replied, "a half dozen". The girl looked like a deer in the headlights. Luckily, gramma helped her out with "that's 6." I'm amazed at what our children are not learning in the practical applications department. I once ordered 12" sandwich at Subway. The girl looked at me very confused and said they only had 6" and foot long. So I said, OK - make it a foot long If they get cash, it’s bills and they just hand over paper money and get change. My 16 year old niece is the same way with change. However she gave up on coins in kindergarten once she learned paper money is worth more. She couldn’t tell the difference between a penny, nickel, dime or quarter. Ask her to go in your wallet to get money for ice cream and she’d always pull out the $20 🤣 THIS! I worked a lot of concession stands during my kids sports careers and the amount of kids that would bring a $20 to pay for a .50 item, and then come back later with another $20 for the same .50 candy blew my mind! I couldn't decide if they were working the game with the parent and keeping the change, or if they just had a pocketful of cash. I often had to yell at them to come back for their change. They'd hand me the $20 and just walk off when I handed them the candy. I absolutely do not do things for them that they can do for themselves. I'm working on teaching them lifeskills. This needs to happen more! I started my kids very young with ordering their own food at fast food places, and understanding how to pay for it and get the right change back. It helps them interact with adults and people in general too. I really think we are starting to raise kids that are terrified of the world and just can't interact anymore. One of the 'games' we played when they were young was "Grocery Store" .. I put real money/change in a toy cash register and they would use it to make change. I see so many posts on Facebook about how the schools need to teach kids life skills like banking, money management, taxes how to vote, etc.. .. I'm sitting there thinking what are parents supposed to be teaching kids also! We started paying our kids quite young for work on the farm. Not huge amounts when they were super young, but enough that we could teach them money management skills. They went to the bank and deposited their money, balanced their books and talked to the banker. Maybe it is the small town aspect, but the bank was always willing to work with the kids and show them how to deal with banking matters. They were more than happy to do this. They also started having to file taxes fairly young. I know that it's not possible for every kid to be able to work and need to file taxes, but the parents should at least clue them in one what they are doing every year. Our school did have a "Life Skills" class. It was a pretty easy class, but they did show kids how to at least make a meal, some basic accounting, and some auto skills like checking oil, changing a tire etc. My kids never took the class, because that was part of everyday life for them. Kids also need to be taught (either at home or at school) what all these MLM business do, so they can NOT get lured in to these cockamamie schemes. They think they are getting an actual job or starting their own business and loosing so much money and even ruining their credit.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 19, 2021 15:40:56 GMT
Yes, the computer chips. I know it’s sound crazy but the recliners now have motorized buttons to recline 😁 If you could only imagine how long it took to find a Lazy Boy recliner that did not have 'technology'. DH replaced his 30 year old leather recliner last year, and it took a good long search to find one that fit his tall frame, was not 'electric' and was a Lazy Boy brand. But we have it. He's in his mid 50's, and with his track record of keeping furniture, I'm pretty sure this is the last one we will ever purchase!
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 16, 2021 2:24:41 GMT
My brother.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 13, 2021 18:56:48 GMT
I have always had trouble with adding text in the photo books.
I just make an entire page in different software Photoshop, Silhouette Studio, etc) and upload the finished page, instead of trying to work with the tools that the book apps have.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 8, 2021 16:24:20 GMT
I don't want anyone knocking on my door from the government. Thanks very much. But I would not be happy to see them either.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 8, 2021 13:10:29 GMT
I wish!
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 8, 2021 13:08:28 GMT
Is this worth giving to someone? I thought about listing it on a "free" FB page. Just make sure they know it is cartridge based only - and there is no way they can hook it up to their computer and use fonts, etc. I think a lot of people still love them, but there can be a lot of confusion about what can be done with them, outside of using a cartridge.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 8, 2021 13:04:28 GMT
but he asked for dd (21) by name. Maybe she signed for something at an event as a way to get something free. I can't imagine where else she would have come across a recruiter to give them her name as she's not been in any kind of educational system in two years and even then the last couple of years were all online due to her health issues. But who knows. I am guessing it is still info from her ASVAB test in High School. Most kids take it automatically, and they may be going through records and her score may have been something for them to take a second look at. One of my DD's was contacted quite a few times while at college. Navy wanted to give her a free ride. She had some athletics, and she had a very high GPA in her engineering major, and had a super high ASVAB score in high school (high 90's). She had no interest in the military, but if she did, it would have been a good way for her to go. So if your daughter had some good scores - they don't give up right away.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 6, 2021 13:16:24 GMT
The check will be substantial enough that it will cover a very nice wedding, assuming the groom's family helps a bit and the happy couple pitches in a bit as well. I am curious as to what amount is a 'very nice' wedding. Not specifically what you paid, but what would everyone think in general? I know wedding costs are all over the place, and a lot depends on the area you live in. Our daughters wedding was a couple years ago, and I never really sat down and totaled it up. She paid for the photographer and bought her own dress, against my protest, but she did it anyway. She could easily afford it, and I know it was less that 1K, because I laughed and told her I paid more for her 2 prom dresses! They had around 225 guests. The caterer was $2250 plus tip (and their food is flat out amazing!). Amazing venue (had access for 5 days) was $800. DJ, decorations, invites, was probably around $1500. Grooms parents paid 1500 for the open bar and we picked up the rest of the night after that, and it was around $700. That wouldn't come close to a down payment - even on cheap houses! LOL And it was a really nice wedding! Not a dripping diamonds ice sculpture type of wedding, but a very enjoyable tasteful wedding. Both are at that age where friends are getting married and both are annoyed at how needy everyone is. Engagement parties. Bachlorette parties at locations that require flying somewhere and spending lots of $. And then the showers. And finally the actual wedding. Whew - this is my younger daughter. The engagement parties, bachelorette parties, and all that goes with those. Some destination weddings, etc. It is just crazy how some of these become such an event, and the couple just seems miserable and fights all the time.
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 6, 2021 12:56:10 GMT
I bought my first couch after 25 years of marriage. DH had a couch before we were married that he had purchased new. I both loved and hated what I bought. It was so huge (it didn't look that huge in the showroom) and the recliner part was almost impossible for me to lock shut. Luckily my daughter loved it, so when she moved to her first non-college apartment, it went with her. It was just a couple years old, and I bought the one I currently have. I also bought myself a new smaller recliner and DH bought a new recliner at the same time we bought this last couch. I replaced my bed frame a couple years ago. What we had been using was DH's from when he graduated college, and it had been a hand me down then. I found an antique sleigh bed for $100. I love it! We sleep in a double/full size bed, so the antique frame was perfect! I bought our kitchen table about 30 years ago. That's it! Dining room table and chairs, china hutch, etc. are family pieces handed down. Now appliances - I feel like I do a total replace every 10 years, not that I want to!
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Post by iowgirl on Jul 4, 2021 15:31:00 GMT
It only takes one mistake, and it is a tragedy.
I am a gun owner, and our guns are always under lock and the ammo is in a different safe under lock. Something could still go tragically wrong. There is no doubt about it.
My kids were taught from as soon as possible about gun safety. I was the freak out Mom when it came to play guns and pointing them at people. I wouldn't even go for Nerf guns being shot at people. It is just a hard NO 100% of the time. Never EVER point any type of gun at a person ever. I was not above yelling at someones kid who broke that rule. I also found out some kids never get yelled at (when they need it). My kids always check a gun when they pick it up, even if the person handing it to them checked it right before handing it off. It's habit, that is what guns safety is.
I was proud of my kid, who went to school sanctioned trap shoot/picnic. He immediately felt unsafe there. He told the teachers/sponsors of the event that things were unsafe and they basically laughed him off. He put his gun in the case and left. Nothing bad happened that night, but my kid knew what to do, because he was always taught gun safety is a #1 priority, 100% of the time. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think they are all that with guns that are the worst offenders.
People that allow unsafe guns in their home should be fully prosecuted. If they don't have it ingrained in their kids' head that you don't fuck around with any firearm, and this kind of tragedy happens, the gun owner should be held for murder.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 30, 2021 21:49:40 GMT
The Iowa governor is sending our State Troopers! She can't spend enough money to have more of them patrol our highways, but she ships them off to the Texas border.
It's all a political stunt.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 30, 2021 21:36:06 GMT
Wow - I expected to read that he had died, when I opened this up. Damn.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 29, 2021 13:21:36 GMT
I thought my canisters were bug-proof. They are glass jars with a plastic seal. But apparently, they’re not. They probably are impervious to bugs coming in from the outside, but all cereal grain products have weevils. The female weevil lays an egg in the grain. Most are eliminated in the flour milling process, but not all. If your pantry is warm or if the flour is old and the eggs have matured - they hatch...INSIDE your container. This is why you should store flour in a freezer if you are not using it quickly. Yours have just hatched inside your containers. It's nothing new. Your flours and pastas have always had these. Cake mixes, breakfast cereals anything that has flour or grain and isn't fully cooked. It is even safe to still use the flour, just sift it with a fine screen. (Yea - I know - I would toss it too)... but honestly - the weevils are always there, they just didn't hatch out. That is why you bake things and cook things well that contain flour. I keep reading this as "panty". I need to put my glasses on I guess. Panty is much funnier! LOL And those bugs are probably harder to get rid of!
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 29, 2021 13:13:40 GMT
I've heard vague rumors that some crematoriums will sift those and break up the bigger pieces. The ashes and any thing remaining is sorted through. Any 'new' body parts (hips, screws, etc) is tossed. The remaining bones are put through a hammer mill to pulverize, then it is sealed in a bag. I’m wondering what the plots are for if you’re being cremated Most people I know have the urn interred at a cemetery with a head stone. I know there is a lot of ash spreading done, without any real permission. It is not really a legal thing to do, but who is going to know. I know of a few that split up the ashes, so family members can all have a little bit. Funerals, even cremations, are shockingly expensive and real hardship for many. Just think about it, if rent and food are an issue every month - toss in a several thousand dollar funeral on that. I see a lot of Go Fund Me's for funerals. That is so sad. One young gal lost her mom in a horrific car accident. It was so bad. But the local funeral director, who also had to collect the remains from the scene, really helped her out and was able to go through the Iowa Cremation Society for a very low cost service. But in Iowa, the lowest cost is just under $1000. Social Security will pay about $250 for death expense, if you qualify. It's tough. When a loved one passes, you are under major stress. The though of doing the 'cheapest' option can be off-putting. To say the least. Immediate cremation is the cheapest, but as it says - it is immediate. It's hard to process that sometimes. So do you family a favor. Express your wishes and have them in writing! That way they know. They can say "This is exactly what Mom wanted" .. it makes a difference. Spending 5K to 20K is just nuts.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 23, 2021 13:30:32 GMT
If that isn’t “assault” then I don’t know what is. IMO - any gun can be an 'assault weapon" ... I wish there was a better way to stop people who shouldn't have any kind of weapon. The person I knew who took his life and the life of two innocent people used a 12 gauge shot gun. He should have never had that gun, but his family allowed him to have it. He was an adult (age 22) , who already had one 5150, and he might have had two. I believe the time period to own or posses a firearm after a 5150 is 5 years. His family was in major denial about his issues, and allowed him to have firearms, because he 'loved to hunt' and in their eyes, there was nothing wrong. To this day, I do not understand why his family was not held accountable. This should be a part of what people want for gun control. One of the victims parents tried to sue them, but nothing came of it. I feel like the family that allowed him to have that gun (and I know for a fact he was allowed to have all his guns back from his family) should have been financially liable. They are devastated by the loss, but they were in no way held accountable. This still bothers me. They have the kind of money that allows them to hire the type of lawyer that will either string out the case forever or just not lose.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 23, 2021 3:00:01 GMT
But an AR15 is not technically an assault rifle.
I have one. I love it. But it is not an assault rifle, by definition.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 16, 2021 19:29:55 GMT
You just don't expect something like this to happen to someone you know. It just rips through you on a different note, doesn't it. I knew someone who murdered 2 people and then died by suicide after. At the time it was just unbelievable. It has been many years, but I still think of it often. I can remember exactly what I was doing when I found out. What the weather felt like, just everything about that time is crystal clear, like it was yesterday.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 14, 2021 15:25:30 GMT
Smoking meat is a learning process and frustrating at times. Your pork looks like it has a fantastic 'bark' - which is what you want (as long as it doesn't get too hard). I am not sure what kind of smoker you have? I have a Treager pellet type, and it is a continuous love/hate relationship! LOL Don't be afraid to pull something off the smoker, wrap it, and finish it in the oven. You could have done your full size pork shoulder in the same amount of time as the cut - but it is easier sometimes to have a smaller size. The time is crazy though, that it took. I recommend getting a really good thermometer. The best I have used is a DOT thermometer from ThermoWorks. You can leave it in the meat the entire time. I have more than one, I have one that I use to measure the ambient temperature inside the smoker, as I don't think my smokers thermometer is accurate at all. You can order the 'air temp' probe to fit the DOT. The quality of the THermoWorks thermometers are top notch. They are worth the price. ThermoWorks DOT thermometerOnly buy from their website, not Amazon. Amazon is not genuine.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 14, 2021 15:15:33 GMT
My dh says that we need oil for everything. That basically everything is made from a oil/petroleum product, and if oil production is decreased we won't function as a country. That the USA is built on oil. He is not all wrong on this. People can tend to see a smaller picture, as in burning fossil fuels for vehicle fuels, etc. If you look deeply into what the petroleum industry covers, it is not just gas in your car. It is damn near everything you use on a daily basis. Look at North Face. They (allegedly) refused to do a custom jacket order for a petroleum company, based on environmental concerns. The petroleum industry clapped back at NF, noting nearly all their products they produce rely on the petroleum industry. It's a complex subject for sure. I can see your side and reasoning, but he is not wrong either!
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 14, 2021 15:03:14 GMT
I grill a lot. DH doesn't want heavy foods, but he still needs the calories to get through the day. I tend to go with more chicken and pork during the summer months. Grilled meat sandwiches usually at dinner (that's the noon meal for us). And I might do something like a grilled chicken salad with hard boiled eggs, cheese, etc. on it, for supper. I also use my smoker quite a bit for things like ribs, pulled pork, etc. Burgers are good on the smoker too. It's a little bit cooler out so far today, so it is a prime pork roast, with carrots, mashed potatoes, and I am not sure what else. LOL I need to get cooking! I usually have pasta and potato salads on hand when we are busy with planting, cow working, and harvest - so I tend to not have those all the time in the summer, so we don't get burnt out on them. DH likes a little something sweet sometimes, so a Jello Poke Cake topped with cool whip goes over big! Just a small slice of that seems to hit the spot when he comes in for coffee break. I keep giant pitchers of brewed iced tea on hand too - and I am a Midwesterner, so none of that sweet tea!
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 12, 2021 14:10:37 GMT
It could be worse!
My neighbor put in a giant hog manure storage tank, right across the road from my house. It summer breeze blows right across it and into my place. I would say at least 300 days of the year smell like hog manure here. Some days are much worse than others. If the manure is being agitated, before pumping it out, it really smells like death and shit.
Nice beautiful summer night? The smell of hog shit just hovers over everything.
I never ever have my windows open in my house.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 10, 2021 13:21:38 GMT
My sister's boyfriend is wealthy. He ended up owing $65K in taxes this year and he was pissed saying had he known he would've bought another 'work' truck. How nice, you find out you owe taxes and can buy a $65K truck so you don't have to pay taxes...meanwhile, a few years ago I owed $1200 as a single parent and I was crying, wondering how the eff I was going to find that money. If he is making that kind of money, he is not managing it well. If he doesn't know he needs an expense to offset that tax bill before it is too late. I hope it was a lesson learned. Our tax bill (Federal) was around 12K this year. That is way more than we usually have to pay, but it made more sense to pay it, than to find any more expenses that were not necessary. But it would have been paying closer to what he paid, if we had not kept up our book work and knew what purchases were needed to offset the income. This year won't be a problem. We are doing some major infrastructure improvements on buildings, etc - so the money has already been spent! This year will be a net loss for sure.
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 8, 2021 16:32:14 GMT
I'm sorry I posted this .... I thought it might be helpful for others to understand how some pay no taxes. I did not know the details. I DID NOT SAY IT IS ILLEGAL!! It's a great discussion topic! I didn't feel like you were saying it was illegal at all! I think some (a lot, most?) news sources try to sensationalize topics and I love it when a good discussion can be had about it. That is one of the great things about the Peas!
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Post by iowgirl on Jun 8, 2021 15:15:42 GMT
but it turns out billionaires don't have to evade taxes exotically and illicitly — they can avoid them routinely and legally. I am a long way from a billionaire, but I spend a lot of time and have a great accountant that helps up get as close to possible to a zero or very low tax bill. If our income is going to be such that we will end up paying a large amount of tax on, we work to find expenses that will bring that total down. We pre-purchase our farm inputs. So in November and December, we sit down and figure out what we will be planting the following spring. How many acres of soybeans and how many acres of corn (there are a lot of factors determining what crop is planted on what piece of ground). We pre-purchase all our seed. Then we also pre-purchase our fertilizer and chemicals. We will also purchase all the fuel we will need for the following year. I buy Ag diesel, road diesel and gasahol in bulk. Then we look at how these purchases has offset out income. If we need more expense, we look at pre-purchasing cattle feed. Car dealers know that a LOT of new pickups will be sold in December, because that is another expense that can offset income. We have to be conscious all year of how the income/expense ratio is going. Some improvements like installing drainage tile, or new buildings, etc. need to be planned out. Our income happens about twice a year. We market our livestock Jan-Mar. So all income from that is paid in those three months. Grain is harvested in the fall, but we may or may not sell it. It can depend on overall price of the grain. How much storage is going to cost us (as we have very little on farm storage). And then again - income is not a guarantee! It is entirely possible to for expenses to out pace the income. Those are not great years. You also have to start looking at what you are purchasing. It, of course, needs to be a deductible expense. But sometimes you may be better off paying the income tax. It can be a long and complicated process, and it is the worst part of farming (for me). So these big guys are not doing anything wrong, as long as they are following the regulations. They are (hopefully) infusing the economy with money that they are spending to offset their tax bill. And just an FYI on farmers trying to avoid paying a large income tax bill- don't forget we have to pay a VERY large property tax bill. We pay many 10's of thousands of dollars in property taxes every year. This supports our schools, roads, fire departments, etc.
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