The Old Folks Home

[casportpony]

I have a S&W M&P15, not for work, for coyotes!  DH surprised me with it when my position changed and I had to give up the one I had been assigned.

I'm afraid of you, lol. Not really, but I am afraid of my neighbor when he's been drinking and stray dogs are walking down the road.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

 
Oh, sure, if it was one of my co-workers, he'd never hear the end of it.

You are a police officer?  Kewel....

hey I just saw something kind of scary....  San Diego Highway patrol Motorcycle officers are now carrying M16s.....  Not that them having them.... but the "need" for them.

deb

Seriously? Even the ones on motorcycles?

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

one of my Orpington pullets suddenly has a very red comb... Eggs soon maybe!

Right around the corner.

Squatting and then ripping up the nest box.

about a week after the first egg squat. A couple of days after starting to rip up the nest box.

It should be soon but with low light up north it could take a bit longer than normal.

Whenever I have roosters with pullets, they never squat. The only squatters are with bachelorette flocks and still, that's only with DP and calm laying breeds. In my experience, most laying breeds don't squat but run like hell. I'm speaking leghorns, anconas, minorcas, jaers, etc..

Coop progress:

Today was putting in the beams and putting on the roof. Roof felt and shingles will be a finishing touch, so please don't think my birds only will have a raw wooden roof over their heads. The roof was a challenge because I had to take into account the tree limbs which provide the shade and accommodate for them...plus they were rather unyielding when getting up under them to put the structure in place.




Tomorrow begins the sheathing and siding, which is a good thing because in its raw framed state the coop vaguely resembles the Parthenon. Once the siding and windows are in it'll look like a whole 'nother building.

This is a view from the other end of the structure showing the roost loft. It will have a slide out drawer for the PDZ. Don't know why I tiled it as it'll be under the drawer, but I now have no leftover tiles.




I had a little dilemma about what style roof to put on. Ultimately, I'm glad I opted for this one because I can use the beams for hanging waterers and feeders.


The fun stuff today was the Balloon Fiesta's mass ascension, which got off to a late start due to high winds. And due to the weather they all opted to fly very low. Their path led them to Corrales and there were easily a 160 assorted balloons drifting lazily about at various altitudes. A couple landed in the neighborhood. All that floated by me out in the yard waved!
Today was Special Shapes Day and so there was a fire hydrant, Shrek, Mr. Bill, a shark, a chicken, a blue bird, a pink elephant, Yoda, an ice cream cone, and a few others. Really a cool and fun experience to have hot air balloons in every direction you looked. It was like being immersed in them.

Beautiful construction. It looks like it will be there forever.
I love being able to hang food, water, etc..
plan your nest box, pop door and roost location so the chickens don't have to walk under roosts to enter the nests.

I've been missing our favorite cut-up for awhile. It seems like a day without him is more like a month. But, I think he mentioned going camping with family and kid(s)??? unless I am confusing him with someone else. Thought it was just supposed to be a 3 day thing. My mind is so far gone maybe I imagined the whole thing.

Today I was mad the mailman didn't bring the weekly grocery ads. Today is Wednesday which I didn't know. Turns out I got the ads yesterday when they are supposed to arrive and already forgot about it. Oh boy!! I don't want to move to a nursing home.

My memory is pretty weak lately.

Yeah. It's a curse and a blessing. I mean, who wakes up trying to figure out angles? But at least it signals my brain's still working and functioning. I just think it's bizarre to wake up with such thoughts.... Not your normal "What day is it? Where's my coffee?" But to wake up mid math problem. Who does that? (Well, besides Yours Truly)

I used to dream about programming robots.

When my brain goes all demented I'll probably sit in a corner babbling cosigns and tangents....while plotting in my sleep how to dismantle the nursing home's alarm system.

I think my son must do that too. He just showed me his midterm grades at Maryville U. Microeconomics 95, Linear Algebra 100, Statistics 105, Accounting 100. He said 75 was the average grade in accounting. He has a full time and a part time job too. He had an actuarial science career day today.

Well, the Dude may be in jail, so I'll chime in something he might say...."We've had sushi down here for years. We call it bait."

It does sound like a Duderism.
I like it as food or bait.

Every few years, I hear one of these stories.

I had a neighbor that just had to ask, 'What are those things growing over there?" I just about died laughing. "Cut-leaf Japanese Maples - honest!"

They don't understand that some people like to garden for gardening's sake.

Talk about clueless... Okra v. marijuana? All you have to do is look at the flower.

Sounds like some law enforcement need to go remedial with Drug Recognition 101A. What's next, raiding the bakery because the baking soda looks like cocaine? Or the candy shoppe because the rock crystal sugar candy on a stick looks like crack? I hope the okra grower was compensated if they uprooted his garden.
Sheesh.....

In Germany we had a 3' tall plastic marijuana plant used for drug training. We stole it and put it in our apartment to decorate as our Christmas tree.

I see you there.....

Present company excepted.


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On the subject of hot stars.
For you women, how about Pierce Brosnan in "The Thomas Crown Affair".
Johnny Depp in "From Hell".
I just saw those 2 movies in the last 2 days.


I was a big fan of Sophia Loren and Lauren Bacall back in the day, a young Tawny Kitaen, Linda Ronstadt too.

Currently, my short list

Penélope Cruz
Paz Vega
Michelle Pfeiffer
Charlize Theron
Tea Leoni
Catherine Zeta Jones
Meribel Verdu
Cameron Diaz
Sophie Marceau
Andie Macdowell
Eva Green
Ashley Judd

I missed my shot with Goldie Hawn in the early 80s. I was on a ski trip with friends in Aspen. There are 4 mountains there - Ajax (Aspen Mountain), Snowmass, Aspen Highlands and Tiehack (it was called Buttermilk at the time because it was such an easy mountain to ski). All my friends decided to ski Buttermilk for the day. With a bit of arrogance, I thought it was beneath me and I spent my day on Ajax.
It turns out that my friends ended up on the lift and skiing a run with Goldie Hawn. She was very upset because the guy she was skiing with had abandoned her because she was too slow. I was a ski instructor at the time. Perhaps that would have been a good opportunity. For the day at least.

I met and skied with another interesting woman in Aspen a few years later.
http://www.annabellebond.com/
http://www.annabellebond.com/about.htm
She was the first woman to successfully climb the 7 summits (highest mountain on every continent) in a single year. That was after she was an endurance runner, completing high altitude double marathons for 4 consecutive years, finishing second once in under 17 hours. She's also gone to the north pole. Denali was her last climb of the year and they were snowed in several days till finally they decided to break camp. Her team broke trail for a group of US special forces that were climbing behind her. She almost lost some of her toes on that climb.
When I met her she was about to leave her family's Aspen home to get a climbing award in Paraguay, stopping in Uruguay to party and then on to Antarctica. I think she's the most inspirational person I've met.
ETA
So maybe she should be on my short list above too.
Oh, at times, it would be good to be that rich.

 

[Wisher1000]

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[ChickenCanoe]

No, I'm sure you're right. I would have probably just stammered.

 

[hennible]

Wow what a woman

 

[JW12]

Not my favorite caliber... Even a leaf will offset it's trajectory. They should go with some decent 7.62mm rifles if they really need assault rifles. I really liked the Finnish Kalashnikov copies, especially the older ones. The folding stock version of the Sako RK 62 was my favorite. The more modern 95 version was too front heavy for my taste. But I really don't understand why cops would need automatic long range weapons. Surely a regular rifle or a machine pistol would do.

I didn't read debs article yet so it may have been addressed but part of the need for our law enforcement here is they are simply out gunned most of the time. I can think back several years ago (it may have been in California ) a bank robbery was taking place and the robbers had armor on. The police couldn't get close enough to them to pierce their armor because the criminals had bigger weapons and could keep the police pinned down. It was a mess. With the internet you can order just to turn almost anything into an automatic and it is still keeping the police out matched.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: Seriously? Even the ones on motorcycles?

-Kathy

sorry It was an AR 15..... but still



this is a Sheriff pix Now I am not sure if the ones I saw were CHP... and not Sheriff.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I have a Mossberg twelve gauge... two barrels one for hunting one for home protection.... All I know. I bought it for my roommate to feel secure about living alone out in the desert. She used to shoot skeet.... IN a past life.

Its never been fired. Nor Have I ever taken the lock off it.

deb

 

[hennible]

A 22 and a 303 from ww2.... I can't do anything but clean them.... I don't know how to shoot, lol.