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Got meself two sets of jewelry to torment the kids with...oh my eyes, eh!
Goodies!
And lotsa presents fer the wee ones...you should see how concerned they were that Valentines is on a Saturday. LOL...Rick insisted I stock up on the kewl goodies for the kiddies...such a Hero, eh!
Sure hope I don't have to drive one of the spare buses tomorrow...
Could be an issue for the kiddies keeping the Valentines presents from falling out...
I did up a series of photos on some more colour genetics (wip). On the weekend, Rick took me to get some more of my silly plastic chooks and FTDucks for the genetics lessons, eh. We found the time to go complete a few of my sets. Rather expensive endeavours...these plastic creatures NEVER seem to go on sale...even got told by the one manager of a store where I got some more ducks and a few hens...since these come outta Europe, they never have enough and never lower the price.
It is running me $120 for just the four sets to do up the chickens...one set in White ($30 for 3 males, 3 females and one set of the chicks to match), one set in Coloured (working on a set of two coloureds so those will end up being $60 once I have both sides of the body shapes acquired), and one set in half White/half Coloured. I have the same in ducks ($60 for the white and coloured--got to complete the coloured ones this time, so yah and thanks Rick for humouring all this silliness!), geese (will be $60 for white & coloured--but coloured is still short the four progeny, so need to purchase two boys, two girls--not like geese are all the different like chooks are in shape)...so it is vividly apparent why you don't see others offering to do up the Punnett Squares in the plastic dinky toys, eh. Chooks, ducks, and the geese are an investment of $240 plus all the hassle of actually finding them. Not every store has like this available supply and on offer so you just fork over the funds. I have been putting off completing my sets simply because I knew a few years ago, that I had drained their poultry stocks...hee hee...imagine that eh?
I thought about turkeys once momentarily but figured...nah... I think I have one white swan that ran me $8 for the one...yeh, you are going to have to use yer imaginations thar with the Swannies, eh! I am still trying to be semi-retired...not completely tired and foolish with the funds on hand!
Eek...oh well...so I am still looking for the four coloured goose progeny, plus a set of the skinnier roo-a-doos too in the coloured ones to go with the skinnier coloured hens I have in more an eggy coloured henny shape compared to a more heritage dual purpose coloured hen shape (pic below of the incomplete set)--oh the banes of chicken mathematics, eh.
They may be lumps of plastic but I thought the price of oil was down...har har! Should mean plastics drop too...hardly!
Coloured chickens
I can hope by posting these to help others...it makes it all worth it. Who knew it would cost so much but oh well... Hundreds of dollars later in landfowl and waterfowl...we have the ability to play with the Punnett Squares...hee hee! Makes the teacher wince but I am sure y'all enjoy the free for all, eh.
Jest gotta find the time now to trim the pics I took on Monday and get them in order and post them here... I decided to use a low resolution camera (Rick's one for his vintage vehicle restoration use) and hope that keeps the photos useable for downloading for the genetics lessons...
It is winter sorta spring like time eh, time for that crap to be done did.
Been enjoying the winter food fests here also...
Meatloaf and scallop potatoes
All that lunch meat that Rick sliced up with the new swanky meat slicer....cheese and crackers...delish!
On the weekend, we also were serious about something besides plastics and we bought a nice strip loin (save three times what it costs for individual streaks eh!) and I used the "trimmings" to make up a decent meaty chili...
Baked a loaf of bread in the bread machine that day (using those modern conveniences of crock pots and bread machines!)
And it has been good feastings fer this week...
Chili and fresh bread so hot it melts the butter...Divine!
And having leftovers...hee hee...how bad could leftovers like these be...
Strip loin steak smothered in pan fried mushrooms, garlic toast from the loaf made the day prior...and another bowl of the beaners...yeh...good stuff.
Yeh...Rick has been putting the tractor, snow bucket and back blade to good use...
Fixins likes the easy swagger a nice cleared pathway is
As I mentioned, she is now limited to using the ramp to get up into & outta the Man Porch...
I don't like her jumping up the stairs...this way she glides up...well OK>>>as glidy as old doggies would be, eh!
Had this one cartoon stored in one of my old laptop files...thought it a good one...
Fixins...you have competition...from the birds even!
Does she look concerned...my goodness, NOT...rude rude rude no manners bow wow!
Patience is a virtue here...eventually, I'll get back her way and toss the toy!
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Originally Posted by drumstick diva
Gotta love Fixins, 'hope eternal', sooner or later somebody has to throw the ball.
I bought the dog next door a blue jolly ball and she went nuts, she spent most of the day slinging it across the yard, didn't even need someone to throw it. She's had it since before Xmas, and I notice half of the ball part is missing but, the handle is still there.
Does Fixins chow down on the ball, or just like to fetch it?
Assortment of Jolly Ball (nfi) products we have here right now.
In their younger days...the ACDs were a real handful to find toys they would not kill...or chew chunks off and swallow and not kill them dogs themselves! ACK!
Yeh...note the condition of the supposedly extreme (sure, sure...not ACD extreme eh) chew resistant tire toy...busted...yeh...the round JB's are suppose to have ropes that run thru them...those don't stay there the better part of a week, eh. LOL
Surprisingly, the two black rubber air brake pods at the bottom thar are very ACD friendly. These can be used like a Frisbee-nfi (holy Toledo...forget using a Frisbee with ACDs...chewed instantly to nothingness and even the dog made ones...har har har...who you fooling with, eh?)...the dogs love them and while they do not get the same distance away as a real Frisbee might...I am just glad not to be having to replace them constantly.
Yeh, this is an older version of the Jolly Ball (nfi) and yes, that's what is left of the handle, JB was de-handled...early on in the play.
Newer JB on the right...older (just a smaller version) one on the left...see the chew on the handle...these are NOT leave alone with ACDs type products...in fact young ACDS should not be left with any dog toy alone...unless you like going off to the vets to have pieces surgically removed and risk losing the pup puppers...
Fixins still grips the JB where and how she always has but she's a GUMMY dog now compared to her younger years
I tried out a hard plastic ball and HyBlade chipped his canine tooth immediately...yeh, the hard plastic might stay intact but the whole point of a dog toy is the fun the dog has...no fun in getting all busted up...I am sure he had bruises too...hits the toys with such exuberance! Silly wuppies.
Silly Foamers...tis play time, not rolly polly time...
Play, play play...
Run, run run!
The handle on the newer version of the Jolly Ball (nfi) is working well
Handle is there but maybe if she was alot younger, maybe not...
Now I have a question for you Diva...
You ever use the Bechdel test for films you see??
You probably watch more films than I do...how are they measuring up to this test?
You are most welcome and I DO hope you get your elusive white!
It has been surprisingly nice as of late...a bit of snow, some temps in the -20C's but relatively decent winter. Not like out East I hear...they are getting the winter we had last year. Yuck...I love snow but even I said UNCLE last winter!
Feb 11, 2015
Uh yeh, my veg garden gate...be a while before I can think about working the soil, but hey, their will be moisture in the dirt, eh! Think positively...
Sunsets are still spectacular as ever...
Just the draw to a peaceful and contented close of another day...another day here in Pear-A-Dice...
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
