A very Happy Anniversary to you both, I hope you have a wonderful day and many, many more anniversaries to celebrate Sully! xoxo Carol K in Michigan On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Shirley Sullivan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > My husband grew up in a area of California, that at one time was consider > out in country, his family raised their own chickens, also had rabbits, and > three ducks. They had White leg chickens ( he didn't know the breed name) > for eggs, and the had Bantams just because??? There was neighbor down the > street, that had so many chicken, they lived in her big barn, he said she > was strange, everyone thought she was a little crazy. They had several > cats, and two or three dogs, I knew he told me he had two snakes at one > time, and he also had 150 pigeons, they lived in one of their garages, he > built boxes for them to lay their eggs in and care for their young. Down at > the end of their street, their was White's Stables, they boarded horses, > and you could ride horses for a price. Now that same area is a city, and I > don't know if they allow you to raise poultry on your property any more. > About forty years ago our youngest son wanted to have some pigeons, so my > husband converted a old play! > building into a pigeon coop. We started with maybe five pigeons, and > they just laying eggs, I told my husband he had to do something, just to > many pigeons !!! So he sold all of them to another pigeon breeder, our son > was a little sad, except when he didn't have to clean the pigeon coop out, > he didn't miss them for long, in high school he joined Future Farms of > America, and raised a Ewe named Jalopy, she was all white, he won a blue > ribbon at the County Fair for her wool, she was not raised for meat. > > > Today is our 56th wedding anniversary, we gave each other cards, he bought > me two wind chimes, said he got them at Rite Aid Drugs, where be bought the > card, they were on special and he got half off that with our store card. I > didn't get him anything, but am making him a special dinner. Not very > exciting is it, but it's the way we want it, easy, and simple. > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >