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Anyone loading up the incubator?
I just set about 26 of my own flocks eggs on Friday, it's kind of exciting. Last year I had a mediocre early spring hatch w/my own eggs 60% and later in the spring two horrible hatches w/shipped eggs. The problem seems to be either too high or too low humidity. I bought a hydrometer last year and still had trouble w/sticky chicks. I had lots of fully developed unhatched mushy chicks. Now I am keeping the humidiity low and will only bump it up during the last three weeks.
My incubators are the little giant, forced air w/turner, any ideas?
I've tried to do a lot of trouble shooting w/incubator placement, humidity etc. I'm not exactly sure why my results were so low last year since the year before my rate was 80%+ with shipped eggs from several different sources.
In any case it's always an experiment, I tried to collect mostly orpington eggs since that is what my roo is but I did throw in some EE'ers in there as well.
Anyone else doing any hatching?
No...but my wife is an absolute chicken nut! She loves to buy the chicks mail order. We have had some free range chickens hatch out some chicks in the past...but have never done it in an incubator.
Our county fair chicken superintendent always hatches out eggs during the fair every year. He has a home made incubator made of plywood with a plexiglass top. The heat source is about 3 - 4 lightbulbs. The incubator is approximately 3' x 3' square and 4" tall. He has probably a 1/2" of saw dust in the bottom an the light bulbs have little shields around them so the chicks can't get burnt when they hatch.
He will put probably 3-dozen eggs in there and by the end of the fair week...most will have hatched. It is neat going down there everyday and watching the little chicks peck their way out.
I said that to say this...he doesn't appear to do anything special to get these to hatch. How much do you really need to turn the eggs? What is the optimum humidity etc, etc? Does a hen turn her eggs while she is brooding them?
Incubating eggs is something I would (well DW) love to do herself.
God Bless,
I have two incubators one with duck goose and turkey eggs and the other, a new top hatch, does not have anything as I cannot get the temp up max seems to be 90 deg. I was planning on using the top hatch this year because of the turner, so I am pretty bummed. I think I am going to try a towel wrapped around it. Any suggestions? FYI they are both stationed in the center of the house where the temp is pretty constant, no direct sun and the other incubator is oen of the old still air styrofoam jobs.
Last year, I just used the top hatch and had a really bad hatch, so I am going to the old standby until I can figure out all the problems. I have hygrometers for both, which I did not have last year, hopefully it helps.
Oh, my yes, the hens turn the eggs regularly in the nest. Keeps the growing chick from sticking to one side of the shell, I guess.
I've never used an incubator, but I understand that you're supposed to turn the eggs at least twice a day if you don't have an automatic turner.
Yes, the hens roll their eggs several times a day. You need to follow your incubators' recommendations as to temp and humidity, and keep the 'bator in an area free of drafts. One person here put his in a hall closet and it worked great!
We'll be setting a variety of eggs under broody hens and in the incubator next week. :)
I turn my incubator eggs three times a day by hand...I have an automatic turner, but the one time I used it I got a miserable hatch rate. So it's back to doing it by hand!
Velvet ~:>
We are on the second hatching this year. The first hatch wasn't very good. We set a dozen and a half eggs bought as "fertile" but from a food store. We also set a half dozen mixed breed eggs from our neighbor's flock. Our incubator only fits two dozen chicken eggs. Five chicks hatched, all from our neighbor's eggs. Guess when health food stores sell "fertile" eggs they have a different interpretation of "fertile" than I do. I had set some eggs which had been refrigerated last year and some of those had hatched - not a high percentage, about 40% so I wasn't expecting much from the health food store "fertile" eggs, but I was hoping for a few. I have a mixed flock but no rooster so I was hoping to hatch out a brown egg laying rooster and a few hens to go with him. May have to order some, it's getting pretty hard to come by plain old Rhode Island Red chickens that aren't mixed with something else.
Now we have a dozen duck eggs and a dozen mixed breed chicken eggs setting in the incubator. About another two weeks to go. They are in a Brinsea Octogon incubator with an automatic turner which rocks the whole incubator about forty five degrees one way and another. Other than checking for water every other day or so, there isn't much to do with this incubator. There are some sponges to increase humidity because of the duck eggs, so we will see if it is enough in a couple of weeks.
The first five chicks hatched out in the last batch sold within two days of hatching for $5 each!!! Guess the price of eggs being what they are these days folks are trying to grow their own now. Regular white eggs in the local grocery stores are $3.99 a dozen. The last big egg farm is in the process of closing now since they can't afford the feed so now almost all the eggs in our state have to be shipped in.
Well it's good to see so many others are hatching or gearing up to hatch this spring.
I am also wondering about my automatic egg turner Velvet! I just took out my second bator and transfered the turner into it along w/a few newly laid mutt eggs. I am now hand turning the original batch (mostly orp. eggs), so this will definitely be an experiment w/the turner.
*When I get to the last three days of hatching I always drape a towel over the bator when I need to add water to help hold in the moisture and heat.
Wouldn't it be interesting if it was the auto turner that was ruining my hatches?
I also noticed that Little Giant isn't carrying the same turner model anymore, they have a new and improved $40 model.
I will keep you all posted on the progress and would love to hear about yours as well.
Just finished testing our homemade incubator and it seems to be be holding around 98 to 102 temps, depending on which therm I look at. (grr). Maybe there is a good reliable one? any suggestions?
Anyway, I put in 24 total silkie, aracana, and cmarans and 1 gmarans. I have so many questions, but am trying to educate myself from reading posts, etc. Just an initial question I have: I am going lowtech for now, and will be hand turning. What I've done is set the eggs in 2 cartons, at an angle off of a 2x4. Is this enough turning action? or should they be placed on their side and rolled around?
Thanks for any input. Total newbie on incubators...
We had our first batch hatched on January 19 2008
We had to keep them in the house, because outside tempertures dropped to -51 Celsius.
( % hatched was low )
Bought 50 chicks from commercial hatchery, and hatched a second batch earlier this week, so for now I think we will have plenty .
But it is a sure sigh of spring .
I have a couple dozen Dominque eggs ready to go in this weekend. I'm looking forward to selling some at the flea market along side my ducklings.
Had attempted to hatch 48 duck eggs, not a one hatched. Had 2 hen ducks hatch out 8 ducklings, we are down to 4. It seems like we are feeding hawks again. There is another nest that should hatch soon. I love baby ducks.
Happy chick raising!
We're new to this too! I'm hand turning, too, since our auto-turner was junk! I've just split an 18 hole carton in two and turn them 3 times a day in it. The auto thing was only tilting them when it wasn't falling apart. I don't know what's best. I hope the foam carton is okay. I mist them each time too (my mom said this is what Grandma always did), but it does have water in the bottom. I hope this all works!
Well, I'm down to 15 eggs now, I've candled and had to clean out the non developing eggs. The green/blue eggs I can't see a thing, it looks like a brick.
Next week this time I hope to have some action on these eggs but we'll see.
Glad to hear so many others are hatching :)
Well, I've got 4 fuzzy chicks so far! three are blue and one is black. Three I think are from my black orp. pullet and one gray is a white EEr cross. I don't see any other action on the remaining eggs. I did have another chick hatch but sadly it still has the yolk sack attached and doesn't look good :(
I set 5 turkey eggs 2 days ago. I picked them up at a poultry auction and don't even know what kind of turkeys they are. But I had the itch to incubate something.
The price of hatching eggs is way up right now. I'm going to pick up some Maran eggs once everyone else gets their incubators full and the turkeys have hatched.
I use a reptile heat and humidity controller. The maker is Alife 1000 watts. It seems to be working great. And it controls the temp and measures the humidity. My husband paid $19 for it for his snakes and told me to try it with the incubater instead of playing around with the coil. I can plug up to three incubators into it at the same time. As long as I want the same heat in each one.
Good Luck with your hatches everyone!
Good news! the chick w/yolk attached is doing well! I cannot believe it! My dh is the one who can't keep his fingers off the slow poke hatching eggs. He helped this fella out of the egg. We let it be w/the attached yolk all day yesterday, it looked like it was dying. Then last night dh took the chick out of the incubator and cleaned it up removing the sack etc. Almost immediately it started moving around and gradually started gaining strength. We gave it a little sugar water which it took happily. Now it's cheeping up a storm! I honestly didn't think it had a chance.
Just now another popped out so it has a little friend. My total hatch is 7, not the greatest % overall but the fertility was not great, and I couldn't candle the green ones to toss like the others. There are still 5 eggs left that haven't pipped and I have 4 more in a separate incubator due on Wednesday.
Since my pottery studio has taken over the basement! I had to set the brooder up in my living room lol! the nice part is we get to hang out w/the chicks and spend more time with them. They are easy to access etc. I only plan on keeping them inside for about a week, then they will get moved out to the coop w/a couple of heat lamps in one of my condo units.
Chicks just make me happy :)
Well, 45 eggs are in the incubator!
Assorted banty, Frizzle & silkie eggs, assorted Americaunas, Buff Orp, Kraienkoppe, New Hampshire, Buff Laced Polish, WCB Polish & Cochin. Of course, they'll be interesting little mutants since we only have two roosters, Phoenix the Barred Rock/Americaunas mix and Scott, the Belgian d'uccle MilleFleur/Frizzle mix. :) I'm also giving Mother Nature a shot by having 5 eggs under two banty hens...I couldn't deny them their try for babies! The broody mamas' babies are due to hatch today (nothing yet), the incubator eggs on the 26th.
Two of the eggs in the 'bator are from Chicken Sister, my VERY elderly little buff cochin hen, who is at LEAST 9 years old and had stopped laying two years ago. I guess when Spring sprung, she got a little excited...I even had to take her to the vet a week ago because she was eggbound, the little stinker. I did everything I knew how and still no egg, so off to the vet we went--15 seconds and $88.00 later he had the egg out. You can bet that one and another she laid a day later are in the incubator! Here she is just chillin' on the back porch:
Normally she won't let anyone near her, she believes she is Queen Of The Wild Chickens. So once she was in the house I got some pics of her, including her little old lady wrinkled face. :)
It wasn't until I saw this picture that I realized that she is developing cataracts in her eyes, poor baby.
Velvet ~:>
Well on top of the ducklings we had hatch out through the week, we got three little turkey poults today. I have way too many incubators set up now. My little old still air Hovabator, the Top Hatch (which has yet to live up to its name) and a GQP that I just picked up on Craigslist for $175 Yeah. Anyway about everything is loaded up and hoping to have some really good hatches. But sadly I think I have to replace my Bourbon Red tom turkey with one I have in reservees. He just does not seem to be getting the job done. He might just be too old, I really don't know. It's too bad to cuz he is so close to the Standard. Oh well, sad sigh.
What beautiful pictures! how are your eggs doing????
I LOVE your chicken stories, how is your sweet "Chicken Sister"? you captured her soul with the close up picture! She is so beautiful, I may have to add her to my chicken series that will continue this summer.
How's everyone else's hatches (mentioned above) going?
I have 8 more eggs in the bator due a week from tomorrow. I'll keep you posted.
What beautiful pictures! how are your eggs doing????
I LOVE your chicken stories, how is your sweet "Chicken Sister"? you captured her soul with the close up picture! She is so beautiful, I may have to add her to my chicken series that will continue this summer.
How's everyone else's hatches (mentioned above) going?
I have 8 more eggs in the bator due a week from tomorrow. I'll keep you posted.
Chicken Sister would be honored to pose for a painting, thank you, Sheila! :)
And the shameless old fossil is STILL laying eggs...she has the cutest little thin-little-old-lady cackle! The little hussy...! :)
The eggs are great, due to hatch on the 26th!
Velvet ~:>
HI! I am a teacher of 5 and 6 year olds. We just put in 12 eggs today! The kids are very excited and I am a nervous wreck!!!! I have never attempted to incubate eggs, but have wonderful memories of doing so in my kindergarten class years and years ago. We put in 4 Araucana, 4 Cuckoo Moran? and 4 Amcona. We have them in a store bought incubator that turns the eggs. No fan. Besides keeping it at a constant 99.5-100 F., and water in the bottom, is there anything else to think about?
check out the link below, I think your temp. should be adjusted since it doesn't have a fan.
If you are using a little giant incubator you want to have one red plug in and the other out until the last three days, then you remove the remaining plug and bump up the humidity. It's best if you have a hydrometer to monitor the humidity, there are dangers to having it too low or too high.
Hope this helps.
Here is a link that might be useful: temperature link
Well, the eggs under the broodies turned out to be duds, but I think I had too many broodies fighting over them, and they either got jostled too much or always had a hen on them and got too hot! I'm trying to rig up an online webcam for the incubator hatch this weekend, and have invited a bunch of my 8 year old daughter's friends to come over and watch baby chicks hatch. :)
newchick, what brand and model incubator are you using, do you know? If you don't have the instructions for it anymore, lots of places online, including the manufacturers, often post the instructions online. You need to follow the instructions as closely as you can for your brand and model.
Mine is a Little Giant still air, and mine says to stop turning the eggs and leave the incubator closed for the final three days of incubation--I always make sure and top off the water wells at the final opening & turning before the last three days, so the eggs won't be in danger of drying out.
Make sure you have a brooder box, a heat source, chick food and water ready to go for the babies. You've got some cool breeds there, Anconas and Marans are beautiful!
Hatching chicks is an amazing experience for kids, I'm glad you are doing it! :)
Velvet ~:>
Today is day 27 and I have a turkey out of the egg. I'm glad I did this test run as it has been years since I have used the incubators. I bought 5 turkey eggs at a poultry auction and those are the ones hatching now. I ordered 2 dozen turkey eggs online and they should be here soon.
I also have an incubator with show girl eggs in it. I have a while on those yet, but am really excited about seeing how the chicks turned out. I have some showgirl roos that I bred to some double bearded silkies. I couldn't wait for the hens to go broody so I set up the second incubator. A couple of days after I set the eggs one of the hens went broody on an empty nest. So I gave her 4 of the eggs from the incubator.
I forgot how much fun it was hatching eggs. It really is exciting to hear the first peeps coming from inside of the eggs.
Newchicks, so nice of you to incubate the eggs for the kids. They will have a lot of fun with that. It's something they will always remember.
I want to take at least 10 of my mallard's 19 eggs so she can start setting on those 9 in hopes that they are fertilized ones. How do should I incubate the other ones without an incubator? The reason I'm wondering is cuz she's not able to turn ALL those eggs and some of them have been there 2 weeks with out her starting the incubation process. Is there any way to do it without an incubator? I was told to keep them at or around 99 degrees and that a heating pad on low with a couple of hand towels underneath them and a mist of water or two would do, and turning them 3 times a day. what do you guys think?
My incubater is a turkey hen.I just got her this year as my other one wouldn't sit last year so the Tom had to. This one isn't as demented and seems to know what to do.I'm sure the Tom is very happy about this. She's sitting on about 14 eggs which should hatch towards the end of May.One hen is a Merriam and the other a Rio Grande so the chicks could be both since they both layed eggs I think.The Tom is a Merriam.
I have no idea how to hatch eggs w/out an incubator? I can't imagine a heating pad would work?
Beegood, I LOVED your picture of your Tom sitting on the eggs last year! I'm glad he's getting some help this year.
Well my second hatch just finished, I have 7 baby chicks, two needed help, one is still in ICU. My first batch of 8 is 4 weeks old, I'm hoping to integrate them w/my small crested coop in a couple of weeks.
We stuck a few eggs under a broody silkie, she has proven to be not very good at her job! I went out to check on the eggs and found them to be stone cold! and one lost in the nest material.
I think that may do it for me this year, 15 chicks should be plenty to deal with, I am interested to see what my ratio of girls/boys will be, I have a track record of hatching about 70% males. If I had to guess now I'd say my older group looks to be 50/50 so far.
Velvet, keep us posted on your eggs, they are due soon :)
I'll just chuck them. Thank you everyone for all the information you have given me about incubating eggs very helpful. Everyone has to learn how to do this some how right? Next year I'll be better prepared and have a lot more time to read on the incubating and caring for these ducklings. Here's a site some of you might be interested in. www.shagbarkbantams.com or www.feathersite.com


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Posted: Thursday, March 1, 2012 5:34 pm | Updated: 6:08 pm, Thu Mar 1, 2012.
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For the second straight day, the Steelers have told one of their aging stars that they will be released. On Wednesday, it was wide receiver Hines Ward. Today, it was defensive end Aaron Smith.
Also, some of the Steelers' offensive linemen are using their Twitter accounts to say that guard Chris Kemoeatu has been cut.
Smiths imminent release was almost expected. Hes been injured in four of the past five years and was seriously pondering retirement. He's missed 33 of the Steelers' last 48 regular-season games.
A fourth-round pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, Smith only played in one Pro Bowl. But the Steelers always considered him one of the best 3-4 defensive ends in the league.
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Malakoff senior running back Demontes Dowell had another solid game for the Tiger's with 141 yards on only 12 carries and two touchdowns.
Marcus Dowell led off the scoring for Malakoff in the first quarter with a nice power run for eight yards and the 7-0 lead. Rene Aguilar botted the PAT good.
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The offensive onslaught continued in the third quarter as Jared Givens hauled in a 24-yard touchdown by Stephen Wolfe. Gonzalez booted his second PAT good with 2:35 remaining.
Malakoff put the final nail in the coffin as Wolfe found a wide open Deric Greenhaw — who scampered his way in from 14 yards for the 40-0 lead with 11:07 remaining in the game.
The Bobcats finally got on the scoreboard with 2:42 remaining in the game as DeQualon Bivins scored from three yards out for the 40-6 lead. Brett Anderson then caught the two-point conversion from Zack Duncan for the 40-8 finale.
Marcus Dowell finished with 58 yards on seven carries for the Tigers, while Wolfe went 5-of-9 for 122 yards and two touchdowns.
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If 3-4 Hydrocodone 10's give you a good/great buzz. Will a quarter of an Opana 30mg give you a buzz?
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Posted November 02 2011 - 07:22 PM
Posted November 02 2011 - 07:58 PM
I would say probably yes thats strong shit. It has to be sniffed it dont do nothing eaten. Id do that quarter and wait and if it dont get you like you want you can always do more but I think it will get you just about right. Be careful and railing is a must!
Posted November 02 2011 - 08:20 PM
Definitely gonna rail it, waiting til the AM though, can't be up late got work tomorrow. Gonna be a good day
Posted November 04 2011 - 10:52 AM
i'd say do a 1/3 to 1/2 but thats just me. oxymorphone is some STRONG shit, one of my favs.
Posted November 05 2011 - 01:31 AM
Yeah. And I wouldn't recommend trying Opana for the first time at work. Haha. If that was what you were planning...
Posted November 05 2011 - 07:54 AM
I used to love,love, love opiates at work!!! always made 4 a greatday but i had way to much experience and opana was my pill of choice always, good shit!
Posted November 05 2011 - 10:26 PM
I absolutely love opanas... snort the whole thing... it'll feel like you've eaten about 6 hydros, only way better!
Posted November 10 2011 - 01:39 AM
Opanas are one of the strongest if insufflated. It's very very strong but if you snort a quarter of a 30mg ER pill, which is 7.5mg, it should be a perfect amount. I would say its similar to about 40 Hydrocodone. The high is different for sure; with Opana being way better than Hyrdocodone imo.


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This scholarship is for college students who have suffered a serious injury and are committed to demonstrating a determination to rebuild their lives by attending college. Applicants must submit a letter regarding their injury experience.
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Ok, so I bought this eyelid primer because I have the oiliest eyelids in the history of woman.
I never used an eyelid primer before and since this got such great reviews, I bought it because it was so cheap and I usually love e.l.f. products.
My list of pros & cons:
Pros -
* It is very sheer AND makes eyelids brighter.
* Seems tacky-feeling...which is a pro to me because this means that eye makeup will stick to it.
* Easy to apply
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* Didn't really seem to help with staying power. However, I usually only wear eyeliner on my eyelids....not eyeshadow. I'm sure eyeshadow might stay in place but a word of warning: my eyeliner did not. I tried using liquid liner, gel liner, and pencil liner. Gel liner still got all up in my crease, liquid liner still peeled off, and the pencil liner didn't fare very well either.
Maybe I need to update my liners (or spend more $$ on them), but as of right now, I rate this product as a three. Seems like it could work -- and it does a little -- it just isn't as fantastic and amazing as I thought it would be.
I will use it more and update if anything changes, but as of right now I would not repurchase.
I have extremely oily skin and it's even worse on my eyelids. This primer did not work at all. My eyeliner and eye shadow still smudged after an hour, and wearing this primer was not different from not wearing any primer. I would not buy it again.
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I was in need of an eye primer because of my super oily eyelids. I've came across this product online. It was said to be a very good one. Therefore, I gave it a try.
It is a bit too watery. My eyeliner and mascara started creasing after a few hours. It is better than not wearing any primer but it couldn't really help the eye makeup to last whole day.
Reading the reviews for this product I was surprised at how many people did not like the texture. It does indeed feel buttery/oily at first, but dries within a few seconds to a slightly tacky semi-matte surface, perfect for applying shadow. I'm assuming people complaining how this was oily didn't wait for it to dry a little before slapping on some shadow. On me, it intensifies my eyeshadow colours and makes them stay put for at least an 8 hour work day. TFSI does wear better imo, but when put into perspective the E.L.F. product is really great for its pricepoint.
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hmmmm. I bought this on a canadian makeup website for $3!! i like my UDPP waaaaay better!! i dont care about spending $25 on it either. this felt like i was putting thin butter on my lids.. doesnt really help my eyeshadow either. I also feel like the tube isnt even full. I will continue to use it untill its finished , or prob give it to my mom! I think i'm done with trying ELF products.
This primer did not work for me :( The consistency is quite like UDPP, but the performance is not like it at all. My shadow lasted maybe ~2 hours longer with this on than if I had not used any primer at all. UDPP literally makes my shadow stay on all day(though with a bit of eyeliner creasing at the end of the day).
nothing compared to my HG Urban Decay PP. Too watery, did not create a good base. Eyeshadow creased within an hour of applying. Totally disappointed by this.
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This works okay as an eye primer, it prevents creasing to an extent and keeps my eyeshadow lasting longer than just my oily lids alone.
More often than not, I use this under my eyes to prevent my concealer from settling into my fine lines under my eyes.
Overall an okay product, I may repurchase.
This is the first primer I've ever bought and used and it was really cheap too! I love it, it keeps my eyeliner on for two hours longer than it usually does and it's pretty handy. However, I don't really like the smell and there doesn't seem to be much product inside the tube.


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The myth of the midwives' witch-hunt
Were midwives singled out, or focused on, in the European witch-hunts? And if so, was it because they possessed "special knowledge" about birth control and abortion? That's the question I set out to answer, after I came upon a provocative passage, one that struck me as implausible, in an otherwise excellent book.
First, let me say that as someone who studied history, in particular religious history, in graduate school, I got pretty well acquainted with the historiography of witchcraft, from John Demos to Lyndal Roper to Carlo Ginzburg and others. Although it was never my focus, I was interested in it (as indeed how could one not be?). And I was also very interested in the histories of women, gender/sexual minorities, and other marginalized people. So I am someone who likely would have come across the claim that midwives were a special focus of the witch hunts, if that claim were taken seriously by historians.
So when I read, in Roxane Gay's new book Bad Feminist, that
[t]he politicians and their ilk forget that women, and to a certain extent men, have always done what they needed to do to protect female bodies from unwanted pregnancy. During ancient times, women used jellies, gums, and plants both for contraception and to abort unwanted pregnancies. These practices continued until the 1300s when Europe needed to repopulate and started to hunt "witches" and midwives who shared their valuable knowledge about these contraceptive methods ...
I was skeptical. (Note: the essay collected in Gay's book was originally published in Rumpus in 2012, here). It sounded like a politically useful claim, useful perhaps for certain feminist narratives, but perhaps one that was made by activists, rather than scholars deeply knowledgeable of the source material (not that one can't be a scholar and activist — one can).
But as I said, this was never my field. So I began to poke around. First, I gave some Twitter shout-outs to the author, Roxane Gay, and heard back from her and a couple other women, who told me enough to figure out, after a little research of my own, that the claim, or something like it, was probably first made by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English in their 1973 pamphlet Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers. (Maybe the claim was made earlier or elsewhere; I am happy to be corrected. This post is quite preliminary.) Ehrenreich is a very fine journalist, but her training is as a biologist. English, like Ehrenreich a former editor of Mother Jones, is also a very fine journalist, but again, not a historian. That is not to say that amateurs can't do excellent work (I'm an amateur in many fields I write in!). It's just to say that they may have made leaps based on sources they understood imperfectly. And so I was unpersuaded by tweets like this one
@markopp1 @rgay ....like it's so widely accepted that it gets referred to all the time in serious work without requiring citations.
— anna march (@annamarch) May 13, 2014
Anyway, I decided to reach out to some scholars who really, really know this stuff. I started with my old Yale teacher Carlos Eire, one of the great scholars of early modern Europe. I wrote:
Carlos, am trying to fact-check a claim that it's "well-known" that persecution of witches and of midwives (if they too were persecuted?) were due to the special knowledge those women had of abortion techniques — because after the Plague, Europe needed to repopulate, so abortionists were targeted for special attack. A writer I know put this out there, and cited some popular writers to this effect. Any sense of how to check it with historians?
And he wrote back:
This is one of those troublesome "facts" that don't really square with the historical evidence. Yes, some midwives ended up being tried for witchcraft, but not really because they were midwives or could perform abortions. Witches were rounded up for performing "maleficium," that is, harmful magic against their neighbors. Some midwives were herbalists too, and the line between herbal medicine and sorcery or magic/maleficium was very blurry. Sometimes midwives were rounded up along with bishops, tailors, milkmaids, and — you name it — a wide assortment of people, simply because in some of the massive witch hunts the accusations went out of control.
How did this "well known" fact become well known? Probably because some women persecuted as witches were midwives/herbalists. Did they perform abortions? We don't really know. No one knows how high or low the incidence of abortions might have been. Infanticide was much more common than abortions (which were extremely risky for the mother), and the most common types of infanticide were faked "accidents" such as smothering and drowning (oops I dropped the baby down the well ... or ... into the fireplace ... or I rolled over it in my sleep, etc...). It was also common for infants to be abandoned by their mothers, as still happens nowadays. This last type of infanticide, known as exposure, was most common. Most abandoned children could not survive, even when taken in by orphanages, where the death rate was astronomically high.
One of my current PhD students is writing her dissertation on infanticide in early modern Spain and she has found plenty of infanticide cases, but virtually no evidence of abortions. She has also found extremely few cases of midwives accused of infanticide or witchcraft.Then — back to witchcraft — there was also the common belief that witches sacrificed and ate infants during their Satanic rituals. (I'm waiting for this tidbit to pop up in connection with the postponed Black Mass at Harvard).
The real fear behind witch persecutions was not abortion or infanticide, but the devil. In our day and age it's hard to conceive of the devil and witchcraft as real, but in the early modern age, it was all very, very real. Just as it's real to this day in Africa and parts of Latin America. To attribute witchcraft persecutions to some top-down crusade against abortions is to misunderstand medieval and early modern culture and the power of belief at that time.
But that's just one scholar. So I asked another, the eminent Robin Briggs of Oxford, who replied:
The short answer to your question is that no serious historian known to me gives the slightest credence to these preposterous claims. It is hard to imagine that anyone could get things more wrong than this! The great majority of accusations came from other people in the local communities, so the idea of a witch-hunt is very unhelpful for most cases, since it implies direction from above. Midwives are actually very uncommon among those charged with witchcraft. In my own sample of about 400 richly documented cases from Lorraine there are only I think three midwives, for two of whom the charges had little to do with their semi-professional role. Just one of them was supposed to have killed lots of babies, but you can hardly generalise from a singe case of that type.
If I remember correctly Ehrenreich took all her evidence from British and North American cases. In 1990 David Harley published a devastating article on 'Historians as Demonologists: the myth of the midwife-witch', in Social History of Medicine volume 3. [Oppenheimer note: see here.] Harley showed that almost all Ehrenreich's identifications were either highly dubious or plain wrong; the true number of midwives accused was derisory, indeed far fewer than necessary to match their numbers in relation to the population.
The chronology is also all wrong for the argument to work. The vast majority of trials in western Europe occurred in the period 1570-1630, in the final phase of the great population increase of the sixteenth century, which had by then led to a sharp decline in living standards. It is likely that many people tried to control fertility by the use of herbal medicines, precisely because too many children were becoming a problem for impoverished families; knowledge of those herbs was widespread, and nothing suggests that midwives took a leading part in advocating their use. It is also unlikely, in parenthesis, that they were notably effective, because people understood so little about appropriate dosage, or indeed the reproductive system itself.
... of the same kind that led to the crazy claim that 9 million women were executed. It is horribly unpleasant to think that perhaps 60,000 individuals were put to death as witches, 15,000 of them being men, but that is hardly in the same ball-park.
[t]here is no question that some midwives were accused of witchcraft, mainly because infants often died during delivery and some parents sought to explain this misfortune by accusing the women who had performed the delivery of using magic to cause their death. Demonologists, who were more concerned with the diabolical as opposed to the magical aspects of witchcraft, claimed that midwives killed the unbaptized infants as sacrifices to the Devil. In 1990 David Harley wrote a revisionist article about the myth of the midwife witch in Social History of Medicine, 3:1-26, showing how highly regarded midwives were in early modern communities and how the historical identification of them as witches has tarnished their reputation. Harley discredits the claim that most accused witches were midwives, but the fact remains that some midwives were in fact accused of killing newborns by means of witchcraft. One of the most famous cases was that of Walpurga Hausmännin in Dillingen, which I refer to in my book The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (3rd ed, 2006). Lyndal Roper, who also minimizers the number of midwife-witches, explains their prominence in the historical literature by the fact that midwifery was one of the few occupations by which accused witches could be identified in the judicial record, whereas most accused witches, including healers, did not have "occupations." Midwives were in fact licensed in many communities. The claim that midwife-witches were trying to limit population growth was first advanced by Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger in "Birth Control: The Political-Economic Rationale behind Jean Bodin's Demonomanie", History of Political Economy 31 (1999): 423–48. This interpretation is implausible for many reasons, including the relatively small number of midwives who were actually tried for witchcraft and the unlikelihood that secular or ecclesiastical judges were concerned about repopulating Europe, a process that was well underway by the time witch-hunting became intense in the late sixteenth century. I don't think Ehrenreich made this claim in her widely circulated pamphlet [Oppenheimer note: Levack is right — Ehrenreich did not]; she was concerned mainly with the conflict between midwives and the medical establishment. But in any case, historians don't give her argument much credence.
There were a lot of things we got wrong back then, at the time we were writing that pamphlet. The sources were so limited then compared to now. I haven't kept up with the intervening 40 years of scholarship. I am not going to defend every point we've made. If some of the points have been superseded, then they've been superseded. For example, we portrayed it as a campaign by a monolithic church, when we now know it was tied up with the Reformation.


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Casey Anthony murder trial focuses on 'trash' versus 'garbage'
Prosecutors and defense counsel in the Casey Anthony murder trial argue over how to describe a plastic bag of refuse found in the trunk of her car. Does it link to the body of Caylee Anthony?
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Prosecutors and defense counsel in the trial of a Florida woman accused of killing her two-year-old daughter are waging a running battle over how best to describe a plastic bag of refuse found in the trunk of the mother's car.
The state attorneys office insists that it be referred to as "trash." Defense lawyers counter that the contents of the white plastic bag were "garbage."
The issue arose anew on Saturday during a special weekend session of the Casey Anthony murder trial in Orlando.
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Prosecutors had called Dr. Neal Haskell, a forensic entomologist, to testify about maggots found on a wad of paper towels in the white plastic bag that had been left in the trunk of Ms. Anthony's car. Dr. Haskell's expertise is helping the authorities identify the time of death based on which kinds of insects are breeding and feeding on the decomposing remains of a victim.
He told the jury that as the chemical composition of a decomposing body changes, the cadre of insects attracted to the corpse changes as well. By knowing when those changes take place, an entomologist can establish a timeline that can help investigators solve a crime.
The state's theory in the case is that Ms. Anthony killed her daughter, Caylee, and then hid her body in the trunk of the car before dumping the body in a wooded area not far from the family home.
Caylee was last seen alive on June 16, 2008. Her remains were discovered six months later on December 11.
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Prosecutors have no direct evidence that Anthony harmed her daughter. Instead, they are working to build a circumstantial case linking the toddler's decomposing body to her mother's car.


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El Paso, TX (KTSM) — El Paso Police continue their investigation of an accident that sent 49-year-old Jose Barrios to UMC with life-threatening head injuries Sunday night.
Police say that Barrios was driving a 2008 Mercury Mountaineer at 8:15 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Dakota Ridge and Cloud Ridge when he got out of the running SUV to check something.
While checking the SUV, it somehow rolled backwards, dragging Barrios. As it rolled, the Mountaineer hit two other parked cars, a 2008 Chevy Cobalt and a 2008 Kia Sorento.
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Los Angeles, Dec 12 Actor Russell Crowe is reportedly dating Billy Joel's ex-wife Katie Lee post his split from Danielle Spencer.
Sources spotted Crowe and Lee cuddling in front of a romantic fireplace in the Drawing Room of the Greenwich Hotel in the early hours of Sunday morning, reports nypost.com.
"They seemed to be in an intense flirtatious conversation," said a source, adding, "They looked really into each other."
Lee was seen at the hotel later in the day.
"Katie was still at the hotel Sunday afternoon. She was seen with Crowe at the same fireplace at about 2 p.m."
While Crowe is in town filming "A Winter's Tale" with Colin Farrell, a source close to the project, said: "Katie has been seen around with Russell".
Lee, 31, who split with Joel after five years of marriage in 2009.
Crowe, 48, and 43-year-old Spencer, who have two sons, Charles, eight, and six-year-old Tennyson, together, split in October after nine years of marriage.


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Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce is concerned that his reputation has been damaged by accusations of bung taking in the recent Panorama programme on BBC1.
Allardyce, and his former agent son Craig, were accused of taking illegal payments but the Bolton boss insists he has done nothing wrong.
"I don't know what damage it has done for me, but I don't think it will go on and on - I think things will be sorted out pretty quickly," he told The Sunday People.
"I've done nothing wrong but things like this can stick, even if nothing is proved.
"It's hard to say what might happen on that score - I just have to concentrate on football and let my legal side look after that.
"I haven't been tempted to walk away, no way. That would have looked as if I was running away, so that has never entered my mind."
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DURHAM, N.C. Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have engineered a way to do this for an entire, versatile class of drugs called aptamers and published their findings in Nature Medicine.
"With any anticoagulant, you are trying to reduce your chances of having clotting because it can lead to a heart attack or stroke during treatment," said Bruce Sullenger, Ph.D., senior author and Vice Chair for Research and Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Surgery. Yet bleeding is a common side effect during and after treatments that require anticoagulation therapy such as surgery or angioplasty.
These new antidotes may give doctors a way to quickly and precisely put the brakes on an anticoagulant if bleeding becomes a problem or neutralize other adverse events or toxicities.
Duke researchers have just completed a series of successful clinical trials in patients taking a blood-thinner aptamer and an antidote engineered to reverse the effects of the aptamer.
"We have shown that this type of antidote can reverse the action of any of the aptamer drugs, and there are many aptamers in development," Sullenger said. Their approach amounts to a universal antidote to the entire aptamer family. "We predict that this advance will significantly expand the number of diseases that can be more safely treated using antidote-controllable therapeutic agents," he said.
The new approach, called RNA-based aptamer technology, "provides the opportunity to make safer drugs," said Sullenger, who also directs the Duke Translational Research Institute. "And now that we can engineer a universal antidote for aptamers, we can in principle for the first time afford to provide additional control over drugs for patients and their physici
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Cauliflower cheese
By Sarah Cook
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 35 minsSkill level
Serves 6Pop this classic side dish in the oven when you take your roast chicken out to rest, so there's no hot shelf juggling
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 250
- protein
- 13g
- carbs
- 16g
- fat
- 15g
- saturates
- 9g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 8g
- salt
- 0.62g
- 1 large cauliflower (leaves cut off), broken into pieces
- 500ml milk
- 4 tbsp flour
- 50g butter
- 100g strong cheddar, grated
- 2-3 tbsp breadcrumbs, if you have them
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- Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, then add the cauliflower and cook for 5 mins – lift out a piece to test, it should be cooked. Drain the cauliflower, then tip into an ovenproof dish.
- Heat oven to 220C/200C/gas 7. Put the saucepan back on the heat and add the milk, flour and butter. Keep whisking fast as the butter melts and the mixture comes to the boil – the flour will disappear and the sauce will begin to thicken. Whisk for 2 mins while the sauce bubbles and becomes nice and thick. Turn off the heat, stir in most of the cheese and pour over the cauliflower. Scatter over the remaining cheese and breadcrumbs.
- When the chicken comes out of the oven (see 'Goes well with' recipe), pop in the Cauliflower cheese and bake for 20 mins until bubbling.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2010
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Embarassed to see this is the first time I have made cauliflower cheese and it was so easy and lovely, much better than shop bought.
I did add a little nutmeg and extra cheese and before putting in the oven I spinkled it with a little paprika.
It went down a treat with everyone. This recipe is a keeper.
Just made this as an introduction to me learning to actually cook instead of prepare ready made food. Thought it was really simple, and turned out lovely! I did add a little more cheese, but was really happy with how it turned out. My 4 year old helped me eat it, my 2 year old...not so keen...lol!
Will definately make again, and use half brocolli and half cauliflower to see if my little one will eat it next time. Would recommend to even the most novice of cooks!
I love cauliflower cheese though I'm always put off making it from scratch due to the roux method which I've still not mastered! This is so simple....why is there a roux method at all!!! Fantastic results and with a little tweaking to your own taste (for me, english mustard and strong cheese) it's easy, peasy, lemon squeazy!
This is the easiest cauliflower cheese ever, and is so much tastier than those packets you get in the supermarket!
I also added a bit more cheese as was using a cheap, mild Cheddar and I wanted it a bit cheesier. Could have eaten the entire pot all to myself, but, sadly had to share with the guests!
This was the easiest ever recipe for cheese sauce! None of that faffing around to make a Roux! I used Flora Buttery instead of butter and added a generous teaspoon of wholegrain mustard. I didn't bother to grate the cheese; I used Tickler, which is very crumbly, and sliced it very thinly using a cheese slicer (how does anyone survive without a Norwegian cheese slicer in their kitchen?) The cheese just fell apart on its own and melted into the sauce almost instantly. No lumps, really tasty, but not too rich. Absolutely perfect!
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One past time I was out I did the 55 Gallon Drum Liner AKA Big Trash Bag stuffed with lots of leaves. That was incredibly comfortable and I liked it more than a sleeping pad.
Leaves are something that we have no shortage of here in all PA woods.
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I'll probably test that one out in the backyard when Autumn starts moving into Winter.
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Now, most of us can agree that poppy has a great burst capacity. There are multiple theories that involve a physical dps build wiith trinity force. What is the viability of an ap build incorporating lich bane? In my mind it seems that it could make her devastating blow quite powerful. My build looked at an early sheen and catalyst, going at the end to roa, lich and adding a nashors(great item imo.) Devastating blow deals(correct me if I am wrong)- (base damage+(0.6*ap))+(160+8% of their total health bonus damage which has a cap of 450) With this build that would mean (115+(0.6*215))+(bonus)+215(Lichbane proc.) =459+bonus. my question is, does this effectively take the entire crit multiplier if it crits? If so, it makes a physical build much more viable and useful. I think I just like ap.
Did they realize that 10% of here health is basically every attack that anyone in the game will ever do to her? It's like have Alistars Ult for the entire game. Yea she is suppose to be a tank, but why is this a problem? Because you can stack attack damage and not stack any tank items making her into a dps/tank.
Do you realize that her passive reduces any damage over 10% of her health by 50%? So A spell that deals say 12% of her health in damage will only do 11% of her health in damage.
Indecent, is that how it works? The way I assumed it, and I suppose IamDuddits did as well, is that a spell that does 12% of your health will instead do 6%. That does help, but that doesn't change that a 1.2k damage Dark Matter from a Veigar now does a few HUNDRED less damage. I'd say this is one of the most powerful passives in the game. I havn't gotten ingame yet though, so havn't had a chance to see it in action. It sure sounds outstandingly powerful in theory, though.
People seem to be confused about the passive. It's much weaker than the words seem to portrait it. If you have 2k hp, which is aprox at level 18. Veigar hits you for 500 with dark matter(350 after mr reduction.) it only halves the damage that is great than the 10% of her health. 350-200(10% of her health)=150/2=75+200=275 from the initial 350. Not that big of a loss, especially against most casters or anyone that isn't one big burst of damage.
Now do the calculation for veigars ult.
I havn't seen a Veigar do that little damage at level 18. The few I see playing tend to hit for over a thousand with Dark Matter. Maybe it is just the ****ty solo queue teams, but consider it with 1,000 damage AFTER MR. Four hundred damage knocked off the number, unless I am mistaken? Ryze also seems to do 700-900 damage. It doesn't look like you really need MR as Poppy.


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Millwood (4-16) gave up just two hits and three walks, and struck out seven. Felix Pie hit a two-run triple in the seventh for the Orioles, who had dropped five of six.
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Jeff Niemann (11-8) was handed the loss despite giving up just two runs on four hits with a walk and three strikeouts over seven innings. Brad Hawpe had a single and a walk for the Rays, who have dropped three of their last four.
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Hi everybody I have been away for awhile... My husband had a stroke and we are trying to get life back in order. He is doing so much better now but for a few months I did not know what was going to be up with him. Between rehab and a few mini stokes...lets just say It was a very scary time.
Anyway, so of course I have been wanting a renewal of vows/anniversary party....since I went to the justice of the peace to get married... Well I was talking to Q about having a renewal of vows earlier, since like I told him I almost lost him and life is way to short to not do what you want to do... this crazy man had a nerve to say we have not been married long enough to have a vow renewal, or an anniversary party...OK didn't you just almost die.... would not that be reason enough to have a vow renewal... So question is would you want to wait many more non promised years or would you just want to do something nice right now.... or at least in my time frame of the next 31 months...Please I need some input on this since I was a little taken aback.... I mean what in peoples eyes makes the best time to have a vow renewal?????? |
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Hello ladies, as you know I am already married, and we have friends who are already married... There lies the problem.... they are already married but are getting seperated!!!!! I mean these folks have been married for 16 years, 20 years, 12 years....WTF is going on!!!!! Some of these couples have been my inspiration for years...and now...I am just so shocked right now!!!!
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Hello all, finally back here on WBC! Missed you all but have been busy with LIFE!!!!
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Yes this is my inspiration... Venting. I hope that the young lady that I am talking about reads this post. She most likely will to see if I will fail at my renew of vows planning. Yes thats how some ladies are because I am surely checking out her post every chance I can in fact when she writes something down it goes to my e-mail. Shallow, hey I have been called worse!!!!!!
I want to start by saying that ladies we are all grown. (remember I am the mother of 3 boys, a 17, 15, and a 10 year old) I can truly say that I have been through some things. Do not put a post down for all to see and someone gives a comment and you dont like what the comment says, you erase the comment and have something rude to say without keeping the comment for all to see. I would have kept the comment up even if I did not agree because it may not have been good advice for what you are going through but it could have helped someone else. The comment was not ugly, I was just letting you know that when you are in a relationship it is not just one person involved. I dont want any women to cater to her husband to the point that she does not please herself. Why would you want to go to school for 4 years extra after the 12 that you already have done, only to not get a JOB but to be a stay at home mommy-just because that is what your HUSBAND wants you to do. You already said that you wanted to land a great job, and make some decent money, before you have children, but then change it because your HUSBAND does not want you to work. I have been through that where my man friend wanted me to not work. So you have no job, no money. no say on where and what you are doing with money, and oh and no mind for your ownself. Then when you break up you have to start from the bottom of the barrel/ getting a diploma or GED, working at Micky D's, or cleaning some disgusting hotel room behind some nasty people. (No I am not knocking anyones job but I sure would not be trying to be a nurse if I did not have too, but that is all I know.) Do not ever set your self up for failure. And always remember that everyone who gives advice may have been through some things. Even though I dont agree on everything, I dont think that I know everything, and cant listen to all advice. |
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Merry Christmas ladies, I hope this day turns out to be good for you. Sometimes we all go through things around this time that depresses us such as loss of a loved one, loss of a job, a break-up of boy/girl friends,(even though you still end up getting back together), and the ultimate downer---- no money to do all that you want to do.
But always remember that there is always someone out there who has it worse than you!!!! Sometimes I have to tell myself that when times get hard. Then I look around at other people who have lossed alot and may never get it back what that worked so hard to obtain. Then I realize that ALL the things that I take for granted everyday can easily be lost forever. So ladies I have some advice for you that I want you to think about and go into full swing with it, it involves money. This can be for this year and many years beyond. I want to tell you ladies that even though you are planning the wedding of your dreams always try to save a few dollars every month. I am going back to the old school way of things by opening and using a christmas fund. I personally can not have money that is at my disposal anytime I want, (I spend money like crazy), but once I open my x-mas fund and actually put some money in it, I know that I cant take that money out until the beginning of November. I did that a few years ago and had enough money for great gifts (x-box 360 elite (which by the way cost me a few hundred dollars), a computer with printer, clothing, video games and toys.) Plus we were able to enjoy a weekend away at a luxuarious hotel suite with the children in their own room. Oh yeah and still paid a few bills and had money left over in the bank. Lets just say my x-mas check was the bomb.(do people still use that word?) This year when I only got my check back for around $150 I thought I was going to cry, I was very disappointed in myself. My husband could not beleive that we did not have alot of money.... But it was no one else's fault but ours. We should have and could have did so much better than that. But what is done is done and over with for this year. I am claiming that next year will be different. I am claiming a great year and all the years beyond. Try it this year ladies, most banks have a christmas fund account. Most let you start out with $10. Most let you start before the New Year is up, which is right around the corner. I guarentee that when you receive your check the end of October early November that you will be grinning from ear to ear. Then say that darn June actually told us something good!!!!! Then you can hit me a message because I will be here until at least 2012. LoL Again MERRY CHRISTMAS. Happy planning!!!! |
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Are there any other brides doing a vowal renewal. Most of the time I feel so lost. I love to read everyones wedding plans but.....I need more information on renewing vowals. Even if you know of another website I need to go on. I will still come back and keep reading your blogs because i think i am addicted to weddings by color.
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I am from nj and i live here in nc for 11 years. My husband is a country boy from nc. We got married in feb 2008 and I am planning my renewal of vows ceremony. Well I am having a very difficult time figuring out where i want my ceremony. We never had a honeymoon being that we were in classes. I was wondering should I have a renewal of vows in jamacia or hawaii and have a well needed honeymoon at the same location, or just have my black tie affair here in nc or go to nj, and a seperate vacation/honeymoon.
I think it will be cheaper in the long run to have the renewal of vows and the honeymoon at the same location. I still dont want to do this until 2012 since we will be both graduating by then. Plus my son will be off in college by then. So many decisions and the time is going to go by quickly. |
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I am annoyed, aggervated and disgusted all in one. First I found out that I am still not going to be getting my financial aid for school. I already had a loan that I finally paid off now the school is saying I wont get my loan until I am off of probation. Who can afford anything else now. Second my best friend or at least I thought was my best friend said that she is sick and tired of hearing about my wedding planning and she said I was taking too much of her time away from her just talking about weddings. What a crappy attitude, first off when I told her Q and I would be doing a renewal of vows she was not all that happy. Ok is it a jelous thing that I should be worried about, She has been married, and is legally seperated. Should I be worried that she does not want to be involved?
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Yes this is the true meaning of getting ready early.(hey I am usually late for everything according to my husband). I am already married so i am planning my renewal of vows. My husband and I have been together for 11 years. He asked me to marry him one year and a half after we first met. I said yes of course. THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME! We grew apart (yes it does happen) Beleive me when I tell you he was not ready to be married. The second time was a few years later I of course said yes but lets just say I made sure we had a long engagement. When it came down to wedding planning I was the only one making plans, my then fiance was telling me to do whatever I wanted to do... That is annoying after awhile. SOME INPUT PLEASE. Then he got sick so the two person income that we had was not there anymore. Then everyones thoughts of how OUR wedding was supposed to be started trickling in, It was so overwhelming we finally went to the justice of the peace, and got married the cheap and easy way. No that was not what I wanted but the pressure is like when you were in school and were being told things to do. Peer pressure is a ----------
Well my husband agreed to have the renewal of vows and honeymoon the way we planned to do in the first place. So here I am.....LOL long story huh. As you see I have a long way to go but it is for a few reasons: 1.We are attending college, hopefully to get better careers. But sometimes it seems that we are just there taking up space. 2. I have 3 boys 17, 14, and 9 years old so we can not just plan an extravagant wedding without thinking of them and the activities that they attend. 3. I want a great renewal of vows that has everything I have dreamt of since the first time I got engaged. I dont beleive that just because you are having something nice that it should be the most expensive thing in the world. Remember you still have to live life after the wedding. So that brings me up to........ 4. I am challenging myself to have a black tie affair with a little twist of fun where everyone feels at home, plus have an honeymoon for under $15,000 I know it can be done. Wish me luck! I might be a little crazy after this is over but it will get done. Happy Planning! |