Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[MaryJanet]

Can you imagine the snap from that broody hen! Yikes!

"did it swallow my fingers? Come back emu!! Why is that bird so fast??."

Seriously I still think it should be left alone. They're usually quite traffic savvy. They'd rather run alongside a car than in front of it. I once saw one run alongside a car for quite a distance.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Wot? Not Croc [as in Crocodile Dundee?

People around here aren't very worldly, they have no idea where Emu come from, hence why he was named after a TV commercial...

 

[MaryJanet]

We're pretty sure it's a male and everyone's been calling him Doug.

I really feel like I should call the news or something...LOL

Doug is a perfect emu name!

 

[LozzyR]

It’s not Caturday just yet guys!

 

[MaryJanet]

Oh Doug. Of course! Though shouldn't it be LiMu?
Sorry, our Ozzie friends likely don't get the joke.

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Limu looks like a baby emu. Not very tall yet. Or maybe Doug is super tall.

 

[Kris5902]

@Shadrach I agree completely! Despite our (relatively) young ages, DH and I have several risk factors. I have had pneumonia three times, both the viral and bacterial. Andrew has had several heart surgeries and has a pacemaker. He has had the pacemaker since he was 11 or 12, and wasn’t really expected to live to age 1! If more of the general public would use common sense it wouldn’t be so bad... I also worry that the psychological impact of the prohibitions on “socializing” causes a backlash and results in more risky behaviors when they are relaxed.

 

[Shadrach]

@Shadrach I agree completely! Despite our (relatively) young ages, DH and I have several risk factors. I have had pneumonia three times, both the viral and bacterial. Andrew has had several heart surgeries and has a pacemaker. He has had the pacemaker since he was 11 or 12, and wasn’t really expected to live to age 1! If more of the general public would use common sense it wouldn’t be so bad... I also worry that the psychological impact of the prohibitions on “socializing” causes a backlash and results in more risky behaviors when they are relaxed.

I make a point of going into the local village and sitting outside my favourite bar having a coffee and a cigar. I have also been to lunch a few times with people I know well. It is a bit strange when everyone takes their temperature at the door with one of those scanner thermometers and take their shoes off and leave them outside. Some of the people I know also have hand disinfectant by the door. Essentially the same to better precautions that one would find entering a 'good' supermarket here. We still go shopping. Our minds tell us it's an essential task for survival. For some people some degree of social contact is also essential for survival.
There isn't much point staggering out of the other side of this crisis happily claiming the virus didn't get you if you've lost your marbles getting there.
I'm almost 66. I've got a stent in the tube that feeds oxygen to my lungs. Catching a bad dose of Covid would probably make me pretty ill. Add to this that I'm quite content not to even speak to a human fromone month to the next, I still feel that making sure I have some social contact is part of a healthy life diet.

 

[Ribh]

I make a point of going into the local village and sitting outside my favourite bar having a coffee and a cigar. I have also been to lunch a few times with people I know well. It is a bit strange when everyone takes their temperature at the door with one of those scanner thermometers and take their shoes off and leave them outside. Some of the people I know also have hand disinfectant by the door. Essentially the same to better precautions that one would find entering a 'good' supermarket here. We still go shopping. Our minds tell us it's an essential task for survival. For some people some degree of social contact is also essential for survival.
There isn't much point staggering out of the other side of this crisis happily claiming the virus didn't get you if you've lost your marbles getting there.
I'm almost 66. I've got a stent in the tube that feeds oxygen to my lungs. Catching a bad dose of Covid would probably make me pretty ill. Add to this that I'm quite content not to even speak to a human fromone month to the next, I still feel that making sure I have some social contact is part of a healthy life diet.

We all need some sort of social contact. I get mine while delivering eggs ~ a brief activity that can still leave me feeling peopled out. I know when it's time to get an occasional top up. I can't imagine that the really social sorts coped well with the sort of restrictions Victoria went through & there was a lot of talk about the effect the lack of social contact was having on kids. The government didn't think this through well.

 

[Shadrach]

Oh gosh, that had me giggling. Hubby had to adk what was so funny. My answer? “Chicken stuff.”
I offered a LIVE mouse to my Buckeye, Ruby, once knowing they are known for being good mousers and she also did the Bawk, bawk baek, bawk alarm call with her neck stretched tall and head tilted sideways. The mouse took off and hid under a vehicle.
I should have offered it to Bridge, my Barred Rock who swallows lizards snd snakes whole. LOL.

Little Donk here would have taken that mouse off your hands.

 

[MaryJanet]

We all need some sort of social contact. I get mine while delivering eggs ~ a brief activity that can still leave me feeling peopled out. I know when it's time to get an occasional top up. I can't imagine that the really social sorts coped well with the sort of restrictions Victoria went through & there was a lot of talk about the effect the lack of social contact was having on kids. The government didn't think this through well.

In SA we've been lucky and socialising was never completely off the table. I haven't had to give up weekly beach walks with my friend, but we stay an arm's length apart just in case. But for a few months, we couldn't go to the cinema. For a short while, we couldn't be in each others' homes. When the schools were shut, it was hard for parents with full time work commitments to teach and care for their kids at the same time. But otherwise it's been ok in SA.