Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[perchie.girl]

I was chatting with Mrs Oz today and I was reminded of her adventurous nature.

This has nothing to do with chickens but a lot to do with us.

It has a bit of fluff from the people selling DVD at the beginning so skip to the 2 minute mark.

The 420 feet high Victoria Falls Bridge crosses the Zambezi River just below the Victoria Falls and is built over the Second Gorge of the falls. As the river is the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, the bridge links the two countries and has border posts on the approaches to both ends. Its one of two locations in the world where we have walked from one country to another.

Wholly CRap..... Did I see a smidgen of worry on your face in that one shot.... Has she done something like this before?

dang....

deb

 

[ozexpat]

Wholly CRap..... Did I see a smidgen of worry on your face in that one shot.... Has she done something like this before?

dang....

deb

i looked scared but i was more concerned with trying to get a good shot with the camera lol.

 

[ozexpat]

Its Lanzones season in the Philippines

Mrs Oz and Toni picked up a bushel on the way home from school.

 

[ozexpat]

Well, if we're bragging here...... When I was a Correctional Officer in the early '70s, at the so-called "Academy." the perception of the Range Master was "these girls can't shoot for [feces]." We had to qualify with the mini-14. There were four women and 23 men in our class.

We had to wait for the instructors to come to our places on the firing line after our first pattern of three single shots. I was the fourth woman and therefore the last one in the class; his expression was resigned. Each woman before me had required several minutes of instruction. He looked over at my target with its tight pattern, then back at me. "Have you fired before?"

"Not this weapon."

He asked me to show my stance, which I did. The male classmates on either side of me had already spent some time admiring my target, so they also watched this demonstration with interest. The instructor nodded at me and moved on to the guy next to me on the firing line. "Don't p*i*s*s her off, she shoots low."

Yeah, but still in the kill zone.

like i said..... scary women

 

[OffGridMAMA]

Laughing so hard I'm crying apparently we aren't sissies around here.... scary women rock

 

[Phage]

That video of Mrs Oz bungy jumping reminds me of the time I went to Queenstown in New Zealand MAINLY to do the bungy jump.

That was way before it became popular (and safer) and was with the AJ Hackett company who apparently invented it there.

That was a LONG LONG time ago and I still remember it like yesterday. A life high point but NEVER again. The glacier climbing the next day without ropes (unbelievably stupid - one slip and you could be dead 100ft down a crevasse) seemed tame in comparison.

My then BF (who became DH) thought I was totally crazy but had to jump too since I had

Only regret is that we did not get the video. $20 seemed too much to spend on a video when back-packing across the world...

The certificates do reside on the wall in our bathroom though and we still have the t-shirts......

 

[apteryx]

That video of Mrs Oz bungy jumping reminds me of the time I went to Queenstown in New Zealand MAINLY to do the bungy jump.

That was way before it became popular (and safer) and was with the AJ Hackett company who apparently invented it there.

That was a LONG LONG time ago and I still remember it like yesterday. A life high point but NEVER again. The glacier climbing the next day without ropes (unbelievably stupid - one slip and you could be dead 100ft down a crevasse) seemed tame in comparison.

My then BF (who became DH) thought I was totally crazy but had to jump too since I had

Only regret is that we did not get the video. $20 seemed too much to spend on a video when back-packing across the world...

The certificates do reside on the wall in our bathroom though and we still have the t-shirts......

Did you go to the winery across the road? The drive in and out along a narrow ledge is great fun!

 

[Phage]

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Did you go to the winery across the road? The drive in and out along a narrow ledge is great fun!

No- we were too young and poor to be into wine!

We did buy a car as one was offered for about the same price as a 1 week rental - should have figured there was something fishy...

it was a very old white (ish) Honda civic. We soon found that it used equal parts oil and gas

The worst of it was at with no particular warning it would accelerate uncontrollable, usually when stopping at one of those one lane bridge-over-canyon passes when a truck was coming straight at you, or going around some cliff-face road. It was a thing possessed.

We called it Psycho sheep - and for good reason.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Agreed..

I'm learning to be a good American woman. Yet to shoot a gun though, but you know how that is, you have similar issues in the Phillipines (as we read in your story). The US doesn't like immigrants with guns either

True story.

My husband, who immigrated here as a 3 yr old boy, got himself into a HEAP of trouble as a teenager. He and a bunch of boys were driving around with a sawed off shotgun, just being idiots. Well they got pulled over and guess who got arrested? Because he was 19, he served 6 months over the whole shebang.

Then, because he was an immigrant, in 1996 when the immigrant laws changed, he suddenly found himself at risk of deportation because unlawful possession is considered an aggravated felony. When he and I married in 2004, we set out to deal with his immigration issues, had the felony successfully vacated and then set out to have him naturalized.

9 years and many thousands of dollars later, he finally became a US Citizen last week.

So...no, the US does NOT like immigrants with guns, lol!

 

[ozexpat]

True story.

My husband, who immigrated here as a 3 yr old boy, got himself into a HEAP of trouble as a teenager. He and a bunch of boys were driving around with a sawed off shotgun, just being idiots. Well they got pulled over and guess who got arrested? Because he was 19, he served 6 months over the whole shebang.

Then, because he was an immigrant, in 1996 when the immigrant laws changed, he suddenly found himself at risk of deportation because unlawful possession is considered an aggravated felony. When he and I married in 2004, we set out to deal with his immigration issues, had the felony successfully vacated and then set out to have him naturalized.

9 years and many thousands of dollars later, he finally became a US Citizen last week.

So...no, the US does NOT like immigrants with guns, lol!

Lots of kids that do something silly while on a green card end up getting deported. They used to give adoptees green cards instead of citizenship even though one or both parents were citizens. There were hundreds of 17 year olds sent back to Vietnam and Korea with no knowledge of their birth country or its language. Fortunately they no recognise the child of a US citizen as a US citizen regardless of whether the child was natural born or adopted.