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

[ShrekDawg]

Sleep tight!

Thanks

If she responds to this I am going to die.

Definitely not for everybody! For me, it was perfect.

That’s awesome!!

Barn cat wasn't particular...dry food, mice, chicken scraps...
Our gray barn kitty hasn't stopped by in a few weeks.... think the coyotes got him.
I was putting food in the bowl in the barn and it was disappearing so we just thought we were simply missing his food visits.
So I set up the animal camera and got pictures of a possum, a raccoon, a skunk and a yellow tabby cat visiting the bowl.
We secured all possible access points, stopped the raccoon and possum from coming in the barn. Now we think the skunk has a nest under the lumber stack in the back of the barn because it still visits the food bowl.
The yellow cat still crawls under the barn door to get to the feed.
Tonight I set a live trap for the skunk and put the food dish up higher off the floor for the cat and set up the camera again.
Here Kitty, kitty, kitty!
Will report in the morning the results.

Aww poor kitty hope he’s okay

My uncle has lost most of his flock to coons this week. They ripped through the wood siding on the coop and just killed the chickens, didn’t even eat any of the meat off of them. They’re the worst

That’s awful.

That's terrible.
They're so darn cute, it's too bad they're so evil.

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That's awful! We have a lot of predators around here. We just saw the resident bobcat around dusk crossing from one forested area to another at the edge of the yard. We know it's around and this is hardly new but seeing it always puts my hair on end.

That’s scary!! We have a fox that’s been jumping on top of the chicken run almost every day or at least once a week and scaring the living daylights out of them ha

Tell us you trapped him last night.

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Got the skunk! Only two pictures on the animal cam at 4:04 am
It rained last night...guessing that is why the cat didn't visit the barn.

Going to my younger sister's home to help her in her garden and taking her more compost. She is still in a sling since shoulder reconstruction.

Bbl

Aw maybe tonight.

We don't leave food out at night around here. The food dish goes on the deck right next to the house while my coffee brews and the dish gets brought in at dusk when I'm cleaning up the after-dinner mess.

Otherwise, we're feeding every critter within a mile or five. And I know because I've collected the dish with a broom in hand to fend off an opossum and raccoons back before we learned.

I've watched some YouTube videos on making raccoon-proof feeders. It's essentially relying on a cat being able to jump and raccoons/skunks/opossums being rather limited in that regard. The one thing that strikes me as a design flaw is that none of them seem to try to make the pole itself climb-resistant. I'd trim the 4*4 post down enough to slide a piece of pvc drain pipe over it so the suckers can't easily get up there to try and reach the skirted edge.

I haven't built one, though. Mostly because I fear that even with every other trick, foxes can jump as well as a cat and I'd still be feeding them.

Oh wow that’s scary but that sounds like a good way

Umm coons go up and down my down spout to the house roof... were going in the attic through the power vent.
They also jump from tree limbs between trees. They jump pretty far when I have a pitch fork too

Wow they are agile!

The have good horizontal jumping distance, not so good on the vertical. So, yeah, the idea is to put it somewhere pretty open so going up is the only option and then make that hard to do.

They put metal skirting around the platform part that the raccoon has to reach around. So, it's holding onto a wooden post with its feet while trying to reach around. It just seems so obvious to me that making that post harder to hold onto would help.

That’s true. Reminds me of this video lol

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2207234806004196

Article on big food https://www.businessinsider.com/big-food-corporations-are-making-the-world-fat-2012-12

Wow that’s awful.

I couldn't even finish it, it all makes me so angry.

Same.

The problem I see with this is that it puts all the responsibility on the company. People need to step up and be responsible for what they eat. It's not like the company is forcing people to eat their food, people are choosing it because they like the taste/price/convenience. People are still going to get obese unless they make smarter decisions.

That is true and a good point but at the same time, they should not be bringing a boat through the jungle and trying to sell it to villagers and stuff. They are literally actively seeking out people to target. And most of these people don’t know any better. They see the logo or name brand in movies or whatever and think anything American is really cool, not just food and beverages, so of course they will want to buy it and have it. And most of them don’t know that it’s bad for them and/or can’t necessarily read the ingredients or any English themselves. They just see something novel and cool and American. So in that regard I do think they are kind of taking advantage of that and targeting these people who don’t know any better and that’s not fair, even sick imo.

But yes, for people who do speak English and/or know better, they should do their own research and make choices and avoid it. I admit I’m guilty of buying crap. I don’t really buy anything too bad anymore like Little Debby or coke or anything anymore but look at what I bought yesterday, most of it isn’t exactly healthy. So I’m guilty of that too. And we’re lucky, we know better and can research, but a lot of people can’t or the kids see it in a movie or something and think it’s cool and will buy it and the companies know that and take advantage of that. So I think it is largely the companies fault at least in way out of the way/remote areas like that.

True, people are incharge of their own destinies
BUT trying to eat this junk once a week, even the processed stuff that's marketed as healthy, starts a craving that is hard to resist. I read a study that people with addictive personalities, it acts same as a drug. I know I just can't have one.... so I stay away from it all. Builds character to resist temptation.

This is true too and I am the same way. I can’t just have one and usually stuff is gone either same day, next day, or within a few days or week. And I definitely have an addictive personality hahah already addicted to junk food/sugar, phone/internet, etc. and I am sure if I tried alcohol or cigarettes I would be too but I hate those so. But my dad is addicted to cigarettes and my brother used to be too but isn’t really now though he does use the juul a lot and my mom it’s alcohol and also junk collecting lol and the alcoholism is also on my dad’s side, his father was an alcoholic and I think died of it, and his brother and his whole family are all alcoholics too and his brother smokes too. So I just don’t touch it after seeing what it does. Although that said I was also addicted to something probably worse for a while but that’s been almost 5 years. And no not drugs lol

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[ShrekDawg]

Afternoon everyone lol

 

[Kiki]

Afternoon everyone lol

Good morning you late sleeper!

 

[Kiki]

Afternoon everyone lol

I haven't read your last post yet so if you've been up doing things I apologize.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good morning you late sleeper!

I haven't read your last post yet so if you've been up doing things I apologize.

It’s okay!! Lol but it’s after 1:30pm here. Definitely have not been sleeping all that time I got up maybe 10:30. Ran outside barefoot and in pajamas cause the chickens were acting weird but I couldn’t see anything out there. Anyway, then I went upstairs and read 2 chapters of a book (they’re pretty short chapters but I’m a slow reader lol was gonna read one but it was so suspenseful lol) and then this is lame/stupid/weird/awkward but also the Bible lol only my one favorite little short tiny section but still aha and then I showered. My thinking originally was maybe if I read and stay off my phone and start my day like that I’ll feel better and not get sick but now I actually almost feel worse and more sick because I’ve been lounging around, the laying in bed reading it thing I think started it, but then now I’ve also been on here a little while. Haven’t eaten yet. I had big plans for a big healthy breakfast but now it’s lunch. Think I will still do the breakfast thing though and hav brunch lol but idk. I got up early and had all these big plans but so far all I’ve done is read, shower, and sit here lol but I am going to a show tonight so I wanted to sleep in and start my day right but instead it backfired and I feel like I’ve been lounging even though most of it has been off the phone. But it is cold and cloudy and a little off and on rainy here anyway so good indoor day but still. I am thinking I will eat now before I get totally sick from not eating which i think is what is happening lol but last night I took a shower then a epsom salt bath which wasn’t the best idea as the water got kind of cold fast as there wasn’t much hot water left so it was kind of warm borderline cold so I didn’t sweat like you’re supposed to with detox bathes but I did at least relax and almost fall asleep LOL stayed in there half an hour and then read the big book and slept the best I have in a while cause I slept straight through until 10:30 and didn’t wake up. Normally I wake up between 6 and 8 and have to pee. And I drank a lot of water before bed too. But nope. Slept straight though. Although that said I was about to explode this morning LOL but I slept well. Maybe that’s partly why I feel weird, almost over tired lol but I will try to do something today.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good morning you late sleeper!

I haven't read your last post yet so if you've been up doing things I apologize.

Also wow how did it take me like 17 mins to reply

 

[Molpet]

the Bible lol only my one favorite little short tiny section

reading the Bible is a good thing

 

[ShrekDawg]

reading the Bible is a good thing

Thanks! I think so too but I didn’t know who else was here and I also thought we’re probably not really supposed to mention it on the site so that’s why I prefaced it like that lol although even off the site I do. I always try to hide it for some reason. But yeah, I read it and also prayed some last night and this morning and idk, maybe it’s crazy but I honestly think I slept better cause of it or maybe just from the bath and reading another book but either way, I think I am going to make that a regular or daily thing. The bath and reading a book before bed because I slept way better but also the reading the Bible and praying thing because I think that helped me sleep too and the morning one I think I’m calmer from all of it. Idk. Sounds weird but I think it’s true. I’ve believed a while, kind of found him myself in high school when I was going through some stuff (my mom was raised Catholic/believes but we never really went to church or anything so that’s what I mean by found him myself, not so much that it never came out, just no one in my family was/is really religious) but since then our relationship has been... ever changing aha not the greatest. Idk. I go through phases where I’m really super close and read it a lot and pray and stuff and then phases where it’s kind of the polar opposite. Trying to work on it and make it more regular. In between phases, I do still listen to a lot of Christian music and I pray about stupid little random stuff throughout the day, mostly out of OCD than really intentional, but I rarely actually read the Bible and definitely don’t go to church so I’m trying to work on it and change that and at the very least read the Bible more. Cause I do notice I feel way better whenever I do. I just need to be better about it.

 

[Molpet]

Thanks! I think so too but I didn’t know who else was here and I also thought we’re probably not really supposed to mention it on the site so that’s why I prefaced it like that lol although even off the site I do. I always try to hide it for some reason. But yeah, I read it and also prayed some last night and this morning and idk, maybe it’s crazy but I honestly think I slept better cause of it or maybe just from the bath and reading another book but either way, I think I am going to make that a regular or daily thing. The bath and reading a book before bed because I slept way better but also the reading the Bible and praying thing because I think that helped me sleep too and the morning one I think I’m calmer from all of it. Idk. Sounds weird but I think it’s true. I’ve believed a while, kind of found him myself in high school when I was going through some stuff (my mom was raised Catholic/believes but we never really went to church or anything so that’s what I mean by found him myself, not so much that it never came out, just no one in my family was/is really religious) but since then our relationship has been... ever changing aha not the greatest. Idk. I go through phases where I’m really super close and read it a lot and pray and stuff and then phases where it’s kind of the polar opposite. Trying to work on it and make it more regular. In between phases, I do still listen to a lot of Christian music and I pray about stupid little random stuff throughout the day, mostly out of OCD than really intentional, but I rarely actually read the Bible and definitely don’t go to church so I’m trying to work on it and change that and at the very least read the Bible more. Cause I do notice I feel way better whenever I do. I just need to be better about it.

yeah the admins don't allow too much religion or politics... so many different views and some people are not tolerant of others views.
Keep reading and praying. I pray in gratitude every morning and everytime something goes right.. and if it goes wrong I am thankful it wasn't worse

 

[ShrekDawg]

yeah the admins don't allow too much religion or politics... so many different views and some people are not tolerant of others views.
Keep reading and praying. I pray in gratitude every morning and everytime something goes right.. and if it goes wrong I am thankful it wasn't worse

Yeah, that makes sense. Thankfully I think you guys all probably are. And I like that, that’s a good attitude. I think I will start doing that and definitely keep up the other stuff. For as much as I listen to Christian music, how many religious/self help type books I have, and as much as I claim to believe and stuff, I have actually read the Bible shockingly few times. I need to work on that.