The Old Folks Home

[Dragonfly216]

Off to take a shower, and use the special skin cleanser they gave me at the hospital, then I'll be going to surgery. 

Good luck, getaclue! Prayers for a speedy recovery and that this is all they have to do!

Happy birthday Mrs. OZ! I hope it is an excellent one! We would love to say hey to ya one day!

LOVE the photos, ChickenCanoe! Wow, what a view! That bungalow looks amazing. I too love the photo of the dogs. I really want to look thru all the fruits at the market!

TSF09, I believe those are probably some of the best photos!

Ok so my sweet babies from Wisher aren't so baby like anymore! They turned four weeks old yesterday and I still can't believe how big they are! Since it's warmer, I'm going to move them to the covered, screened in porch this evening. I made a collage of them from two days old till this morning, wanna see?I knew you would!

 

[Arielle]

@ wisher

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I chuckle every time I look at those sleeping dogs.
Let sleeping dogs lie.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I really want to look thru all the fruits at the market!


Ok so my sweet babies from Wisher aren't so baby like anymore! They turned four weeks old yesterday and I still can't believe how big they are! Since it's warmer, I'm going to move them to the coveted, screened in porch this evening. I made a collage of them from two days old till this morning, wanna see?I you would!

Cute. At 4 weeks in Alabama, I'd say they're ready to be outside. I had 4 week olds out last night at about 55 F. I'll have to give them some heat by Monday, it's supposed to get down to freezing.

I'm about a jealous about the fresh fruit as anything. Well, I'd sure like to be snorkeling too.

 

[ronott1]

Good luck, getaclue! Prayers for a speedy recovery and that this is all they have to do!

Happy birthday Mrs. OZ! I hope it is an excellent one! We would love to say hey to ya one day!

LOVE the photos, ChickenCanoe! Wow, what a view! That bungalow looks amazing. I too love the photo of the dogs. I really want to look thru all the fruits at the market!

TSF09, I believe those are probably some of the best photos!

Ok so my sweet babies from Wisher aren't so baby like anymore! They turned four weeks old yesterday and I still can't believe how big they are! Since it's warmer, I'm going to move them to the covered, screened in porch this evening. I made a collage of them from two days old till this morning, wanna see?I knew you would!

they look very nice!

 

[Pozees]

Dragonfly, don't you love the nosy ones? I get a kick out of the chicks that crane their little skinny necks trying to see what the heck you're doing

 

[CanuckBock]

Here ya go, I'll save you the trouble. I can't wait to see the look on DHs face when the fruit shows up. I planted them by the back door!

So like this is sheer torture you guys...EGG shaped tomatoes (I am thinking of the PLUM variety...used mostly to make tomato paste perhaps...more meaty)...now I will be looking for variants to be like chook eggs...sure we got the GREEN eggs (to serve with green hams!)...now the kinda WHITE coloured eggy ones...next will have to see BLUE, PURPLY/PLUM...and yes, my favorites...the BROWN tomatoes to mirror image all the chook eggs we can imagine...all in time for pre-EASTER celebrations.

I can just hear me calling Glenn Drowns of Sand Hill and asking of his 100's of tomato varieties, "Hey Glenn...got any BROWN tomatoes shaped like chicken eggs?" Wink, wink, nudge, nudge!

did someone say pictures??


Our thriving local tomatoes





The new piggery is almost complete with nice big stalls




Plumeria/Frangipani/Kalichoochi are every where in our yard. Mrs Oz collected from Indonesia, Thailand, Fiji, Australia, Hawaii and every color she can find on our
island








The end of a busy day on CocoBeach

LUV the new pig palace...pretty pigs with an even prettier functional palace!


Adore Mrs. Oz's choice of flowers...is the ongoing similarity all have five petals with yellow centers then? Most beautiful indeed!

As always, always...thanks for sharing your "bird's eye views."

Love your day's end--yet another Day in Paradise...


I have always loved this song below...there are times in my life all these things have happened and thru it all, our family has grinned and laughed and loved and shared...I wish a life with maybe a bit less of the bads with more of the goods--but goods are always easy to take...it is when the bads are about, when the times get down and dirty...that is when it matters that you can give a hug, get a hug and GRIN in the face of adversity. It is way easy to love and be loved when things are going well and good...but can you still love each other in the hard times...not blame each other and run away because it is gonna take effort to fix what ain't right? It is easy to drop your end of the bargain, go look for someone new, that you know nothing about...but it means something to stick it thru...to work it on out, because it is an investment in tried and true TRUST...investment of time and resources to be that old couple, that always was and always will be...forever and ever.

The people who will still love you even though they know you the best and when I say "know you" I mean not just the admirable things, but the send you to jail things, your faults and flaws...you at your worse. The friends and family that like you for you, even in your darkest hours. The people that you can call on at any time to help "bury that body!"

Tell a joke and bring a smile and the horror just washes away...Take THAT evil...Get thee hence...we are too strong and too happy to let you down us...

Phil Vassar – Just Another Day In Paradise:

Canuckbok, I finally found a couple of my aerial photos of raised garden beds.




Finally heard from the wife and daughter.

Anyone ever see the movie, Bridge Over the River Kwai? That's where they're staying.





Wife bathing an elephant and waving



Daughter's selfie with her friend Songkran



~ 3 week old baby found on the street, aka mom's new favorite child

Thank you for the way up, up, up photo of your raised beds (How was the air up thar, eh?)...have to see about digging out some of my photos on the raised garden beds I use to have too...have to scan them to post...see if I can do this before the Fall hits...bwa ha ha... I make my raised beds outta dirt...like it so much when I bought my tiller, I bought what they call the "furorow" attachment...big v shaped implement you drag behind that hills the earth up. I like to rotate crops and the pathways...dogs are allowed in the garden, but they must be decent about following along the pathways. Dogs are just part of gardening...to steal carrots, harvest the peas I plant on the outside fence...dog peas...very important to make allowances for garden dogs too. LMBO


YES, heard of the "Bridge Over the River Kwai" and even watched the movie...and what a great movie it was...worth watching again too sometime, eh?


So like who goes on holiday and helps out misfortunate elephants...yer family so ROCKS!

Be glad the wife likes puppies...that maternal instinct...and not "let's have another BABY and see how old we can feel then"...bwa ha ha...puppies are good...puppies are good--thinking puppies are GOOD! LMBO


And....now I know where your daughter gets her beautiful looks and fun/sunny outlook on life. Look at the sunglasses, how the hair is tied up...yeh...now we know, eh?


Yer the Dad of the house... and while that saying goes, "If Momma's happy--everyone's happy..." It takes an awesome Dad to make sure that Momma can provide the setting so Momma CAN be happy. Looks good on you CC.

So well done DAD & keep those home fires burning, eh?

I do hope that Mrs. OZ has a real nice Birthday!
is that the right number of candles?

Scott

Shame on you Scott...you never ask a woman's age...not ever...shame!

And like you better realize us females have a way all our own to tally up numerical things...thirteen candles...could be one candle for every three years, or even five...but never EVER ask the age of the B-Day woman.

And like she's too old to, what...READ small print...Bwa ha ha....dog house for you today and no cake either! LMBO

that would be her perogative to disclose. i am smarter than that

she never posts but she will bring you guys up at meal times

Hmm...Mrs. Oz never posts...but she "will bring you guys up at meal times???" How about she keeps her meals DOWN...what exactly ARE the topics at meal times where Mrs. OZ can't keep her food down?

Who's doing the cooking and what EXACTLY is she eating that she can't keep her food in her belly?

We could all often do with a bit less at meal time and be what's that saying...never be too rich or too thin...??? How about tonight during the birthday celebrations, y'all don't talk about the Folks at the Home and let Mrs. Oz enjoy a real nice quiet meal without getting sickened...

Second coop at Thistle Dew Ranch is well on its way to completion.

LOVE the newest coop...love your colour choice...very soothing, very peaceful and happy. Excellent job!

Did I see the words "Golden Acres?". that used to be my kennel name when I raised and showed Cockers many, many years ago. We had a 35 ft.lot in the city and black or red Cockers so not really reflective of the name.

Ha ha ha...yes, we are all getting old enough to be "put out to pasture" (acres) in our old (golden) years!

Too funny you had Cockers with a kennel name like that...very fitting though.

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It could be worse...I coulda used the Springfield Retirement CASTLE where Abraham Jay-Jedediah Simpson II, aka "Grifty McGrift," "Grampa Simpson," or the "Love Tester" now resides.

Island market and bars

Yes, the all growed up family of flaked out dogs is my fav photo too!

It's a DOG's life, we should be so lucky to be able to sleep 18 hours a day!

Oh, I agree! It would make a delightful children's book! But not an adult picture book, that is something different, entirely different...........

Oh you guys...such enablers... Such naughty enablers....coffee books...unless it's on Kindle (nfi), who past people like moi buys books now?

About 20 years ago, we had the opportunity to hang out with a group called the "Oldtime Fiddlers!" We would attend their functions and just loved the toe tapping tunes and of course, all the characters, the old esteemed characters.

We went to one function, annual event at a lake...well I never...laughed so hard. We got to listen to them play and some of them had a few drinks (that's my excuse for them anyway...sticking to it)...feeling their oats and ignoring their ages.

Next thing I know, I am standing by the docks on the lake and what runs past me but this "needs an ironing" old guy...nothing on but his B-Day suit and this steak of PINK pops into the lake. Ha ha ha...then I overhear some of the ladies, the mature older women talking...gossiping about the one lady they both hated...the one was right wild about the lady stealing her "boyfriend" and exclaimed---"So and so...just makes me so mad! Such a Hussy!" The lady she is talking to replies, "Yes, So and so is such a MATRESS!" Well I never...never heard such a hilarious put down in my life.

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I really had visions of the older folks being well mannered and such...but often the reality is when we get older, sometimes we act worse than we did in our younger days. WE can do whatever WE want (so long as it is not illegal & we are dumb enough to get caught at it)...whenever WE want...not like we got parents to oversee and keep us in check...so if we wanna buy all the candy at the candy store...who's gonna say NO (past our guts will ache)! LOL

Something the younger folk should know...like what BINGO actually stands for...and why we go out on Friday nights to BINGO...yes, BINGO! <<<smirk!!>>>


OK and one photo from today...backing the bus in...I see Krusty in the front yard...he's in under the bird feeder (fence around it this winter to keep the local deer from tossing seeds out on the ground)...Hmm....what is he up to...?????

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I ask you here & now--seed or bug...bug or seed...I say SEED BEAK....yes?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs OZ!!!!!!

 

[Dragonfly216]

Quote: Thank you! I'm enjoying them so much! Great! I honestly mentioned here about putting them on the porch so yall could tell the newbie that it was too soon, if it was

I thought it would be ok, they will still be in the brooder, with a lamp, and I'm going to put them so they can get afternoon sun, and shade off half of it so they can escape if they want to.

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Thank you! They are so very healthy! Growing like crazy!

Dragonfly, don't you love the nosy ones? I get a kick out of the chicks that crane their little skinny necks trying to see what the heck you're doing

I do!!! It's so funny! And i have a feeling, that the same ones in my photos are the same ones who were originally craning their neck to see. I'll have to do some side-by-side collages of the two day old and the 4 weeks old

I found that I could snap my fingers and make almost all of them look in one direction, lol!

 

[ozexpat]

@CanuckBock Our worlds are very different, but the beauty of this planet never ceases to amaze me.

For newcomers, Mrs Oz an I are balancing on either side of the Big 5-0. We have been married for 19 years 208 days and remain best friends. Since April 2010 we have been living apart to adopt our kids. We see each other for for about 60 days a year for periods of between 48 hrs and 10 days. Between us we have racked up more than half a million flight miles since the adoptions began.

She is from a rather privileged background but does what it takes - including wrestling pigs to give vaccinations. She has two BS degrees in Political Science and Economics, a Masters in Nursing as a Nurse Practicioner and is completing her dissertation for her PhD in Psychology.

She has more than 400 SCUBA dives logged. We have dove The Red Sea, Bahamas, Hawaii, Cancun, West Palm Beach, Cozumel, Florida Keys, The Great Barrier Reef, Southern California and many locations in The Philippines.

She has ridden African and Indian Elephants, been inches from giant Manta Rays, and feet Bull and Tiger Sharks in cageless dives, She bungee jumped off The Zambeze River bridge at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and used a 4WD camper to traverse Mozambique to dip our toes in The Indian Ocean

During her undergrad years she lived with the NPA Communust rebels to understand their plight, She chased jungle fowl with the Ifagao aborigines, and lived in the slums of Manila for the same reasons.

On our first date, before we got our first drink she informed me that if I was looking for a subservient Asian bride, I asked the wrong woman out. She said she does not cook nor clean bathrooms. That if this relationship progressed then I should make more money than her and should we get married she expects a 2 karat diamond engagement ring. Fortunately I love to cook, I outsourced the cleaning and worked my but off to meet salary and engagement ring needs.

Mrs Oz spent her birthday without me. With the sudden change in staff at CocoBeach Farm, she spent the first part of her birthday locking down 200 eggs in a hatcher, giving instructions on construction to workers and still found time to relay about 70 photos to give me a picture report of the farm's progress.

She lurks in BYC because she enjoys following along. She loves that I am passionate about CocoBeach. I doubt she will ever drop in though. Despite her generally adventurous spirit, she remains shy