IDLE CHIT CHAT

[Quail_Antwerp]

Also, the only fact, per se, is that Quail said this man has been arrested and charged. he has not been convicted. The wife assault is suspected-not confirmed. So all this is speculation which IMO= gossip.

Sorry, I hate to be a party pooper, and I certainly do not condone any such behaviour towards women or children. But I don';t think it is our place to convict ppl on the little info we have.

The man arrested has admitted he did what he was accused of. He convicted himself!

I suspected the wife was abused, my husband witnessed her being beaten by her husband while she was pregnant. I cannot say I know she was abused, because I wasn't living in this area at the time my husband saw what he did. My husband had reported what he saw, but since she wasn't willing to press charges on her husband, the police did nothing.

I am not trying to gossip about my neighbors. I am mostly appalled that this happened so close to my home.

As for her having some guilt, Dace, I can understand where you are coming from. I am not an abused wife, but I was molested as a child. For years, and I mean well into my adult life, I believed I was at fault for what happened to me. I was 7 at the time, was too scared to tell the person who was molesting me no, so some part of me felt I had allowed it to happen. I know from what I experienced that I don't want any of my children to go through that, and I would have a very hard time not murdering the person who did that to my child.

There are women who are so beaten down by their husbands, that like reinbeau said, they are too scared to leave, to try to stop what is happening.




But, on to happier talks, right?




I just splurged on my kids and got them something I never get them, Cherry 7Up and M&M's....you would think it was Christmas with how excited they are!

 

[patandchickens]

Most independent yet married women have no idea what it's like to live in an abusive relationship. <snip> Of course she should have protected her kids - she probably thought she was protecting them, by making sure he didn't kill them. Seriously.

Indeed.

If you haven't been there you have no idea, you just have NO idea. Things look completely different; options look completely different; doing-the-best-thing-you-can-arrange looks completely different.

Of course that doesn't make it *okay* to let abuse continue, but it can be *understandable*, and warrant sympathy, not hostility, I think :/

Some shoes it is good not to HAVE to walk a mile in, but remember, not everyone's that fortunate.

Pat

 

[MorelCabin]

Most independent yet married women have no idea what it's like to live in an abusive relationship. <snip> Of course she should have protected her kids - she probably thought she was protecting them, by making sure he didn't kill them. Seriously.

Indeed.

If you haven't been there you have no idea, you just have NO idea. Things look completely different; options look completely different; doing-the-best-thing-you-can-arrange looks completely different.

Of course that doesn't make it *okay* to let abuse continue, but it can be *understandable*, and warrant sympathy, not hostility, I think :/

Some shoes it is good not to HAVE to walk a mile in, but remember, not everyone's that fortunate.

Pat

Okay time to edit this post...sometimes I tell wayyy too much

 

[Dace]

Morel...I am so sorry to hear that you had to deal with such a horrible situation! You are a very strong woman.

 

[FarmerChick]

holy moly
idle chit chat?????
LOL
the thread started so lighthearted and then I was blown away by the harshness that came...WHEW

well for me I am posting I guess to keep my numbers up......hehehehe....I never noticed the post counts for everyone???

and

got home from camping and had a blast. Fall color in the mountains was nice...golds and reds...they just floor me. Love the color!

Tasty trout too!

I was going to jump into the other conversations but decided no, want to chat about happier things today!

Morel---sorry for your dilemna with your DD.....kids!!!! what else can ya say. growing up will be hard for her to do cause when the baby comes, whoosh, slap in the face big time.....so hope it all works out for her and you and hope you can get some wonderful time with that grandbaby!!!!

 

[the simple life]

Hey welcome back Karen,
I was surprised how this thread turned too, I thought we would talk about .. I don't know, something else.
You know Ticks is serious about his place at the top of the posts :lol
I am sure this topic has kept him from posting so I guess that was good for your.
So you had some good weather there then? This is such a great time to camp.
Did you pack alot of food or were your intentions to live off of what you could catch more or less.
Not that you could catch any cereal for breakfast
So you missed it, I got my first egg this weekend.
Finally, I have gotten a couple of more since but I think its all from the same girl.
Although, I found an egg in the other coop today, where she doesn't live.
I let the girls out of both coops this morning and there were no eggs in either coop.
Then later on in the afternoon I went in to see if I needed to refill the water and there was an egg in a nestbox, but its in the other coop where the younger girls reside.
Not that they couldn't have started laying since they are 20 weeks, but this egg looks exactly like the others I have gotten from her.
So that is my big mystery today, did someone else start laying or did she sneak into the other coop to lay........

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

My ducklings should arrive tomorrow!! WOOT!!

I am sorry for the seriousness the intruded the thread. My fault. I will try to keep my topics more light hearted from now on!

*raises right hand* I solemnly promise to be a good girl from here on!

 

[FarmerChick]

Quail---no problem to me at all....just the way the thread headed....just surprised me by the title and then WOW...serious stuff...LOL-LOL---happens all the times in threads. I just commented cause it caught me by SURPRISE....


HI SIMPLE
ahhh, haaa, the mystery egg...LOL....aren't they sooooo tiny they are sooo cute. would you believe my customers pay top dollar for my pullet eggs. some customers only want the "new tiny" eggs.

it is probably her. but like you said, at 20 weeks you could have an explosion of tiny eggs, kinda like when one goat has kids, all does blow at the same time. So this chick might have started something..HA HA HA

 

[FarmerChick]

oh simple
forgot to say.....I don't camp like I used too when younger. I tent camped and roughed it etc.

now I have a camper with slides....so I certainly don't have it rough. I bring all salad stuff and veggies mainly for me along with pork chops for the grill and such.....then I bring frozen mac n cheese for Tony and Nicole.

Nicole is a great eater of veggies, I taught her that!

but Tony wants the "side stuff" and since I ain't "truly cooking" on my mini camping vacations, I nuke it....HA HA HA

sad but true....

 

[the simple life]

Hey don't worry about it, Ticks is a nice yong man in, I think eighth grade, he raises pheasants and ducks.
I remember a while back, maybe over the summer someone thought he was a girl, he said he would have to try to sound more manly on the forums.jhaha
He is really mature and interested in alot of stuff.
You'll like him.