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Thanks LFG for sharing the site. If only I lived south of here and were retired, I would absolutely love to have some of these beautiful birds. The eggs look amazing!

The Farm Show is amazing! I'm with Petee, I hate that it's in the middle of winter in PA

I want more investigations. They are a huge corporation, 600,000 probably doesn't mean as much to them as the bad publicity.

Did you get any eggs? I love this thread!

Thanks so much!

It's just so wrong. Total disregard for employee's lives.

I saw this on WJAC today, unbelievable!

I so agree with you. I don't want anyone to forget what happened or stop asking questions.

I know lots of folks love autumn, I do too, but to a point. I hate that everything is dying. I love spring when everything is coming to life. I had my annual cry in my garden this week. It's just so sad that it's almost over and we have to wait until next May to plant again, 8 months away.

We just finished a little while ago doing two batches of canned tomatoes, my favorite! I just wish we could get some warm nights!!!

Over the years, I've talked to employees, I know that you aren't paid "well". And with the danger involved, I feel for all of you. Pro or anti union, you folks need one. Then you would not be threatened with loss of your job for coming forward about the danger involved. I don't want this story to fade away, I hope that WJAC keeps on it. And I want to say thank you for your honesty and for what you do in the environment that you have to work in.

I'm going to try again for smoker recipes? It will be soon time to put the smoker away and I'd like to try some different things before we put it away for the winter. TIA!

Shhhh, don't say climate change!! Just kidding, but I agree with you. This August was weird, usually I'm not fond of it because I'm warm blooded and hate humidity, but wow at the temps we've been having. I feel for those wanting to enjoy their pools.

I know, we need some warm nights! I remember way back, maybe 20 or more years ago, we had the same situation. We picked all of the tomatoes and put down newspapers and laid them all out in a single layer and then covered them. They did ripen but it took time. And I just don't like the thoughts of it, I'd rather they ripen naturally, on the plants.

After listening to the cell phone calls between a couple of employees that WJAC aired, I think that they were very afraid. And one worker spoke to Kody from WJAC under anonymity because he was afraid of losing his job. I have to agree with Micheal, if unionized, the employees wouldn't have to be afraid of exposing what was going on. They all saw the danger and that it was building. Most of these guys live paycheck to paycheck, they don't get good wages from AD and they have families to support. We've talked to four of them, they were all afraid. And they're still afraid of speaking out because they need their jobs, it's just a really sad situation. I was so hoping that something would be done, but a 12000 fine just doesn't cut it. For a life lost and they're just really lucky that many more lives weren't lost that day.

Oh I know, I don't like storms at all and I absolutely HATE humidity! July and August here are usually really humid, but this August is very weird, we have temps way, way below the average. The low tonight in some areas will be in the 30's! I think in DuBois in the 40's. It doesn't bother me at all, but my garden needs some warm nights.

Now quit yer bragging :)! Hubby's best friend is from Alabama and he's always talking about his two gardens every year just to make me drool! But he does bring me up fresh peaches every year, so all is forgiven.

I wonder if Advanced Disposal/Greentree makes political contributions? I'm too tired to look tonight.

Ours is a 1986, old one, but in great condition. Hubby is on-line many nights looking for another one, to me one is enough. My favorite of hubby's 2500's was the 2005, I loved that truck! But he had to trade it in to get another one 2009 and then the last one in 2014...LAST ONE!!! I take back that the 2005 was my favorite, actually the very best of his trucks was the 1992 Silverado, it was the smoothest ride ever. I think I shed a few tears when we gave it to our son. He no longer has it, but it's still on the road, we see it all the time.

We have a Vette too, it's an old one but we love it, it's our splurge I guess. It's never driven in bad weather, which we have an abundance of up here. We hear the same kind of comments. One child, grown and with a family of his own. So we're at a point of thinking we did our job and now we can actually spend money on us sometimes. Now that doesn't mean that I want hubby to get another 2500 Silverado...no, no, no!!!

Hubby will only have a Silverado 2500, I've tried to talk him into a 1500 numerous times, but no way! Good grief, they are so expensive

Yes, we trellis the peas, sugar snaps, cucumbers and the cantalope. We had to pull the peas about three weeks ago because of the powdery mildew thing and now it's onto the squash. I did research it and there are varying opinions.

We just planted the last of the onions on Saturday, we love green onions, so I buy a lot of them and as we pick, we re-plant them. We didn't do watermelon this year but we did plant cantaloupe and they're doing really well. You just never know with a garden from one year to the next, it just keeps us on our toes!

I'm finally getting tomatoes, hoping to get enough for a couple of loads to can. Peppers are crazy! I'm going to do a couple of loads of them in the next few days. At least one in evoo and vinegar and one in evoo and sauce. I already did two loads of refrigerator pickled peppers. And we stuffed a bunch and froze them. The cukes are about done. And my squash aren't looking too happy either. My peas got this white film on them so we pulled them early and now the squash has the same thing, so we're going to pull them. I hope everyone's gardens are doing well!

Actually they aren't paid that well at all for the danger that they are put into on a daily basis.