Michigan

[M.sue]

Oh we got a good 5" I'd say, it's still blowing around but hubby has cleared off the driveway. Yes I'm wide open, fields on all 4 sides of me. Lovely!!

What joy....me too!! Now I'm off to the barn......have a good day!! lol

 

[1muttsfan]

So I will be joining the ranks of goose keeper in about a month or so! I am wanting these to be friendly pets, so I will be socializing them from day one. Though if ALL six hatch (not likely due to shipping, but possible), anyone here want some goslings? I want to keep three, that seems like a good number

Oh, counting your goslings before they are hatched - watch out or the voodoo egg curse will hit you

No snow here - well a light dusting, doesn't count.

 

[swampducks]

Well, the radar shows it's finally almost out of here, but our possible 2 inches today is already 7! They really fouled up the track of this storm! Glad I don't have to go anywhere today. But Ziggy loves it! Once it stops I'll take out a camera and take photos.

 

[NovaAman]

I just read a news article about a little Alabama girl who was ran to death for eating a candy bar and then lying about it. I don't know if anyone else saw it, but the jist of it is, she, the little girl got a candy bar on the bus on the way home and ate it. She lied to her grandma and step mom about it, so they sent her outside to run laps around the yard. FOR 3 HOURS! No water was given. So, when she finally colapsed from dehydration and started having seizures, 911 was called. Her dad ws over seas working, birth mom in florida. The dad took 8 different flights to get home, and then had to make the hard decision to take her off life support. The step mother and grandmother are being charged with murder.

This may sound evil, but I think their punishment should be being forced to run for 3 hours with no water for as long as it takes till they drop and convulse from dehydration and low sodium. So they can feel the torture they inflicted on this little 9 yr old girl.

I wish I hadn't read this, but I have, and I am so mad. Those women can say all they want that they didn't think that running would kill the little girl... But come on now. How many kids have died practicing football from dehydration? UM, A LOT! Evil witches.

 

[1muttsfan]

Just reserved a dozen frizzle bantam cochin eggs for the Easter hatch

- I think I need an intervention

 

[RaZ]

Just reserved a dozen frizzle bantam cochin eggs for the Easter hatch

- I think I need an intervention

An incubation intervention?

 

[ChicwannaB]

I just read a news article about a little Alabama girl who was ran to death for eating a candy bar and then lying about it. I don't know if anyone else saw it, but the jist of it is, she, the little girl got a candy bar on the bus on the way home and ate it. She lied to her grandma and step mom about it, so they sent her outside to run laps around the yard. FOR 3 HOURS! No water was given. So, when she finally colapsed from dehydration and started having seizures, 911 was called. Her dad ws over seas working, birth mom in florida. The dad took 8 different flights to get home, and then had to make the hard decision to take her off life support. The step mother and grandmother are being charged with murder.

This may sound evil, but I think their punishment should be being forced to run for 3 hours with no water for as long as it takes till they drop and convulse from dehydration and low sodium. So they can feel the torture they inflicted on this little 9 yr old girl.

I wish I hadn't read this, but I have, and I am so mad. Those women can say all they want that they didn't think that running would kill the little girl... But come on now. How many kids have died practicing football from dehydration? UM, A LOT! Evil witches.

I agree with you Nova, too many slaps on the wrist these days for child abusers.

 

[Olive Hill]

I just read a news article about a little Alabama girl who was ran to death for eating a candy bar and then lying about it. I don't know if anyone else saw it, but the jist of it is, she, the little girl got a candy bar on the bus on the way home and ate it. She lied to her grandma and step mom about it, so they sent her outside to run laps around the yard. FOR 3 HOURS! No water was given. So, when she finally colapsed from dehydration and started having seizures, 911 was called. Her dad ws over seas working, birth mom in florida. The dad took 8 different flights to get home, and then had to make the hard decision to take her off life support. The step mother and grandmother are being charged with murder.

This may sound evil, but I think their punishment should be being forced to run for 3 hours with no water for as long as it takes till they drop and convulse from dehydration and low sodium. So they can feel the torture they inflicted on this little 9 yr old girl.

I wish I hadn't read this, but I have, and I am so mad. Those women can say all they want that they didn't think that running would kill the little girl... But come on now. How many kids have died practicing football from dehydration? UM, A LOT! Evil witches.

Oh my goodness! How horrible! That poor little girl.

On the other hand, this is such a hard topic because it's a very slippery slope. This is obviously a very extreme case, but does it set a precedent for legal action against any parent who allows their child to participate in extreme physical activity that results in injury? For instance, we participate in a 5k every year as a family. After the 5k they have other various running events -- sprints, 1 mile run, etc. for kids. Last year it was very hot that morning. 90+ at 7am. We ran the 5k as a family and then came back in, the kids both did the sprints and then my oldest wanted to do the 1 mile run. I let her sign up and off she went. We spread ourselves out along the final stretch to cheer her on as she came in. She runs an 8 minute mile and was pretty much on par that day; she'd taken 2nd in her age division that morning in the 5k. Well, 8 minutes came and went. 9 minutes came and went. 10 minutes came and went. 11 minutes came and we started down the course backwards worrying. Finally here she came up the final hill and we met up with her, joined in beside and asked what was going on. She was cramped up. She'd been hydrating but the extreme heat combined with that being her 5th mile of the morning and it was too much. BUT she wanted to finish. So I jogged along beside her and let her. And then she walked it out. Where's the line? Should I have stopped her? What if something worse than a cramp had happened out on the course? Should we have been held responsible for allowing her to run it? Very slippery judicial slope...

 

[1muttsfan]

Well, I think I am up to 6 dozen eggs - Norwegian Jaerhons, Euskal Oiloas, Frizzle bantam cochins, bantam cochins - and the 25 chicks from Sandhill due in march or april. Umh. And there are stil 22 days before setting...

 

[chickflick]

You didn't force her to run, tho. It was her choice. And you were there to take care of her. Not watch her suffer. They did it out of meanness.