The Front Porch Swing

[LeslieDJoyce]

the chick on LeslieDJoyce

That's an Easter Egger. I named her Cheeks. I've got several EEs, and most of them are bearded ... Cheeks had the biggest beard of all the chicks. I couldn't resist her when I saw her in the bin at the feed store. All the EEs are different colors.

 

[Triple Willow]

I'll take one order of "want not", please.

Do you want baked beans and slaw with that?lol

 

[Triple Willow]

OH MY GAWD.... I thought you were joking.....

deb

^^ hahaha ^^

 

[Triple Willow]

Do any of you guys sell anything besides eggs, like pickled eggs?

 

[Beekissed]

It's a beautiful day that the Lord has made, folks! I hope everyone has a blessed and beautiful day out there!

The sun is shining and I hope to get more of the garden planted, more tilled and hilled, and a bachelor pen built for this magnificent rooster. If I can get that done, maybe I'll still feel like raking some of the yard...but maybe not. The old Arthur is really kicking my buttocks this spring..I'm just too young to feel this old.

Still have a last straggler in the egg...but a defiant little claw is sticking out! I hope he can manage to open that door today and we can be done with this experiment once and for all. So hard to resist helping her....

 

[bruceha2000]

They taste like - Drum roll, please - chicken!

Beat me to it Blooie - that was my first thought!

Okay...guess I have to conduct an anatomy class....country style.

Other than humans, most male mammals have a penis bone and old coon hunters used to cut those out of their boar coons and compare the sizes...sort of like a competition for the biggest, baddest boar coon. Anyhoo, they would often drill a hole in the base of a particularly large specimen, wear it on their watch chain, sharpen down the tip and use it as a toothpick~sort of a silent, but quite evident, bragging.

I wonder if that has something to do with the naming of: The Arkansas toothpick is a heavy dagger with a 12–20-inch (30–51 cm) pointed, straight blade. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick) because I also had to look it up. Didn't find Bee's definition though! When I added "raccoon" to the search, I found this page http://www.luckymojo.com/raccoonpenis.html (and they are selling them!!) with additional names, among them: "Texas toothpick," "mountain man toothpick" but NO mention of Arkansas toothpick.

More things we now know but don't need to

I'm a virtual fount of useless knowledge.

The son of a friend once said that I know a lot of things no one needs to know. She said it was a complement ??

Figures

I swear I forget more than I learn lately, not sure why.

Old age! Of course I have no idea how old you are. I was skype type chatting (for some reason video isn't working for her any more

) with my younger daughter earlier this week and said I couldn't remember something I was going to ask her, must be I am getting old. She said she forgets stuff so she must be old too (she is 18). I said if she is old, I am ANCIENT!

I will stick to my Pencil.... ahem.
.
deb

Hmmm
- Arkansas tooth pick
- pencil
- lead in the pencil
Sorry brain went "south" with the word association.

the chick on LeslieDJoyce

Zinnia

You can click the "quote" button on the bottom of a message so you don't have to explain which post you are referencing (but remove unrelated parts so it is easy for us to follow. As you can see, this is a VERY active thread and takes long enough to read through as it is!).
If you want to reply to more than one, hit the multi button on all but one and the quote button on the last. Saves having a lot of posts.

And, if you don't mind, put your location in your profile. "We" like to know where people are from and if you ever post a question or answer about something where weather might make a difference, people won't have to ask.

Bruce

 

[Beekissed]

Beat me to it Blooie - that was my first thought!

I wonder if that has something to do with the naming of: The Arkansas toothpick is a heavy dagger with a 12–20-inch (30–51 cm) pointed, straight blade. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_toothpick) because I also had to look it up. Didn't find Bee's definition though! When I added "raccoon" to the search, I found this page http://www.luckymojo.com/raccoonpenis.html (and they are selling them!!) with additional names, among them: "Texas toothpick," "mountain man toothpick" but NO mention of Arkansas toothpick.

More things we now know but don't need to

The son of a friend once said that I know a lot of things no one needs to know. She said it was a complement ??

Old age! Of course I have no idea how old you are. I was skype type chatting (for some reason video isn't working for her any more

) with my younger daughter earlier this week and said I couldn't remember something I was going to ask her, must be I am getting old. She said she forgets stuff so she must be old too (she is 18). I said if she is old, I am ANCIENT!

Hmmm
- Arkansas tooth pick
- pencil
- lead in the pencil
Sorry brain went "south" with the word association.

Zinnia

You can click the "quote" button on the bottom of a message so you don't have to explain which post you are referencing (but remove unrelated parts so it is easy for us to follow. As you can see, this is a VERY active thread and takes long enough to read through as it is!).
If you want to reply to more than one, hit the multi button on all but one and the quote button on the last. Saves having a lot of posts.

And, if you don't mind, put your location in your profile. "We" like to know where people are from and if you ever post a question or answer about something where weather might make a difference, people won't have to ask.

Bruce

Here ya go.....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=arkansas toothpick

https://www.etsy.com/listing/78839795/real-animal-bone-taxidermy-weird-craft

http://www.taxidermy.net/forums/BeginnersArticles/04/b/04233E3318.html

They call 'em something different in the UK...

http://forums.ukcdogs.com/printthread.php?s=8ba497e2e9067081f43f017c87d25ad5&threadid=928255422



Funny, the things we talk about on this Porch.

 

[bruceha2000]

"Age" related question. As I said in my last post, I was Skype type chatting with my daughter. I answered a question with:
OK

She asked "why the caps". I said OK is always caps, otherwise you can type it out Okay (first word in sentence or okay otherwise).
She said the caps make it "sound" angry and I should just type "ok".
So I told her I am OLD and OK is always in caps (then used it later, in caps without thinking about it because it is ALWAYS caps

)
She said I'm not old, just middle aged.

So, am *I* nuts and OK is mad as in OKAY, OKAY!!!!! or is there some age "break" where OK in caps is just a generational thing??

For reference I am 58, merely middle age assuming I live to 88 or longer. My wife's definition of middle age is the middle third of your life which, by any measure, means I AM close to OLD(!) if not there already having no idea how long I will actually live. My mother died a few months shy of 75 (due to complications from an RA drug and the flu, before her time), her sister died last year at 92, my Dad turned 85 last year, his dad died a few weeks shy of 96. I have quite a range to "choose" from, unfortunate interactions with buses not included.

I think there is some way to make a poll but I don't know how.

Bruce

 

[Triple Willow]

@Bruce... I figure if 58 is middle-aged that means you will live to be about 116. lol

 

[bruceha2000]

I have changed a bit since Bruce saw me last year. I hope he isn't too shocked.

It is what is inside that counts

I hope that something is found to "fix" you up because I know you are NOT a sedentary person by choice and it is very frustrating for you.

Lack of the ability to be active can be self perpetuating. Janet (my wife) decided to get a part time job last fall. She was laid off from her half time engineering job in 2006 and has stayed home since, partly because that is the same time frame when Rebekah's disabling headache started. The "5 hours a day, one day a week" job at the P.O. became a "2 to 6 days a week, 2 to 9 hours a day" job at 3 different POs in short time. Between yesterday and this coming Thursday she's working five 6:45 to 5 days plus her usual 6:45 to noon today. First time the Post Master at that PO has had a vacation in a year because there was no one to cover.

She came down the stairs pretty briskly last night. Given she has had RA for 13 years and can walk only because of Enbrel, it was pretty surprising. Her comment: "I feel better than I have in years". Seems the activity (*) plus walks when the PO is closed at lunch time and NO time to snack vs being mostly parked in front of the computer following ice skating forums, doing the skating club's treasurer job and playing on Neopets, with too easy access to the M&Ms, for the last 7+ years has helped her lose 30 pounds and get a lot of range of motion back in her shoulders. Her biggest "problem" is the pants and belts have had to be replaced and the new ones are almost the wrong size already. And that is NOT a problem!

(*) if any of you have "chicken arms" sorting mail and filling PO boxes is REALLY good for the biceps and triceps muscles.

Bruce