Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[micstrachan]

OMG, never knew that about foxtails. pretty much all animals are at risk! I don't beleive I have any on my property, but looking at the image in the link, I am pretty sure I've seen some in this area.

Foxtail - basic info from UC Davis
Foxtail: Wiki w/ images
Foxtail: google search/images

We are LOADED with foxtails here! Nasty little things!

 

[micstrachan]

Monday Mugs

Hazel & Peanut today
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Beauties!

 

[BY Bob]

Devastated

I may not get over this. One of the great joys of my spring has been taken from me.

Last year

 

[BY Bob]

2fer Tuesday

Not a great selection for today. I did not specifically look for done this past week.

How about nearly 40 lbs of cat in one window?

 

[rural mouse]

2fers, some duplicates from earlier. Currently under winter storm conditions, so brrrrrrrrr

Hector and Asphodel

Cheetah and PITA

Cuckoo, with Blanche behind and Cheetah next to her. I think PITA was on the other side of him....

 

[bgmathteach]

This is the perfect way to view this. Try to remember this as well. I endeavor to live by this code.

A life full of stories to tell is a life well lived.

We should all strive to acquire stories through which we can fascinate others and entertain our loved ones. Who doesn't want to be around people with great stories to tell.

To that end let me tell one from our trip to Italy in 2019 to scout locations for my daughter's wedding.

It was a whirlwind trip. We went from the very north of Italy to south of Naples and saw 13 venues in 5 days. We flew in, landed in Milan got in our rental car and immediately set off for Lake Como to meet a wedding planner and see 3 venues. So we were hustling.

Only my daughter had ever been to Italy before and she had moved about by train and plane. No one had ever driven in Italy before. My future son-in-law (SIL) agreed that he would do all the driving since I was footing the bill. He is sweet character and he would wind up taking some abuse from all his passengers frequently during the next few days.

Despite our overall unhelpfulness he manages to get us up onto the highway towards Lake Como successfully and we blissfully buzzed towards our destination.

Little did we know, we were on a toll road.

None of us have Euros.

And none of us read or speak Italian.

Typical Americans.

All of a sudden the highway comes to an end and toll booths appear.

Panic ensues.

"Who's got euros?"

"What do you mean you don't have any?!" "You were supposed to get them."

"Don't blame me." "You organized this." "How come you didn't get euros?"

"What are we going to do?"

"Everyone calm down." "Look there is a credit card slot!"

"Thank the lord." "Here's my Amex."

"See no reason to panic."

I pass my Anex up to SIL and he slides it into and back out of the slot.

Easy Peasy.

Some words appear on the screen that none of us understand and the gate does not raise.

My daughter starts up. "It didn't work. "Try again." " How can you not know how to use a credit card?"

SIL slides the card in and out again.

More strange words, no raising gate.

Thankfully we are in a rural area at the end of the highway and there are no cars piled up behind us. SIL was under enough pressure.

There is no denying the Italians must be clever people and planned ahead for tourists because there is a speaker system at the toll booth and it includes buttons for different languages. Imagine that. Each language is represented by a flag of that country next to the button. French, German, Spanish, Italian, and thankfully English as represented by the British flag.

My daughter is going now. "What is wrong with you? " "Why can't you slide a credit card correctly?" "You need help, hit the speaker button." "Push the one with the British flag."

At this point SIL is flustered. He is clearly not thinking straight as he pushes the speaker button with the Italian flag.

The speaker turns on and gibberish comes out.

SIL is game though. "Credit Card" he says.

Gibberish says the speaker.

"Credit Card" he says again, thinking somehow he will get a different answer.

The speaker spews forth gibberish again.

So like every american SIL decides to make the words credit card Italian by adding a vowel at the end.

"Credit Carda"

More gibberish in response but now the gibberish is starting to sound irritated.

SIL is not easily dissuaded and something in his head said try naming the credit card.

"American Express" issues forth from his mouth.

The speaker understands that, "Oh, no American Express, Visa"

I hand SIL my Visa........he swipes it........... like magic the gate opens.

We head on our way.

To this day when he makes a bone headed mistake I say, "Credit Carda"

It always gets a laugh, including from him.

OMG, @BY Bob , I almost peed my pants laughing so hard. Thank you for this!

 

[bgmathteach]

Some sort of two-fer Tuesday pics. They don't exactly cooperate!

 

[BY Bob]

2fers, some duplicates from earlier. Currently under winter storm conditions, so brrrrrrrrr

View attachment 3059843Hector and Asphodel

View attachment 3059845Cheetah and PITA

View attachment 3059846Cuckoo, with Blanche behind and Cheetah next to her. I think PITA was on the other side of him....

Awesome pics!

 

[BY Bob]

OMG, @BY Bob , I almost peed my pants laughing so hard. Thank you for this!

That makes me very happy. I'm glad I could lighten your day.

 

[BY Bob]

Some sort of two-fer Tuesday. They don't exactly cooperate!View attachment 3059861View attachment 3059864View attachment 3059865

I love it! There are 2 chickens there!