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After you mentioned this, course I went to see. I searched something like Twinkies for sale and just like chocolate bars...size is smaller now and I bet they increased the price too. I guess all those "twinkies are gone!" jokes were short lived. I missed the whole incident, obviously never changed MY life. Ha ha ha...
How utterly horrid...deep fried Twinkies! I can feel a heart attack coming on!
I already KNOW DD is watching...if I post one photo where Lacy is only in the viewfinder or vice versa (girl dog not in photo is usually resting close by me, touching me to reassure me they ARE there!)...I have to make sure fair viewing is adhered to.
But YOU should KNOW that...one cameo spot of Emmy means another cameo of Lacy, then a twin photo, etc.
Of course but mine are on a grass diet for only two months of the whole year! Ten months of feeding forage (alfalfa is not grass, it is from the pea family).
Back in 2003, I acquired five Nigerian DAIRY goats...three females (Heidi is the lone nanny here now) and two males (billies so I could breed unrelated back to the females to keep them freshened). When Rick originally had built my Ewe Barn (Sheep Dip Inn), he put in an elevated feed room. It would have also served as a perfect milking parlour. I purchased a head gate way back also (for tattooing and procedures where one person could not possibly restrain the beast AND do what needed to be done or even examine them properly!). I have milk filters, pails, teat strip cup....so YUP...bin there done that, own the T-shirt!
Looks lovely & delicious! You are blessed to have such a place close by.
The KEY components here...MAN and YOUNG. Of which I am neither...
- MALE - he can take on a job if he likes, the laundry will still get done, the food will still get acquired, prepared and cleaned up after, the current other animals will be cared for, plants will get watered, the home will still run along without a hiccup, if he decides to do a dairy. And if he is not married with a home, he can easily function by hiring a person to do the housework, laundry and dine in restaurants. When I met Rick, he had a woman doing his laundry that ironed his jeans. I warned him, ironed jeans would only happen if I was being taken out for a special dinner at an expensive restaurant. I've stuck to that contract for over 35 years now.
Do you realize that if you entered a home, happened to note the bed was not made...that the majority of persons would blame the wife, lay that responsibility on HER shoulders even if she gets up before the husband and cannot possibly MAKE THE BED WITH HIM IN IT!
Past Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, Cleopatra, Laura Secord, songbirds like Mahala Jackson, rulers like Marie Antoinette or Queen Ann/Victoria/Elizabeth, writers Austen or Dickenson...name me TEN famous women in history, alive or dead...
Do it quickly...as quick as you could do for famous man? Pretty difficult to do eh.
Women are often too busy birthing/raising babies or making the ding dang BED to be able to even look up, let alone do anything even remotely historical. Keep the home fires burning, stand behind the man prodding him with the stock prod to DO something memorable! Even religion and laws favour women in the subservient position...be a good wife, do as your man instructs, support and nurture! When we have iron ladies like Margaret Hilda Thatcher, she is more often remembered as a B-dog than a strong willed political figure with a heart and conscience of gold (set of brass ovaries in tow too!).
Benny did you know this:
You my Dear Benny make food preparation FUN, meals at your home are often a celebrated event...and I am sure your wife, family and honoured guests at your table appreciate your generous talents.
Rick knows how to cook (he apprenticed to be a baker), clean and care for himself...his mother made sure he did not end up with a woman because he needed a MOTHER to look after him. HOWEVER...someone here must pick up these chores if the two of us are to exist here. He's not here--gone at 2 am to 4 am most days and home at 6 pm. NOT here and what is here, ain't much of him left in there right now.
No hives for honey, no dairy for milk or cream; things are being toned back in many areas...some can grow like the sheep flock without consquences. When we do get a day together, what goes on here daily by my efforts, is quickly looked after so we can both have a day away with the dogs doing his hobby...driving, smelling the cut forage, viewing the views, listening to tunes, stopping for ice cream and picking up provisions.
YOUNG - I am trying to cut back on my regulated MUST do each day schedule. A dairy must function, on time, day in and out or your females dry up, production drops and you have wasted your efforts to no benefit. Rick is already as patient as he should be...on the weekends he does not work, he will go to town in the morning while I do "chores" and come back and never say a bad thing that "I" have chosen to take up something that occupies my life...hours every day, 365 days a year. On weekends, I prepare for these outings like the Dickens all week...anything extra gets done, things that can be banked like water topped and feeders cleaned, are done during the week when he is not here. Rick's hobby is driving his restored vehicles with me and his dogs. Leisurely loser laps where we may use the excuse to pick up something from the city, or groceries which happily includes a whole host of dairy products from butter to cheese to sour cream, cream, milk, cream cheese and yoghurt that I feed the dogs and I. Dairy products are a huge part of our life but I am not willing to do the huger part of milking dairy animals for it so I can add the tasks of making them too.
I do believe dairy products are subsidized here...so the farmer gets paid to do what he does best. If you were to compare the cost of hay (which I don't put up forage and we have from May to June--TWO months from TEN where ruminants can graze) compared along with the cost of keeping the animals, dairy, refrigeration, etc., the resources used would be huge compared to making a trip to town to buy dairy.
Yes, I found that out yesterday. Thank you. Not exactly health food, eh
Poor Rick came home, he got to meet up with the fella we were going to town to rendezvous with, so I told him, plates & milk could wait. I was saying to him, he could have a much deserved nap and I think he was mid sentence about something about "I can't sleep now" and he was sawing logs. Slept for two hours straight and only woke up because Lacy started loudly complaining that he might sleep thru dog run runs. Which of course, he did not. He even took the pack over to the berry patch for a handful of Saskatoons. Topped his fish pond and the wild bird feeders.
I have three sets of soaker hoses to go out and place. I was hoping
rain would have happened by now but none forecast till maybe Monday and the taters look a tad wilted. That should be a task and a half...years past I have automatically put the hoses out and in some cases, never once used them. I guess this year I am not so lucky, but at least the efforts are not for nothing!
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
After you mentioned this, course I went to see. I searched something like Twinkies for sale and just like chocolate bars...size is smaller now and I bet they increased the price too. I guess all those "twinkies are gone!" jokes were short lived. I missed the whole incident, obviously never changed MY life. Ha ha ha...
How utterly horrid...deep fried Twinkies! I can feel a heart attack coming on!
I already KNOW DD is watching...if I post one photo where Lacy is only in the viewfinder or vice versa (girl dog not in photo is usually resting close by me, touching me to reassure me they ARE there!)...I have to make sure fair viewing is adhered to.
But YOU should KNOW that...one cameo spot of Emmy means another cameo of Lacy, then a twin photo, etc.
Of course but mine are on a grass diet for only two months of the whole year! Ten months of feeding forage (alfalfa is not grass, it is from the pea family).
Back in 2003, I acquired five Nigerian DAIRY goats...three females (Heidi is the lone nanny here now) and two males (billies so I could breed unrelated back to the females to keep them freshened). When Rick originally had built my Ewe Barn (Sheep Dip Inn), he put in an elevated feed room. It would have also served as a perfect milking parlour. I purchased a head gate way back also (for tattooing and procedures where one person could not possibly restrain the beast AND do what needed to be done or even examine them properly!). I have milk filters, pails, teat strip cup....so YUP...bin there done that, own the T-shirt!
Looks lovely & delicious! You are blessed to have such a place close by.
The KEY components here...MAN and YOUNG. Of which I am neither...
- MALE - he can take on a job if he likes, the laundry will still get done, the food will still get acquired, prepared and cleaned up after, the current other animals will be cared for, plants will get watered, the home will still run along without a hiccup, if he decides to do a dairy. And if he is not married with a home, he can easily function by hiring a person to do the housework, laundry and dine in restaurants. When I met Rick, he had a woman doing his laundry that ironed his jeans. I warned him, ironed jeans would only happen if I was being taken out for a special dinner at an expensive restaurant. I've stuck to that contract for over 35 years now.
Do you realize that if you entered a home, happened to note the bed was not made...that the majority of persons would blame the wife, lay that responsibility on HER shoulders even if she gets up before the husband and cannot possibly MAKE THE BED WITH HIM IN IT!
Past Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, Cleopatra, Laura Secord, songbirds like Mahala Jackson, rulers like Marie Antoinette or Queen Ann/Victoria/Elizabeth, writers Austen or Dickenson...name me TEN famous women in history, alive or dead...
Do it quickly...as quick as you could do for famous man? Pretty difficult to do eh.
Women are often too busy birthing/raising babies or making the ding dang BED to be able to even look up, let alone do anything even remotely historical. Keep the home fires burning, stand behind the man prodding him with the stock prod to DO something memorable! Even religion and laws favour women in the subservient position...be a good wife, do as your man instructs, support and nurture! When we have iron ladies like Margaret Hilda Thatcher, she is more often remembered as a B-dog than a strong willed political figure with a heart and conscience of gold (set of brass ovaries in tow too!).
Benny did you know this:
You my Dear Benny make food preparation FUN, meals at your home are often a celebrated event...and I am sure your wife, family and honoured guests at your table appreciate your generous talents.
Rick knows how to cook (he apprenticed to be a baker), clean and care for himself...his mother made sure he did not end up with a woman because he needed a MOTHER to look after him. HOWEVER...someone here must pick up these chores if the two of us are to exist here. He's not here--gone at 2 am to 4 am most days and home at 6 pm. NOT here and what is here, ain't much of him left in there right now.
No hives for honey, no dairy for milk or cream; things are being toned back in many areas...some can grow like the sheep flock without consquences. When we do get a day together, what goes on here daily by my efforts, is quickly looked after so we can both have a day away with the dogs doing his hobby...driving, smelling the cut forage, viewing the views, listening to tunes, stopping for ice cream and picking up provisions.
YOUNG - I am trying to cut back on my regulated MUST do each day schedule. A dairy must function, on time, day in and out or your females dry up, production drops and you have wasted your efforts to no benefit. Rick is already as patient as he should be...on the weekends he does not work, he will go to town in the morning while I do "chores" and come back and never say a bad thing that "I" have chosen to take up something that occupies my life...hours every day, 365 days a year. On weekends, I prepare for these outings like the Dickens all week...anything extra gets done, things that can be banked like water topped and feeders cleaned, are done during the week when he is not here. Rick's hobby is driving his restored vehicles with me and his dogs. Leisurely loser laps where we may use the excuse to pick up something from the city, or groceries which happily includes a whole host of dairy products from butter to cheese to sour cream, cream, milk, cream cheese and yoghurt that I feed the dogs and I. Dairy products are a huge part of our life but I am not willing to do the huger part of milking dairy animals for it so I can add the tasks of making them too.
I do believe dairy products are subsidized here...so the farmer gets paid to do what he does best. If you were to compare the cost of hay (which I don't put up forage and we have from May to June--TWO months from TEN where ruminants can graze) compared along with the cost of keeping the animals, dairy, refrigeration, etc., the resources used would be huge compared to making a trip to town to buy dairy.
Yes, I found that out yesterday. Thank you. Not exactly health food, eh
Poor Rick came home, he got to meet up with the fella we were going to town to rendezvous with, so I told him, plates & milk could wait. I was saying to him, he could have a much deserved nap and I think he was mid sentence about something about "I can't sleep now" and he was sawing logs. Slept for two hours straight and only woke up because Lacy started loudly complaining that he might sleep thru dog run runs. Which of course, he did not. He even took the pack over to the berry patch for a handful of Saskatoons. Topped his fish pond and the wild bird feeders.
I have three sets of soaker hoses to go out and place. I was hoping
rain would have happened by now but none forecast till maybe Monday and the taters look a tad wilted. That should be a task and a half...years past I have automatically put the hoses out and in some cases, never once used them. I guess this year I am not so lucky, but at least the efforts are not for nothing!Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
