Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

As a microbiologist I am a fairly linear thinker. I am also fairly anal. The thought of jumping in the middle of a book is giving me the heebie geebies just thinking about it.

The thing is that people who think like you are what make up my best friends. I have always sought out people who think differently than me. Mrs BY Bob is such a thinker. Her thought processes always keep me guessing. I love that.

YD thinks like me. As a little kid she had a *pretend friend* ~ a unicorn. I knew about him & for me it was perfectly natural ~ even when they had a row one day & the girl broke of his horn & stabbed him in the heart. End of pretend friend. She had anger management issues. However YD & I were discussing this *friend* & his sad demise in front of OD, who had a complete meltdown. She just could not handle the thinking required to invent an imaginary friend, let alone do away with him. For ages all we had to do was mention this *friend* & the child would melt down. She can't handle how I read books either. It's a good thing the world is not run by people like me.

 

[LozzyR]

I think we are all creatures of habit, Bob ~ it's just which habits. I, for example, rarely read a book from the beginning to the end [a habit that began in childhood & sends my B&W linear thinker into meltdown ]. I begin wherever I find something interesting & then read towards either end fairly randomly. I've done this all my life because for me a book is just like a jigsaw. It doesn't matter what order I acquire the pieces, it will all fit together to create the big picture. History works the same way but I think it is why I have always had so much trouble with math & some science. They are very much linear disciplines: line on line, precept on precept. That gets old very quickly for someone like me. The joke in our house was we had 5 kids because 5 is the only times tables I knew.I'm just glad there are linear thinkers around who invented things like calculators to make a linear world easier to cope with.

I’m glad you didn’t have 5 x 5 kids though!

 

[LozzyR]

Ours are Native Australian Bees & stingless. It helps.

Are they the ones with blue stripes?

 

[Ribh]

Are they the ones with blue stripes?

No. They are completely black.

 

[Ribh]

I’m glad you didn’t have 5 x 5 kids though!

But @ least I could work out what 5 ice-creams were going to cost me!

 

[Ribh]

My girls have a pretty nice run. There is a Ficus, native grasses, 2 iron bark & a Flame tree situated inside the fence. I have put in a couple of logs & when we extend there will be a roost as well but check this out...

They have reduced the height of the back fence by nearly 2'!
That's less than 12 months of leaf litter than has been pushed down hill until they have very nearly leveled out the slope in their run.
You can see where the run extension will go. The girls will have a hay~day when we move the wire but it's no wonder I have problems keeping my girls in!

 

[LozzyR]

No. They are completely black.

We get bees here that have electric blue stripes. They are so cute!

 

[LozzyR]

But @ least I could work out what 5 ice-creams were going to cost me!

 

[Ribh]

We get bees here that have electric blue stripes. They are so cute!

Probably these: https://www.aussiebee.com.au/blue-banded-bee-information.html
They are very pretty. I'm keen to have some of these.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks