The Kitchen Table - come sit with us! new request added to post 1!

[English Chick]

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orpie .. your violin playing is music to my ears! ... now I must take up my piano practice again.... duet?

It will be difficult to play the piano with a glass of wine, and you'd need one to listen to my violin playing. I'd be better at a piano duet -- 4 hands on one piano. wonder how hard it would be to pull that off?

See I have to teach you a few things... when playing the piano and wanting to sip wine... you have a very long straw from the wine glass... then you can use both hands... see.. easy peasy .... (_)

 

[debilorrah]

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It will be difficult to play the piano with a glass of wine, and you'd need one to listen to my violin playing. I'd be better at a piano duet -- 4 hands on one piano. wonder how hard it would be to pull that off?

See I have to teach you a few things... when playing the piano and wanting to sip wine... you have a very long straw from the wine glass... then you can use both hands... see.. easy peasy .... (_)

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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It will be difficult to play the piano with a glass of wine, and you'd need one to listen to my violin playing. I'd be better at a piano duet -- 4 hands on one piano. wonder how hard it would be to pull that off?

See I have to teach you a few things... when playing the piano and wanting to sip wine... you have a very long straw from the wine glass... then you can use both hands... see.. easy peasy .... (_)

eta - we most respectfully request that YRH answer the note on the Kitchen Table for today. Please?

 

[English Chick]

opppssss 5.38am... I have been up since 3am.. I must get back to bed.. got a long day ahead visitng the Wernlas Collection..... biggest collection of rare breed chickens in the UK!!) woot woot woot!... just hope my legs keep up my daughter walks at a face pace and these days I am a snail!....

I will call in again to let you know how it went and making mental note to take my camera...

Been a pleasure to see y'all once again. it wont be the ast time

everyone.....



ps Good thread Orpie! ... luvs ya friend xx

 

[OrpingtonManor]

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great to see you, EC! get some sleep!

 

[Noncentzter]

"Have you ever held an unconventional job? What was it? Why did you like it?"

While attending college in ND, I worked on a potato farm. I had different duties: sorting/tossing out the rotten potatoes and bagging the bakers. Sorting the potatoes was fast work and kept you busy. Bagging the bakers was slow. The one I hated most was trying to load those 100lb bags of potatoes on railroad cars...I wasn't strong enough or tall enough to get up to the rafters! Only did it for one winter...that was enough for me!

 

[ibpboo]

"Have you ever held an unconventional job? What was it? Why did you like it?"

Not really. But, I used to babysit all my friend's kids.
For a couple years I worked the greeting cards section at a retail store. That was cool, keeping the cards stocked, worked my own hours pretty much. Holidays were busy.

Other than that, I mostly worked retail, now I work at the school, I'm the lunch lady!

The water sample i took from my well came back negative for bacteria. The tank just has coliform bacteria, which is just an indicator that bacteria could enter. Both areas have been disinfected, and another sample will be taken in on Monday.​

 

[Jena]

HI Orp,

I have only been back online for a day or so, just found you now. Pati told me you had set up a new thread.

"Have you ever held an unconventional job? What was it? Why did you like it?"

I have had many jobs, I worked in offices in finance for about 30 years, doing accounts and Credit Control, at the same time I usually had other jobs working in pubs and restaurants, then in 1992 I had an acident and burnt my arm badly, so I was out of work for a while undergoing treatment, then I changed direction and became an auxilliary nurse in a Nursing Home at night while studying during the day.

From that time all of my jobs have been very different. I studied and got a 2.1 in English and History, went on to do a Post Graduate qualification in teaching and taught Archaeology and English to speakers of other languages.

As a result of this and my nursing experience I then became a Health Advocate for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, and did that for 6 years. Then I did some research into Mental Health, and now I am self employed.

I have found good reasons for doing all my jobs, and even today I do my own and my son's small business accounts and love playing with numbers.

Nursing was a great opportunity to relate to people and to pay back to the older generation for the love and care they had lavished on us as children.

In Advocacy I learned a great deal about the world and the people who live here, I was able to help people, and to become Auntie to some fabulous young people. I learned about judgements that can be made so easily and I learned not to be a fool so quickly.

So all of my jobs have been interesting and "right for their time"

Nice thread friend.

 

[turney31]

I worked for the Texas Dept of Corrections as a prison guard. I was a Field Boss. This was a job where I rode a horse, Wore a pistol and worked a squad of 30+ offenders. Our duties consisted of All aspects of the prison garden, underbrushing,and flat weeding. It is said that when someone on the unit calls 911 It rings in the Field Office, A very TOUGH group of officers, Quick to respond, the GO TO people. I am very Proud to have been a member of this elite group!

I quit the prison when I was hired as a Ranch Manager on a 13,000 acre working cattle ranch. Cow/calf operation. My DH worked part time on the ranch. I was responsible for feeding,calving,working cows and calves then there was fencing,mowing and hay hauling.........................

I am still tired! My husbands primary job was Dog SGT, Training tracking dogs to chase escaped offenders. This required him to be within 30 mins. of the unit. After my children all flew the coop, our need for the larger house on the ranch changed and another worker needed the space for his 5 children. Our operations manager asked us to move to a smaller house on the other side of the ranch. That was o.k. except that it put my DH 1 hour from his job. His Warden said that would make his response time to long in case of escape. So our decision was to quit the ranch and move to DH's prison state housing. 13,000 acre ranch to an apt! I have just about lost my mind.

I then ran a small home daycare for 3 years.

We have in the last 6 mos. bought a trailer house and two and a half acres. I now have my sanity back! DH has retired and we are hanging out on our little EL Rancho Not So Grande Appropriately named " Swampy Duece".

God is good, we are so blessed!

Thank you for asking,

Micah

 

[ranchhand]

Micah, our little ole 1.64 acres is called El Rancho Pequeno - these days I call it Azalea Ranch, because these folks in the east can't understand the first one!

Steff, does putting on a show twice a day of feeding gators up close and personal count as unconventional?