promiseacres
Herd Master
We have a boy and 2 girls. 3,6, 9 . We have fun.
4h, basrball, softball, homeschool. Bunnies, horses. Camping. Love sharing my love of critters and nature with them.
Coffee anyone ?
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4h, basrball, softball, homeschool. Bunnies, horses. Camping. Love sharing my love of critters and nature with them.
Bruce
Herd Master
Well ain't THAT just dandy! We have a lot of Cumberland Farms/Gulf stations up here. I figured CF was owned by Gulf, not the other way around. Live and learn.
Wish I could think about dairy goats but I wouldn't have a lot of use for the ~50% male offspring getting the does back in milk each year. And DD1 would not accept selling them as food. Just how many cute little bucklings or wethers can one foist off on people! Of course I have so much to do, I don't really have time to get set up for goats anyway.
MatthewsHomestead
True BYH Addict
MatthewsHomestead
True BYH Addict
Or sell your bucks to kids for 4H
Baymule
Herd Master
Being a stay at home Mom or Dad is the most important job one can have. Your kids are little ONE time, you get ONE chance, then they are grown and gone. Enjoy this time with your family.
MatthewsHomestead
True BYH Addict
Yes! That's exactly what I'm doing! And trying to teach them the basics of life, mostly unplugged, with responsibilities according to their age here on the mini farm. Crossing my fingers we raise them right!
greybeard
Herd Master
Note I said CF owned Gulf Oil "until recently"..
They no longer do but do still own a big part of Gulf, or more accurately, GOLP which stands for Gulf Oil Limited Partnership. They are out of Mass too. You have to realize, that by the time CF got Gulf, the whole T. Boone Pickens thing had passed and Chevron and Gulf had already merged (with Chevron being the majority owner) but by that time (as a result of the hostile takeover attempt by Pickens) Gulf had already divested itself of a lot of it's worldwide holdings. It was Chevron that actually sold the Gulf NE US operations to CF. BP also got in on part of that deal and it is how BP got so many stations in the Northeast as well.
Gulf is/was one of those corps, that the name brand, and it's individual parts is/was worth more $$ than the whole enchilada is/was.
It's 'complicated'. Gulf is still an active company, but it is not the same size or kind of company it was pre-1985. The brand, is worth a HUGE amt of $$ tho. In the 1990s, CF, BP, and Chevron were all making and selling products under the Gulf name in the NE, but none of them would accept each other's credit cards. If you had a Chevron gasoline credit card, and went to a Gulf station owned by CF, you couldn't use your Gulf or Chevron Credit card..you had to use a CF gas credit card. (I saw the same thing happen with Exxon and Mobil stations after their merger)
promiseacres
Herd Master
Coffee is on. Was inspired by @Baymule & made blueberry crisp for dessert last night.
Baymule
Herd Master
Thank you. It’s hard to beat fresh blueberries. We usually pick a lot and I freeze them . I woke up at 1:30 and went back to sleep sometime after 5. Bleh. Coffee is good and your blueberry buckle is better!
MatthewsHomestead
True BYH Addict
I've got honey butter biscuits and homemade strawberry preserve or homemade blackberry preserve! Can stick more coffee on or a tall glass of sweet iced tea! Been a crazy morning and now I'm about to spritz ACV on my new horses hooves. She has a mild case of thrush. Probably from all this rain we've had and no one has given her hooves much attention until I started cleaning them.
