"Tony" Thought Journal 3.0

Tony Page said:
I am going to purchase from that company again just to see what happens with the next dozen.
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I always called uncandled eggs a Dirty Dozen. I candled looking for blood spots. I consider double yolks as more protein and a lucky find. I use to get a couple of double yolks a day out of 50 hens. I had a customer that paid more for a double yolk dozen. That was a big deal being a kid trying to fill a piggy bank.
 
Talking about eggs brings back a faded memory.When I was 4 my father & what the help of my uncle opened up an egg store. My memory is vague so I will only be able to tell you what I know and was told. My father told me he had made a connection at Bronx terminal where they wholesaled foods including eggs. This connection was very knowledgeable about eggs taught him the difference between fresh and storage eggs, how to candle, and how to set up a store and business. He became my father's mentor on all thing eggs and business.

My father and uncle found a store they liked to open the business. They build things to hold eggs and I kind of remember seeing these bins on both sides of the front counter and in the window area. They held white eggs all different sizes, brown eggs all different sizes, and cracked eggs. They had the doorway to a back room without a door so they put a curtain across it and a sign of it candling room or something to that effect.
In the beginning the business was good not great but was holding its own. So my father got the idea of getting a step van and doing deliveries. He built up a smaller route which kept adding customers weekly. This added to their income. One of them either my uncle or my father would watch the store while the other one did the route.
My father felt as long as I'm going to drop eggs off at customers homes I might as well offer other product. He added butter and cooking oils to the delivery service.

My uncle felt this was not a business for him and he kind of just quit abruptly. My father couldn't handle both ends of the business so he sold it.
 
Faye Fox said:
I always called uncandled eggs a Dirty Dozen. I candled looking for blood spots. I consider double yolks as more protein and a lucky find. I use to get a couple of double yolks a day out of 50 hens. I had a customer that paid more for a double yolk dozen. That was a big deal being a kid trying to fill a piggy bank.
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We gather eggs daily, so we don't candle even when we have a rooster unless we are hatching...which doesn't happen anymore. People we sell to just have to take their chances and they are aware of that.
 
Don Alaska said:
We gather eggs daily, so we don't candle even when we have a rooster unless we are hatching...which doesn't happen anymore. People we sell to just have to take their chances and they are aware of that.
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As an adult, I never candled eggs for myself. A blood spot never bothered me. I always had a rooster with the hens. The last 10 years I had chickens, they were Araucana and hatched and raised their chicks.
 
The day after Easter, April 6, my wife, daughter, and grandkids are driving down to South Carolina. They will be meeting with relatives, and real estate agents to get a feel for a future move.

I will remain home, I would just slow them down, plus someone has to take care of the dogs and the property.

I prefer not to drive while there away. I will be stocking up on microwave meals and drinks before they leave. My cooking is limited to how I'm feeling at the time. Of course I can always order takeout and have it delivered.

With them away my biggest concern is falling. Many times I needed help after a fall, sometimes I need a chair to support me as I getup.

It's going to put a damper on my outside gardening. I won't go outside along, or with nobody home.

Looks like it will be a TV watching week. Glad baseball is back.

I don't do "joy" driving anymore, only the driving that is necessary like to the doctor, drugstore, for haircut, grocery store etc.

Hopefully the week will go fast.

the next week I will be busy prepping for the week when my family will be gone, I'll also be helping my wife getting what she's going to need for her trip, and after that when they're gone I will be busy taking care of business around the house, this will limit my time on SOC.
 
Tony Page said:
The day after Easter, April 6, my wife, daughter, and grandkids are driving down to South Carolina. They will be meeting with relatives, and real estate agents to get a feel for a future move.

I will remain home, I would just slow them down, plus someone has to take care of the dogs and the property.

I prefer not to drive while there away. I will be stocking up on microwave meals and drinks before they leave. My cooking is limited to how I'm feeling at the time. Of course I can always order takeout and have it delivered.

With them away my biggest concern is falling. Many times I needed help after a fall, sometimes I need a chair to support me as I getup.

It's going to put a damper on my outside gardening. I won't go outside along, or with nobody home.

Looks like it will be a TV watching week. Glad baseball is back.

I don't do "joy" driving anymore, only the driving that is necessary like to the doctor, drugstore, for haircut, grocery store etc.

Hopefully the week will go fast.

the next week I will be busy prepping for the week when my family will be gone, I'll also be helping my wife getting what she's going to need for her trip, and after that when they're gone I will be busy taking care of business around the house, this will limit my time on SOC.
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My brother and his wife are considering moving to South Carolina too. He likes it there, plus one of his daughters lives in NC. They have considered NC too.

Did you say you had a brother close by, Tony? Maybe your brother can come visit and hang out with you for a week. You both can watch baseball games, reminisce, and eat junk food. :)
 
Don Alaska said:
I hope it works out for you @Tony Page. Strat with just a few minutes and work up to about 10 minutes at a time, two or more times a day. That is how my wife uses hers anyway, and it seems to help her a lot.
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That's the plan to starts small and build up for 10 minutes. I'll start off with once a day and then gradually fill that up also to no more than twice a day.
 
Over my life I was asked many a Time to join a club or organization, it just wasn't my thing, I refused. I am not the type of person that wanted to attend functions, or scheduled meetings, or follow rules.

The only organization I ever joined were those associated with baseball, Little League, Babe Ruth League Etc. I put up with the pageantry of parades, and dinners to play ball.

When I joined SOC, I thought it would be short-lived because of my negative mental acceptance of a structured Club. I always enjoyed being free-wheeling doing and saying what I want.

Now I see my thread being hashed out on the "on and off topic thread", here I am very disturbed with this. I agree there is a need for some rules. I'm not here to debate where this thread should be applied. I can only tell you that if my tongue has to be hogtied I lose my comfort zone. The thing I love about SOC is the 20 or so friends (I hope I can call them friends) that I made, sight unseen just by conversation.

I have enjoyed chatting with all of you, however because there is controversy over simple chatting, I have lost heart and no longer wish to be a member of SOC, therefore this will be my last post.

Be well,
Tony
 
I think you might have misunderstood the point about threads having a topic, @Tony Page , and it definitely does not limit our journals in any way.
It is like a thread for recipes should not be mixed up with the talk about tractors, cats, or other off topic posts.

When you want to look up a recipe that someone has posted here, you know to search for the recipe section and go through that thread to find the recipe you were looking for.
If you want to remember something about repairing a tractor, that should be found somewhere in the tractor thread, and so on.

All threads will have some off-topic posts in them , because that is just how we have conversations; but if we have specific threads for a general topic , it makes it much simpler to revisit the topic again.

The diary threads are our personal journals, and they don’t have any specific topic, they are whatever we want to write about, and whatever others want to say in response. The only reason it even came up in the thread is because Don Alaska made a joke about us all listing movie horses, it has nothing to do with thread topics. It was a joke.

The forum is the same as it has always been, so you are not being constrained in any way, at any time. We love having you here, and we all enjoy reading and responding to your journal posts.
Please don’t get upset and leave about nothing.
 
Tony Page said:
Over my life I was asked many a Time to join a club or organization, it just wasn't my thing, I refused. I am not the type of person that wanted to attend functions, or scheduled meetings, or follow rules.

The only organization I ever joined were those associated with baseball, Little League, Babe Ruth League Etc. I put up with the pageantry of parades, and dinners to play ball.

When I joined SOC, I thought it would be short-lived because of my negative mental acceptance of a structured Club. I always enjoyed being free-wheeling doing and saying what I want.

Now I see my thread being hashed out on the "on and off topic thread", here I am very disturbed with this. I agree there is a need for some rules. I'm not here to debate where this thread should be applied. I can only tell you that if my tongue has to be hogtied I lose my comfort zone. The thing I love about SOC is the 20 or so friends (I hope I can call them friends) that I made, sight unseen just by conversation.

I have enjoyed chatting with all of you, however because there is controversy over simple chatting, I have lost heart and no longer wish to be a member of SOC, therefore this will be my last post.

Be well,
Tony
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It is your journal Tony. Write what you want. I enjoy reading it all. I am like you and don't belong to any clubs, churches, or political party that require members to follow a creed. SOC isn't a club in my opinion. Post about whatever you want. I also enjoy photos. Forget about off topic, because you are the one that established the topic. Tony's Thought Journal covers it all!
 
@Tony Page -- I'm sorry you are offended over the "off topic" discussion, but I believe it's just a simple misunderstanding. I think your Diary was mentioned in the off-topic discussion in a teasing manner. Diaries are just journals with whatever the Diary owner wants to share about their life.

You certainly don't have a "topic" when sharing stories about your own life. Some people don't want a lot of participation on their Diary; they want it to be more of a journal of sorts. Then those of us like you and me don't care who participates; it makes the discussion more fun.

We are all just conversing with each other and some conversations take temporary detours. I don't think anyone minds.

Anyway, please reconsider and come back to SOC. You are a big part of this place and we all enjoy sharing your life. I apologize if I played any part in the misunderstanding.
 
Ken Anderson said:
The topic in a journal or diary-type thread is whatever the member who created it wants it to be. This is Tony's thread; if he didn't want the horse stuff in his thread, he could ask me to move them, otherwise, I don't police anyone's journal threads. Except in jest, no one was saying otherwise.
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Tony never mentioned the horse posts at all and I don't believe he minded since he was participating. Someone else brought up the horses posts in your "On Topic Off Topic" thread which upset Tony.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Tony never mentioned the horse posts at all and I don't believe he minded since he was participating. Someone else brought up the horses posts in your "On Topic Off Topic" thread which upset Tony.
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Nobody else minded, either. If Tony had minded, he could have asked me to remove the horse posts. He didn't, nor did anyone else. I think falls into do not be too easily offended. No one here meant anything by it.
 
Ken Anderson said:
Nobody else minded, either. If Tony had minded, he could have asked me to remove the horse posts. He didn't, nor did anyone else. I think falls into do not be too easily offended. No one here meant anything by it.
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I think being too easily offended gets more common as we age. I take it as a suggestion, rather than a hard and fast rule. I think old folks also become more impatient, which leads to offending.
 
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