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[chickadoodles]

Congrats Wisher on your hatch!


Scg I always charged my toms if they acted stupid twards me. I never let them make me back up. If they stompped or tried to see if they could make me back up, I charged at them yelling at them! They only did it once!

 

[chickadoodles]

I sure wish I still could drive!

 

[chickisoup]

Happy Sunday everyone!!!

@Latestarter

what a great blessing if it all works out!!! Maybe that will happen to us too.

@superchemicalgirl I love your goatie girl. Still trying to talk my DH into getting a couple minis. Have a funny story about toms for you. My neighbor was given two beautiful heritage breed toms. They wandered happily around the yard all day with the rest of her small menagerie until one day some of our rather large local population of wild turkeys started visiting for the free food. The toms would sometimes wander off with them for a bit but return home before dark. One day last summer they wandered off but didn't return. Our neighbor was over here the other day visiting but before she left, still hoping her toms are out there somewhere, asked us if we see her birds please let her know. Just later the same day we had a huge flock of hens decided to visit our birdfeeder and in the flock was one young hen that looks half like her flock mates and the other half the coloring of the missing toms.

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

This one hit me below the belt...so good place to post this...frustration at how unreal the world is getting...

Them new whippersnappers they hire fur their looks...can't even tie shoelaces proper AND they were hired to WORK IN A SHOE STORE!

These are my latest dog showing booties to add to my collection...I looked at them and yeh...wouldn't yah know it...

Yeh, I left one as found and tied the t'other one proper...
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Absolutely blows 'cause I know if you asked them...which one is correct, it'd be the one they tied--cause, yeh, they DO know it all...nothing left to learn.

I am totally used to young persons with zero upbringing with the NO manners; unable to properly hold a fork, feed their own faces with dignity, no please, thank you or pardon me...but they can't even tie a shoe...I REPEAT...the workforce can't even tie a shoe up decently AND they work in a ding dang shoe store.

I guess there IS a reason for Velcro (nfi) past using it to tye us up in our wheelchairs so we don't fall down go BOOM, eh?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Happy Sunday everyone!!!

@Latestarter

what a great blessing if it all works out!!! Maybe that will happen to us too.

@superchemicalgirl I love your goatie girl. Still trying to talk my DH into getting a couple minis. Have a funny story about toms for you. My neighbor was given two beautiful heritage breed toms. They wandered happily around the yard all day with the rest of her small menagerie until one day some of our rather large local population of wild turkeys started visiting for the free food. The toms would sometimes wander off with them for a bit but return home before dark. One day last summer they wandered off but didn't return. Our neighbor was over here the other day visiting but before she left, still hoping her toms are out there somewhere, asked us if we see her birds please let her know. Just later the same day we had a huge flock of hens decided to visit our birdfeeder and in the flock was one young hen that looks half like her flock mates and the other half the coloring of the missing toms.

We attract a lot of wild turkeys here due to the noise. I'm glad the toms can't get out... I don't need half the central maine population becoming blue slate! We have had a couple wild hen hussies sit in front of the fence hoping they'd get mated. I have to go out and chase them off.

The toms are usually pretty docile although they're constantly trying to one up each other. They spend all day chasing each other back and forth while displaying. Two days ago they started trying to rip my thighs. I got a couple good face whacks in but they kept at it. So I grabbed a big stick. They mellowed out. Yesterday I didn't have the stick, and they came after me again. I tried to stand my ground but they started jumping up trying to bite me, so I ran, got the stick and came back to docile toms.

Congrats on your hatch, Wisher.

 

[Latestarter]

Heel low:

Yeh, I left one as found and tied the t'other one proper...
Absolutely blows 'cause I know if you asked them...which one is correct, it'd be the one they tied--cause, yeh, they DO know it all...nothing left to learn.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

Gosh Tara... got a little hot under the collar there aye? What's the big deal really, I've seen ties for shoes both ways and either way works equally well. The first eyelets don't really provide any real effective tightening in any case, and most folks our age can't bend over to pull them danged strings tight anyway

From my childhood, the one on the left appears "right" but in fact I was taught and have always come up through those first eyelets so the cross over is above the sides rather going down through them which puts the crossover down inside. I've also used the one on the right and it's been just fine. In the end, I don't see this issue as being earth shattering

I mean only in some critical evolutions is there but one way to do a thing. In most cases there are multiple ways to do a thing and still arrive at the desired outcome... Tie either shoe, I doubt they'll be falling off.

 

[CanuckBock]

Gosh Tara... got a little hot under the collar there aye? What's the big deal really, I've seen ties for shoes both ways and either way works equally well. The first eyelets don't really provide any real effective tightening in any case, and most folks our age can't bend over to pull them danged strings tight anyway

From my childhood, the one on the left appears "right" but in fact I was taught and have always come up through those first eyelets so the cross over is above the sides rather going down through them which puts the crossover down inside. I've also used the one on the right and it's been just fine. In the end, I don't see this issue as being earth shattering

I mean only in some critical evolutions is there but one way to do a thing. In most cases there are multiple ways to do a thing and still arrive at the desired outcome... Tie either shoe, I doubt they'll be falling off.

Not the lacings my dear fella...drag out yer spectacles, eh!... Tis the attachment of the "kiltie" <<I suggest you are so not going to touch that topic...hee hee>>

that I have issues with.

Kiltie (noun):
The Kiltie's function (besides not a thought fur wearing them boxers...tee hee...or is it briefs?) is not for mere decorative purposes. The Kiltie was designed from what I was told by my Faller father...to protect expensive leather boots from the damage that the laces exude on the boots' leather (even seen those leather cuffs for roping cowboys...similar to that). For a logger, you usually started yer career as a chokermen and that's where you began out wearing them corks...or caulk boots...mandatory gear indeedy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulk_boots:
No person worth a pinch of coon poo wanted to hafta re-buy their corks (pretty penny and lifesaving too) because you destroyed how they fit yer foot well. So you cared well fur them...well... My father use to say if you lasted the year as a chokerman, you'd make a good logger...if'n you didn't, well I guess the good often DO die young, eh.

The Kiltie also provides a bit more added waterprotection (the boots were labelled waterproofed but I still mink oiled the real leather parts) since they do cover over the area where the tongue is sewn to the boot...plus there is a certain style to a booted kiltie. Oh yes, women and THE style, eh.

You may purchase horsehair bobbles (with cutesy pineapple knots...mighten do that...braid up some bobbles to go with me kilties) to add to yer kiltie or even metal (German silver ones mostly so cheap cheep cheap) ding danglies.

nfi in either of these sites...

http://www.knot-a-tail.com/node/82
http://www.culturedcowboy.com/BootTrim/kilties.htm

Here's another of my dog showing boots...Horseshoe by Roper with its Kiltie tied right​

When not tied up right, the kiltie hangs down too far to do much protection, besides being damaged by the laces themselves, when not tied correctly.

One should know better than to question too deeply an old folk on a Sunday with her dog pups still napping from their breaky... Time to "release them hounds" and quit pestering persons on the Net, eh...Who let the dogs out?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Finally! Got a (later than expected) start on my Row By Rows.

Courtesy of Colorado:

 

[drumstick diva]

very nice SCG. I forget, do you still have the guineas or did they stay up on the roof?

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg that is very nice.