Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

OMG Rebecca you need to go to emerg, you could have an artery bleed from that! Please go to emerg

Rebecca (and please my other US friends) please do not take this the wrong way as I love my neighbours to the south but you are a great nation, and I feel it’s horrible that people have to suffer because their insurance won’t approve it or cover it, or not within the scope of their policy.

It’s when I hear stories like this that I am so glad for our universal health care. Yes Kris and I both whine and complain about our respective provinces health care, but if something needs done it gets done, I have had a few of my family and many friends who required hysterectomies before they were 35 even-and got them.. All I have to do is go to emerg and a whole crap load of test gets done, whether I need them or not — specialist brought in, referrals… I pay $900/yr in taxes for this only because I am in an upper tax bracket, if one makes less than (I think $40k/yr) they pay nothing.

Of course YES we have high income tax and other taxes to pay for this, but for that I am extremely grateful. My father had a dissecting aorta 1 week after arriving home from AZ - we were so thankful he had it here and not the US even if he had his insurance it would still not likely have been enough to cover his intensive care oh I am sure he would have had just as great care as here, as I know you medical personnel are awesome, but the cost would likely have wiped out their savings even with insurance.

I wish everyone of my neighbours to the south could have the worry free healthcare I enjoy, it breaks my heart as a former Nurse hear stories like this. Our system has flaws like every system but it’s always been there when my family needed it No questions asked.

Rebecca please be very careful I am worried about you.

Here is a smile for you - oh darn it’s on my other phone - Curly and I were sharing a bagel (actually she was trying to steal it - then she pooped on my office chair haha!). I will post the pic. Of the bagel stealer not the poop!

I sure hope I haven’t offended anyone (I don’t normally stick my nose into things but as a nurse I feel strongly about some things )

 

[Cold-Blood]

X2
(That you need to go to the emergency room.)

 

[Ponypoor]

Bagel stealing silky

She sure isn't afraid to jump up on my lap and take off with my bagel!

 

[Ponypoor]

Guess the poop on the chair was for foiling her robbery attampt

 

[Ponypoor]

Ok so I am hung up on this getting chicks to stuff under my broodies - I even checked Frey's Poultry for their hatching schedule, darn I just missed the July 12th deliveries

Guess it isn't meant to be

 

[Ponypoor]

Jumping jelly beans! Where has the time gone? These chickens and horses are time thieves! It's almost 2pm and I have only done chores and nothing else!

I need to get cracking I have a door to fix!

(I have been up since 5:30 too!)

 

[Ponypoor]

I know it isn't chickens but I have been watching these guys grow up since Spring

I was going into town this morning and these silly geese where roosting on the road, good thing my road is very quiet!

 

[featherhead007]

X2
(That you need to go to the emergency room.)

Sadly, I don’t have any jokes or puns to make Rebecca laugh about this!

 

[featherhead007]

I know it isn't chickens but I have been watching these guys grow up since Spring

I was going into town this morning and these silly geese where roosting on the road, good thing my road is very quiet!

Then they slowly waddle away, waddle, waddle! You need a goose pusher installed on the truck.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Around here if you do that Sydney will eat it for you.

Yes, Butters loses a lot of great tidbits she finds and loses out on quantities of goodies. I try to buy time for her if I'm doling it out. Recently I couldn't get each of them some raspberries equally because they were snatched away from Butters so fast before she could even get a bead on her prize. Popcorn especially plays "treats scatter" for the win.

So I would draw others away from Butters, sometimes with a hand-fake (doesn't work that well - no magician could get away with sleight-of-hand with this bunch), and scatter some raspberries on the other side of the group. When the main 3 piranhas ran for those, get one right in front of Butters. Then hope that she would have it down before the others come rushing back to steal it.
The better way is your walnut-doling strategy of one at a time, when their name is called!