Thursday, March 29, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Well, call me "blushing"!
Dear Rebels,
I am an ASS. I did not read that entire article before I linked to it, and if I had I would have known it was bogus. There are a couple of ways to tell if your pieces are any good or not and the first is to do your research; secondly is to go with your gut and see if the article makes sense and is not too over the top. This one was. As I got closer to the bottom and the Author got more and more angry, I knew I was in trouble.
I have no excuses, but I will explain what happened. It is Spring Break around here, but for only half of my children; we have a case of unexpected Chicken Pox (and yes we were vaccinated) and things are nutty; I saw that article come across my email and it REALLY scared me, more on that in a minute. I started reading it, I swear I did....and messing with the "link to" buttons, and lo and behold there was one for Blogger. So I thought, what the hell???? Something distracted me, and that was that.
So, let's tackle this thing shall we? First and foremost, my apologies if I offended anyone (which I did). Period. Secondly, I truly am sorry for linking to bullshit; no other way to say it. I really try to pride myself on being an honest and up front writer with you all and that just really put a chip in my "armor" so to speak so let's just forget it happened, "K"? I could have just pulled that piece, but it still would have been cached, and it would not have been a reminder to myself of my mistake. As you see I did make a correction on that page.
Okay, so I tried to think through why I fell for this and it is because I truly feel that this is not far in the making. Through CREDIBLE research I have been reading all about raids on homes, yes homes of FAMILIES, that are being raided with guns abalazin' all at tax payers expense because of milk, eggs or cheese. This to me seems really quite incredible when our country is in such a time of crisis; like a foreclosure epidemic, a couple of possible overseas situations, starving residents, dirty oceans, my list could go on and on... Food that people are literally begging for does not top my list of things to prosecute people for.
I mean it really has nothing at all to do with what I do here on my own Ranch. Even if I did not sell my own products of this nature I would think this is total "you know what". I talked to a friend of mine, and this comes first hand. He had another friend that had a customer for three years. That customer talked him into harvesting some chickens for them; they begged him to do it, even after he explained the law, etc. Well, he went ahead and processed the chickens for the customers; because he had had a relationship with them for so long...BIG MISTAKE. He is still going through court battles.
See, it was all a sting operation. The whole three years! For that whole time these folks had been in the area befriending the locals, buying eggs and then just waiting to ask them to process their chickens and then BAM! they'd bust them for being neighborly! Which, yes, technically is against the law, but I mean really, I kinda wonder how many murders went unsolved during that three year time-frame???
And as far as health concerns go, well you are never going to win that argument with me. The whole reason we are having outbreaks of bacteria these days is because of commercial farming, not because of organic farming. IN MY OPINION, what has happened with CFO farming is that they have robbed the ground of all the nutrients so they have to spray it all back on, therefore using all sorts of chemicals, pesticides, etc. and that is what then causes the outbreaks. Overcrowding of animals is also a HUGE, I can NOT say it enough, HUGE problem of bacteria in CFO farms!!! A person can follow the CDC (Center for Disease Control) paths for themselves of any outbreak of any food at ANYTIME by going to the CDC website.
Now, as you will notice I did not take the time to link to anything with this first piece as I am a bit link shy right now. I have been looking at the great Cantaloupe breakout to see if I can use it as an example, but again the CDC didn't show it's findings very quickly and I really wanted to get my apology out there! But, from what I can gather, they were NOT organic farmers.
So, the bottom line is I screwed up and I'm sorry. And you will continue to see more of my REBEL side, just a bit more toned down! :)
I am an ASS. I did not read that entire article before I linked to it, and if I had I would have known it was bogus. There are a couple of ways to tell if your pieces are any good or not and the first is to do your research; secondly is to go with your gut and see if the article makes sense and is not too over the top. This one was. As I got closer to the bottom and the Author got more and more angry, I knew I was in trouble.
I have no excuses, but I will explain what happened. It is Spring Break around here, but for only half of my children; we have a case of unexpected Chicken Pox (and yes we were vaccinated) and things are nutty; I saw that article come across my email and it REALLY scared me, more on that in a minute. I started reading it, I swear I did....and messing with the "link to" buttons, and lo and behold there was one for Blogger. So I thought, what the hell???? Something distracted me, and that was that.
So, let's tackle this thing shall we? First and foremost, my apologies if I offended anyone (which I did). Period. Secondly, I truly am sorry for linking to bullshit; no other way to say it. I really try to pride myself on being an honest and up front writer with you all and that just really put a chip in my "armor" so to speak so let's just forget it happened, "K"? I could have just pulled that piece, but it still would have been cached, and it would not have been a reminder to myself of my mistake. As you see I did make a correction on that page.
Okay, so I tried to think through why I fell for this and it is because I truly feel that this is not far in the making. Through CREDIBLE research I have been reading all about raids on homes, yes homes of FAMILIES, that are being raided with guns abalazin' all at tax payers expense because of milk, eggs or cheese. This to me seems really quite incredible when our country is in such a time of crisis; like a foreclosure epidemic, a couple of possible overseas situations, starving residents, dirty oceans, my list could go on and on... Food that people are literally begging for does not top my list of things to prosecute people for.
I mean it really has nothing at all to do with what I do here on my own Ranch. Even if I did not sell my own products of this nature I would think this is total "you know what". I talked to a friend of mine, and this comes first hand. He had another friend that had a customer for three years. That customer talked him into harvesting some chickens for them; they begged him to do it, even after he explained the law, etc. Well, he went ahead and processed the chickens for the customers; because he had had a relationship with them for so long...BIG MISTAKE. He is still going through court battles.
See, it was all a sting operation. The whole three years! For that whole time these folks had been in the area befriending the locals, buying eggs and then just waiting to ask them to process their chickens and then BAM! they'd bust them for being neighborly! Which, yes, technically is against the law, but I mean really, I kinda wonder how many murders went unsolved during that three year time-frame???
And as far as health concerns go, well you are never going to win that argument with me. The whole reason we are having outbreaks of bacteria these days is because of commercial farming, not because of organic farming. IN MY OPINION, what has happened with CFO farming is that they have robbed the ground of all the nutrients so they have to spray it all back on, therefore using all sorts of chemicals, pesticides, etc. and that is what then causes the outbreaks. Overcrowding of animals is also a HUGE, I can NOT say it enough, HUGE problem of bacteria in CFO farms!!! A person can follow the CDC (Center for Disease Control) paths for themselves of any outbreak of any food at ANYTIME by going to the CDC website.
Now, as you will notice I did not take the time to link to anything with this first piece as I am a bit link shy right now. I have been looking at the great Cantaloupe breakout to see if I can use it as an example, but again the CDC didn't show it's findings very quickly and I really wanted to get my apology out there! But, from what I can gather, they were NOT organic farmers.
So, the bottom line is I screwed up and I'm sorry. And you will continue to see more of my REBEL side, just a bit more toned down! :)
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Obama seizes control over all food, farms, livestock, farm equipment, fertilizer and food production across America
UPDATED MARCH 22, 2012 SORRY REBELS THIS LINK IS BS!!!!
Dear Rebels,
Please excuse this break in our normal programming for this very important message:
Obama seizes control over all food, farms, livestock, farm equipment, fertilizer and food production across America
Thank you!
UPDATED MARCH 22, 2012 SORRY REBELS THIS LINK IS BOGUS!
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Checking In!!!
Dear Rebels,
Hello, from your long lost Author, Judy Jeute, :)!! I am so sorry this going to be a quick little post to let you all know that we, The Jeute/Prentiss clan are "Keepin On, Keepin On" so to speak. Actually, we are doing quite well. My poults are growing like weeds; and as you can see by the photo, they have some company.
I have learned that what is an instinct behavior in chicks, oh you know silly little things like eating and drinking properly, are learned behaviors in poults. So one day when I was at my local Big R store (man do I love that place) to get the babies some vitamins to help perk them up, I heard some peeping and thought the sound had followed me from home in my head or something and lo and behold they had their own brooder full of chicks so I took a couple home to teach my turk babies how to eat and drink and within five minutes of me putting those chicks in there my poults were all standing around the waterer!!! It was amazing.
So, although my hatch rate has totally sucked, and I lost my favorite poult; we have figured out exactly what we are doing wrong so far. And that is all a person can do, right? Learn from their mistakes and go forward from there. And that is exactly what I intend to do. So we have more eggs going in the incubator today since we know what went wrong; poor air flow. That just means more excitement in another month! And even more exciting some of these will be sold for profit, what's that, actual money???? But I believe this is where the saying might apply. Don't count your chickens before their hatched. LOL!!!
Okay, so yesterday I think I might have had one of the craziest days. I started it out with negotiating our new property single-handedly. Thank goodness Tom is working overtime again, and we really need to get this property business taken care of. As soon as the snow melts...we need to be moving our livestock up there. Period. We have fencing to do, barns to build, water to acquire, electricity to figure out, did I mention we will be off grid??? Oh yea, and a minor little thing like shelter for four?!?!?!
Oh wait, got a bit side tracked with my panic attack, JK! No, I talked with our friend who owns our dream property and yesterday I made sure... it is The Double J!!!! I do believe that he, Tom and I will be sitting down this afternoon to finalize everything. Whew.
And then....The High Timber Times arrived. No kidding. Yes, I knew they were coming, but I don't think it all really hit me til the guy with the monstrous cameras got out of his car and told me and Bella to act normal while doing our daily chores. She joked that she wanted to go inside and hop on the couch-ha! Anywho, the reason they were here is that they are doing a story on the Mountain Resource Center; and as I mentioned in The American Tragedy, I went to MRC for help with my electric bills.
I really have no idea how this story will turn out and to be honest, we were really nervous about doing it. Could they make us out like the poor kids on the block??? This is a local paper, all of our family and friends are going to see it... they are ALL going to know now that we are in FORECLOSURE and that we have had all of these issues. But you know what else they are going to know? They are going to SEE me and Bella. And I hope they hear the pride that we have in our ranch and our area. But mostly in ourselves and our family.
Yeah, we have been put through the wringer, and yes, we have made some mistakes. But we are being responsible for them now and moving right along. Yesterday when I was being the pied piper and the turkeys were following me across the road as Bella gently herded them and the photographer snapped away I couldn't have been more proud. I don't care about our mistakes or my pain or whatever, it was the smile on that girls face.... I could see the pride in her heart.
I also learned yesterday that Judy means praiseworthy. And for some reason that really came at a nice time; when I'm negotiating deals and being a public figure and a proud mom. So maybe this post was not as short as I intended, as I am behind in my schoolwork, but I needed to let my dear Rebels know....We are here, we are good, and we are doing what needs to be done.
JJ~
PS "Our" edition of The High Timber Times should come out Wednesday March 14, 2012 barring a local news emergency.
Hello, from your long lost Author, Judy Jeute, :)!! I am so sorry this going to be a quick little post to let you all know that we, The Jeute/Prentiss clan are "Keepin On, Keepin On" so to speak. Actually, we are doing quite well. My poults are growing like weeds; and as you can see by the photo, they have some company.
(Aren't they adorable? The brown one looking at the camera is a poult and the black and yellow ones are chicks!! Too sweet for words, really.)
So, although my hatch rate has totally sucked, and I lost my favorite poult; we have figured out exactly what we are doing wrong so far. And that is all a person can do, right? Learn from their mistakes and go forward from there. And that is exactly what I intend to do. So we have more eggs going in the incubator today since we know what went wrong; poor air flow. That just means more excitement in another month! And even more exciting some of these will be sold for profit, what's that, actual money???? But I believe this is where the saying might apply. Don't count your chickens before their hatched. LOL!!!
Okay, so yesterday I think I might have had one of the craziest days. I started it out with negotiating our new property single-handedly. Thank goodness Tom is working overtime again, and we really need to get this property business taken care of. As soon as the snow melts...we need to be moving our livestock up there. Period. We have fencing to do, barns to build, water to acquire, electricity to figure out, did I mention we will be off grid??? Oh yea, and a minor little thing like shelter for four?!?!?!
Oh wait, got a bit side tracked with my panic attack, JK! No, I talked with our friend who owns our dream property and yesterday I made sure... it is The Double J!!!! I do believe that he, Tom and I will be sitting down this afternoon to finalize everything. Whew.
And then....The High Timber Times arrived. No kidding. Yes, I knew they were coming, but I don't think it all really hit me til the guy with the monstrous cameras got out of his car and told me and Bella to act normal while doing our daily chores. She joked that she wanted to go inside and hop on the couch-ha! Anywho, the reason they were here is that they are doing a story on the Mountain Resource Center; and as I mentioned in The American Tragedy, I went to MRC for help with my electric bills.
I really have no idea how this story will turn out and to be honest, we were really nervous about doing it. Could they make us out like the poor kids on the block??? This is a local paper, all of our family and friends are going to see it... they are ALL going to know now that we are in FORECLOSURE and that we have had all of these issues. But you know what else they are going to know? They are going to SEE me and Bella. And I hope they hear the pride that we have in our ranch and our area. But mostly in ourselves and our family.
Yeah, we have been put through the wringer, and yes, we have made some mistakes. But we are being responsible for them now and moving right along. Yesterday when I was being the pied piper and the turkeys were following me across the road as Bella gently herded them and the photographer snapped away I couldn't have been more proud. I don't care about our mistakes or my pain or whatever, it was the smile on that girls face.... I could see the pride in her heart.
I also learned yesterday that Judy means praiseworthy. And for some reason that really came at a nice time; when I'm negotiating deals and being a public figure and a proud mom. So maybe this post was not as short as I intended, as I am behind in my schoolwork, but I needed to let my dear Rebels know....We are here, we are good, and we are doing what needs to be done.
JJ~
PS "Our" edition of The High Timber Times should come out Wednesday March 14, 2012 barring a local news emergency.
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