Funny Things we do when TTC &TWW... Come join and share with us :)

[brighteyez73]

And more pics....

 

[brighteyez73]

Last one.

 

[Soanxious]

I am totally loving all the photos hun!!!! you looked so gorgeous and such a lovely couple... xxx

 

[brighteyez73]

Thank you very much Soanxious!

 

[Bushmumma]

Bright!! A bitta on the balcony is great!!! Now given that your blaming it on champagne, I'd say I know better so Flasher sounds like a fantastic name for a little boy and of a girl should be Leighkar (leaker) seen you did kinda pee a wee bit!!

Those pictures are bloody wonderful, yous are a pretty sexy looking pair . I must tell you I have a fave pic ...... Drum roll please................. The black and white one of yous where your hat is flipped up!! Oooooooo it's beautiful! so glad ya had a great time and were able to relax with each other... Missed ya loads though!!

Now not that I know a lot about temping BUT I did predict a dip for So!
Yours is gunna come back up and stay up!! well at least I effing hope so or my predictions are crappy nice to have you back darlin!!!!

Oooooooo Kerri.............. How aaarrrrrre yooooooooouu??

So- you crazy woman! Watchooooo up ya?? Lol

 

[Soanxious]

at 7am BM I was snoring!!! having mental dreams.. that I have now forgotten about.. and my throat is killing me and I feel like I have swallowed one of your cotton balls... cough cough cough tickle cough !! ERGHHH!!!

Question... are cotton balls just picked straight off a plant and put in a bag for the shop to sell? and how do you grow the plastic to get the cotton ear bud effect?

loving the name Leighkar

 

[brighteyez73]

BM - thank you thats one of our favorites too! And I love the name Leighkar. LOL I also love the name I missed you ladies too! I pray you prediction is right! How are you doing?

 

[Soanxious]

im ill... got some kinda viral thing.. burning chest n throat n headaches blurgh!!

hope your well.. whats happening?

 

[Bushmumma]

Bright I'm doing very well, will be POAS tomorrow first time OPK tester beginning lol...

So- well you see the growing plastic is very tricky
The cotton balls could be taken straight off the plant and used at home here, we have to take the seeds out first though and then it's soft and lovely. How they actually process is much the same, it gets picked and baled and sent to be ginned, in the gin they seperate seeds and any trashed picked up in the pickers. The seeds gets treated for regrowing and the trash put out in a paddock and stock piled it does break down and then gets worked into the ground. The remaining soft cotton gets send to respected factory's and processed in with ever manner necessary eg, pure cotton balls are washed, dried and spun loosely into the cotton balls we know today and all to my knowledge are completely natural and untouched fibers with no bleaching or chemicals. It's very interesting to watch such a well used commodity grow from the beginning, we do it all right from ground prep to planting watering and picking
Hope I haven't bored anyone lol...

 

[Soanxious]

No not boring at all.. sounds really interesting... im a little slow here.. but honestly I didnt realise till a few years ago cotton actually grew they way it did.. not till google was invented did I know that!! haha

God knows where I thought it came from before!!

 

[Ladybirdgb]

going to google cotton growth

 

[Bushmumma]

Bloody hell So, you funny bugger!!

Lady, it's pretty cool ..

Would you like some more info on it from a cotton farmer/ cotton farmers daughter?

 

[Ladybirdgb]

Go on then bm you will prob tell it better than google

 

[Bushmumma]

Rodger .....
Okky dokky, so we start with hilling up this means to put rows in the paddock, then it gets fertilised with M.A.P and urea. Once hilled up the beds need to be rolled as to give a flat top for the seed to be sown into, also makes planting easier too. In about September weather permitting we start planting. The seed gets sown in at a finger nail depth has it's first water (irrigation) once the plant is about 2-3weeks old it has 3 leaves and it ready to be cultivated, this operation takes out any new weeds that have begun to grow. It then gets sprayed with a big spray. Then cultivated again. Sprayed again and cultivated one last time. As the cotton grows and starts to fill in the tractor can no longer be in the paddock as it damages the cotton. In the beginning of November we put up rotta butts, these allow water to be transferred from a head ditch to the rottabutt with the use of a syphon. We continue to water right through til march mid- end of. Then you begin to watch as all the buds where the flowers once homed have fallen and in there place is a bowl. This bowl contains the young cotton. Inside is wet and creamy like and is in sections like a cut orange, each section has one or more seeds in it. The more seeds per section and bowl the better the yeild. There are on average 18-20 bowls per plant. This year we have an average of 32-41 bowls per plant and we are late for picking as picking normally begins the first week of April. We are still waiting on bowls to open on top before we can pick. Once opened the pickers come on and take all the cotton off the plant and bale it then it goes to the gin for processing. It's very intricate I think but I have grown up with it. Others would think it rather boring I guess lol...

Hope that gives you a little insight into how we grow cotton. I'll upload a picture of our cotton from about 6 weeks ago to give you an idea of what I'm saying ok

 

[Soanxious]

ohhhhhhhhhh so they are hard like a shell on outside and fluffy n white inside??

Cool!! sounds like hard work.. but must be lovely to be outside a lot... well as long as you dont live in UK that is.. lol

 

[Bushmumma]

Yeah hard outta shell to protect it while it grows then it cracks open slowly an dries as it opens and then you have white fluffy cotton... At the end before picking the paddock looks as though it's been snowed on! Pretty incredible to see I'll send more pics for yous to see it's very lovely!

 

[Soanxious]

OMG Girls... I am crying laughing!!!!

I was looking at different places to visit with my GD when I visit her in Birmingham when I saw the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, so thought I would Tripadvisor it..

The 1st review I saw was this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't stop crying laughing at such a stupid thing to say.... how can you stop nature from mating??? Were staff supposed to stop them or advertise it as an X rated show?

 

[Bushmumma]

Yep silly lady!!

 

[brighteyez73]

Hello ladies,
My temp dropped this morning so I am sure I am out now. But it must not be meant to be because I went home today and got some information that has turned my life upside down. My middle son girlfriend is pregnant. Doesn't it just feels like it's not meant for it to happen for me. Last time I was trying my oldest son girlfriend got pregnant and my grandson is now 1 1/2 years old. So I guess that is God trying to tell me something. My heart is broken and I am so stressed and confused right now. I will stay on just to keep in touch with you lovely ladies and enjoy all the BFPs.

 

[Soanxious]

Brighteyze im so sorry to hear that..but congratulations on having another beautiful Grandbaby xxx



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