➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Ursuline Chick]

good night all, have to get up tomorrow and drive 2 girls to Pensacola, so they can help open a snow ball stand. (what a rotten first job, right )

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I had a friend that would get his horse to kiss him one too many times. The friend was liquored up and wanted the horse to kiss him so his fellow partiers could see it. I suspect the horse wasn't happy about the constant fussing and possibly the beer smel so instead of kissing him, the horse bit his nose off. That accounts for the scars on his nose.

That’s what he gets. Horses are very temperamental and get annoyed with things real fast.

 

[Tesumph]

Random vacation questions (sorry guys... hope no one minds ) @KikisGirls what river did you tell me tobtube in with the kids? Also would you all who have been to sea world San antonio say that the water park and sea world could easily be done in the same day or does each warrant a day of its own? TIA

Yea you could do both if you were there all day. We never went into the waterpark area (its very clearly for young children) but covered the entire rest of the park in less than 5 hours, including the better part of the orca, dolphin, and otter/sea lion shows.
I’ve said it before but I can’t say it enough: book the penguin tour or dolphin swimming/meeting thing. We had to watch other people do it and were extremely jealous, I really wish we’d spent money on that instead of the stupid “gold passes” or whatever.

My ex BIL had the meat of his thumb smashed by his son turning on the log splitter at the wrong time. The Dr. sewed his thumb to his belly to graft tissue and skin onto the thumb. He now has to shave his thumb.

I saw (not in person) a really interesting surgery where they used part of a man’s testicle skin for a skin graft on his thumb.
He had little curly pubies on his thumb pad!

 

[NanaKat]

My scars are from a knee replacement, gall bladder, two carpal tunnels, two back surgeries, bunion surgeries on both feet and two shoulder reconstructions...,I'm almost bionic.
But younger sister has has a recurring cyst in her brain following a fall from a running horse when the cinch on her saddle broke 32 years ago. She nearly died. Her sons were 6 and 8. Over the years she has had to have the cyst (drained) fenastrated.
Her third surgery was last month and included a drain tube with a pressure valve. The drain tube descends from the cyst down her neck to her abdomen. This should keep the cerebral fluid from accumulating again. Her scar is 2 inches behind her right ear. She is greatly improved and healing quickly.

 

[Tesumph]

My scars are from a knee replacement, gall bladder, two carpal tunnels, two back surgeries, bunion surgeries on both feet and two shoulder reconstructions...,I'm almost bionic.
But younger sister has has a recurring cyst in her brain following a fall from a running horse when the cinch on her saddle broke 32 years ago. She nearly died. Her sons were 6 and 8. Over the years she has had to have the cyst (drained) fenastrated.
Her third surgery was last month and included a drain tube with a pressure valve. The drain tube descends from the cyst down her neck to her abdomen. This should keep the cerebral fluid from accumulating again. Her scar is 2 inches behind her right ear. She is greatly improved and healing quickly.

Wow, congrats to her on a successful surgery and not being killed by horses! That drain tube sounds pretty neat, I’ve never heard of that. Both of my grandmother-in-laws have had invasive surgeries for problems similar to my own, and they’re doing great now, but that stuff makes me very nervous.

I’m not really sure where my scars go in that poll. I have a faded dog bite on my face, some stupid teenager scars, and an embarrassing amount from sleepwalking.

The very first time I ever talked to my husband on the phone when we were “just friends,” I burned myself horribly with a tea kettle on my inner arm.
He still makes fun of me for it.

 

[NanaKat]

Because I was asked...here are a few photos of artwork.
3D is 3 dimensional art...sculpture, pottery, as opposed to flat work like drawings or paintings which are 2D.
My Marlboro Man, pottery - handbuilt and wheel thrown, a Dying Swan ballerina, and a lifesize head.
The sculpture and pottery is stoneware clay. The red burnished pot is Oklahoma red clay.

And some 2D - an acrylic painting and three graphite drawings. The 28 X 35 inch painting of "Hoare Frost" was from an old calendar. The owl was from a photo and the portraits are my daughter and an old friend before she died... Una Alice was 90 when this 18" x 24" portrait was done from a photo. That was over 35 years ago.

On pencil work/graphite I always told my students to try to get at least 10 values or shades ranging from black to white. And a sharp eraser is a great drawing tool for removing thin wisps of hair and feather.

 

[Kiki]

Because I was asked...here are a few photos of artwork.
3D is 3 dimensional art...sculpture, pottery, as opposed to flat work like drawings or paintings which are 2D.
My Marlboro Man, pottery - handbuilt and wheel thrown, a Dying Swan ballerina, and a lifesize head.
The sculpture and pottery is stoneware clay. The red burnished pot is Oklahoma red clay.
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And some 2D - an acrylic painting and three graphite drawings. The 28 X 35 inch painting of "Hoare Frost" was from an old calendar. The owl was from a photo and the portraits are my daughter and an old friend before she died... Una Alice was 90 when this 18" x 24" portrait was done from a photo. That was over 35 years ago.
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On pencil work/graphite I always told my students to try to get at least 10 values or shades ranging from black to white. And a sharp eraser is a great drawing tool for removing thin wisps of hair and feather.

Wow Nan!
You are great!

 

[Kiki]

@Tiana's chickens just hatched a chick with an electric frying pan thing!
Join my hatching journey

 

[Glitterchicks]

@Tiana's chickens just hatched a chick with an electric frying pan thing!
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[Glitterchicks]

I'm catching up on 254 posts .
Busy day yesterday! We had a party for my SIL yesterday and i've been up ALLLL night with my sick 3 year old . I cleaned up so much puke and it grossed me out so bad that I threw up too, which makes me pee my pants (as does EVERYTHING such as jumping, running, coughing without crossing my legs, laughing without crossing my legs...I was fine for before having 3 kids, I swear) so then i'm cleaning up my own vomit and having to shower us both off. Then I realize that I missed another puke pile and start all over again.

That all being said... can someone please give me a recap??