Ribh's D'Coopage

@MaryJanet: This is a better idea of Lavender's torpedo eggs.
She lays a dirty egg too.:he
Beatha's is for comparison ~ & she's such a good girl she rarely dirties her eggs. :)
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@BY Bob: The tables are refurbished wood. I got two ~ one for each end of the lounge. At least people in this house mistook them for paintings when they arrived as flat packs but they are great general purpose tables I don't worry about damaging them the way I do my *nice* one. :lol:
7cm?!? What an egg!
 
@MaryJanet: This is a better idea of Lavender's torpedo eggs.
She lays a dirty egg too.:he
Beatha's is for comparison ~ & she's such a good girl she rarely dirties her eggs. :)
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@BY Bob: The tables are refurbished wood. I got two ~ one for each end of the lounge. At least 2 people in this house mistook them for paintings when they arrived as flat packs but they are great general purpose tables I don't worry about damaging them the way I do my *nice* one. :lol:
I love their character. Very nice.
 
Am I really that blunt?:oops:
I do try not to offend but the cultural differences between certain parts of the USA and my Scottish attitude exacerbated by the Catalonian very blunt style of speech, means as soon as I open my mouth I've upset someone here on BYC it seems. My sense of humour seems to cause some outrage as well.:confused:
The Catalans are even less tactful and polite than the Scotts!

Yes



But seriously Shad, once I got to know you I could tell that your heart was in the right place and you didn't seem so scary. 🥰
 
I am having a little trouble keeping up with everyone just now [@CrazyChookChookLady ~ the photos were wonderful. Thank you. :) ]We are @ the chaotic end of renovations & extended family arrives the day the sanders finish the upstairs flooring so stress levels are a little high round here. Not everything will be completely finished & there will be 2 toddlers in the house so...

Plus my Doctor keeps promising me he's done with cutting bits out ~ then finds something else that needs must get done ~ invariably somewhere that hurts like billy~oh! The last one was on my cheekbone right under my eye on the side I like to sleep on so I'm a cranky old woman just now!:gig

Plus the chickens went visiting the neighbours yesterday because they had spent all day spreading mulch on new garden beds & needed extra help spreading it around! 🙄

Having spent 20 minutes rounding everyone up I nearly stepped on the one chirping @ my feet. I had missed Aoife in the general round up & she had come to see why I wasn't chasing her! As soon as she saw I'd seen her she squatted obligingly & waited to be carted off!

My workers, who pretty much promised to be available once the crabbing season ended are now netting & arrived wet & filthy on the incoming tide, used our shower, ate all the contents of the slow cooker & the stash of chocolate, draped their stinky wet weather gear over the fire guard & their boots on the hearth ~ don't you just love the smell of cooking rubber?! ~ & spliced their ropes on my brand new lounge before sloshing through the mangroves in the semi dark back to their boat, not to be seen again for the next 48 hours. *sigh*

it's not all doom & gloom. the sun still rises, the cats still purr & the chickens are laying. So here's this mornings sunrise...

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1: gorgeous sunrise
2: someone else who doesn’t stare blankly at the term “spliced their ropes”? 😍 that was my second job and what I learned to do as a child from my papa!
3: chickens be crazy, but 2 toddlers trumps that by far

:hugs
 
Good evening folks :frow

Sue had a great day. Shower, hair washed and teeth brushed. she really impressed all of her new therapists. And she dressed herself in real cloths.
Fantastic news Bob! :weeWay to go Sue!

Perhaps you can have a sleep in this weekend to celebrate. We don't want you collapsing too. Neither does Sue I suspect. :hugs
 
I wasn't aware of the differences in bone structure.
We butchered 8 and of those only two were what my DH described as normal (from a butcher’s standpoint). One bone is longer and the angle of the joint is different than in the meat breeds here. There is basically no way to cut through the joint in a straight line. The two bones of the wingette or paddle (not the drumette) didn’t line up at all with the wing tip in most of my birds. At first I thought it was my inexperience, but Andrew did a
Few too and there is definitely a difference in structure from the industry standard meat breeds.
 
We butchered 8 and of those only two were what my DH described as normal (from a butcher’s standpoint). One bone is longer and the angle of the joint is different than in the meat breeds here. There is basically no way to cut through the joint in a straight line. The two bones of the wingette or paddle (not the drumette) didn’t line up at all with the wing tip in most of my birds. At first I thought it was my inexperience, but Andrew did a
Few too and there is definitely a difference in structure from the industry standard meat breeds.
That's very interesting.
'I wonder if there are any comparative anatomy illustrations or photos of this? I'm a very visual learner.
 
They are staying indefinitely while they save for a deposit on their own place. The lad owns a block of land outright but the bank is being difficult about a loan for a house because it's on the island. My son will help ~ but then he's out fishing most of the time... :lau We will work something out. The bonus is the house is pretty big so there's enough room we should all be able to have our own space. Our bedroom is big enough to have it's own study/sitting area & I'm pretty good with small kiddies. So long as someone besides me cooks... ;)
Are houses built on islands more prone to be stolen or something?:D Guess that's the UK in trouble then.:lau
 

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