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Well aren't you all sweetness DD!
Of course we are having a conversation...a coffee (or tea, or whatever) in front of the 'puter...having a sit by and chat it up...we sure ARE!
I've been a huge fan of e-mail and forums for a long time. The text (and photos...oh the fun with pictures we may have!) sits there and waits on us. If we are busy, no matter...we can always catch up (or skip it if its overwhelming to do so...take up at the latest post and go forward from there)...it sits and waits for the moment when you can flop in from of the (sometimes brain sucking and time gobbling) device to socialize at our conveniences. Unlike the telephone which requires immediate attentions but one can always ignore even the demands of a phone...so voice mail or an answering machine can pick up if you are in the midst of something. Like visitors in person...I remember someone coming by a half hour early than they said they were going to be...there I was, a needle and syringe clamped in my mouth...hopping the corral fence to give the sheep a deworming dose because, well...I still had half an hour before I had to quit and sit...sometimes I HATE having to sit...to entertain people. Nothing mean or nasty meant by it--it is nice to have visitors but not too many--not too many back to back, eh? Just sometimes you can get SO much done in that hour or so that needs doing...but then always something needs doing I suppose. The whole point is never to be bored...not bored...too tired to do any more, tad bit hungry, slightly distracted some daze...Maybe...but never EVER bored or lacking purpose! LOL
It is nice that you enjoy the postings and they give you comfort. All this is about having FUN! Fun is to be just that...entertainment that is enjoyable.
I find great joy and companionship in forums of similar interests. I don't have to explain why I am infatuated with birds and the life style one leads doing that. For anyone that don't quite "get it"...well what in tarnation is that person doing on a poultry list? Try walking out your place and having conversations with the neighbours or the supposed "normals" in society! Bizarre at best is the response. So you shut your pie hole and make like you are somewhat sane...as per society as a whole's definition is of that!
Here's an instance near, dear and relevant to the fall time for us...I can just hear Normal Joe or Jane saying it...
"You spend your time finding good sources for straw and you then spend money, time, energy, burn up commodities like the life expectancy of the Boo truck and the big trailer...use up resources hauling it all home...only to lavish it upon beings that soil it up...then you again exert resources to haul it out and to your pasture to till it in, seed it, and have other critters EAT the wealth of growth that bursts forth from the composting of it?"
What I guess I am saying, is there is probably not a similar mindset round my area for 500 miles or more that would even begin to get one second of my past few weeks of amusements. The part that I choose to enjoy doing all this would be even more foreign to them.
"You LIKE doing this?"
YEH...I do!
"You must be making lots of money then?"
None...I cannot claim one red cent of it as it is deemed all to be "no expectation of profit," so it is ALL a hobby...a hobby farm in the worst way."
"You wouldn't rather be on a sandy beach some place soaking up the sun and drinking umbrella beverages instead?"
NOPE...don't do any more than a day trip or two every once in a while and usually to bring back provisions to keep the place running along smoothly...
"You like living there...you never want to be away from there?"
YUP...always here...never gone. It would be perfection to never have to step outside the perimeters of the property.
"Are you insane?"
Excessively happy, verging upon insanity...Sure when I see what normal in society is suppose to be...no sense of purpose or fulfillment, chronic unhappiness, substance induced states of dementia coupled with addictions...laziness, slothful existences leading to poor health in body & soul...unwarranted sense of self-entitlement...thinking you are somehow special and yet not working to deserve any special treatment...self absorbed, vain, superficial--it is all about ME attitudes with no thought to anyone else's feelings or needs besides their own, nobody else matters...instant gratification, never having to work hard at something to succeed...never failing and taking that in stride because they never put themselves out there to even try to help themselves or make improvements...pushing yourself harder because it is worth it...adding more positives in the world because you happen to have existed...more givers, less takers!...never being satisfied with what you have & always wanting more of the things you do not deserve...never making the most of the people that you have chosen to have around you...enjoying the simple things in life...in just living and enjoying that freedom to have friends & family, in simple must do things like eat, sleep, work, play; make improvements to strive to be better. There is so much good in humans and we so often choose to be bad...free will and we blame our shortcomings on everyone and everything but the one that makes the choices. Life gives you lemons, be the one to invent the best dang lemonade ever!
Yes...mind gone to mush! I act funny too...I speak dog, chicken, duck...turkey and several other species of poultry lingo...I am often heard speaking out loud to myself and answering too...I prefer the company of dogs over most humans...I like to get dirty so I can get clean, break a sweat, eat things I have had a hand in growing or making, understand that failing means I pushed the limit but found the boundaries to abide by...find extreme joy in a silly chook that might not amuse anyone else but me. YES...I am crazy and I would rather you not let me know that by making me aware of how others exist. Happy with the skin I am in and the place that I be...now scoot along some place else and see if you can stir the pot there. I got important things to do and you are distracting me from that purpose. Good day...
Was that enough conversation to fit the bill fer today...jest another day here in Pear-a-Dice perhaps?
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
