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[superchemicalgirl]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/science/bird-eggs-shapes-flight.html

 

[getaclue]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/science/bird-eggs-shapes-flight.html

Interesting read!

 

[Alaskan]

Where can you get a UVB parasol? I've used a wide brim hat (among other things) for many years. It would bring out all sorts of negative reactions from passersby.
One year I got egged twice - got my shoes icky. (nah nah, they missed me) and also had water thrown on me by someone driving past. I was afraid it was acid or something. Thankfully not.

Teenagers would delight in running me off the shoulder (no sidewalks here) and making nasty remarks. How boring their lives must be - that I became their entertainment.

The nicer populace would just refer to me as the "Lady with the hat.

Oh good grief!

Nasty bored people in this world!

I wonder if you wore a giant red hat if you would get more or less trouble.

The red hat ladies here in town are a hoot.

 

[getaclue]

Its the generation that didn't get spanked enough as children!

My daughters had several friends that their parents would fuss at them for their behavior, but never really do anything about it. No consequences for poor behavior choices. When the youngest daughter went on a chaperoned date, the young man got really rude, and mouthy with me. I told him he better shut up, or we would leave, and I would take him home. He kept it up, so we left.

The next day his mother called. She let me know that she, and her husband never told him to shut up, because he was allowed to express himself any way he wanted. I let her know that if he talked to them like he did to me, they should tell him to shut up. She told me they would never do that, because they wanted to be his friend. I told her a friend would never talk to me that way. At least, not more than once. I asked her that while they were busy being his friend, where were his parents? She then let me know it was inappropriate for me to have made him leave, and brought him home, for expressing himself.

I let her know that until he learned to respect me, and hold his tongue, even if he disagreed with me, and quit expressing himself, he would never go out with my daughter again. She called a couple times inviting my daughter over to their place, inviting her to go to the mall with them, inviting her to the movies with them. I told her no. Not until her son learned he had to respect me, and not mouth off to me. Three weeks later, he called and apologized, promising never to speak to me that way again.
Several years later, my daughter married him. I can honestly say he never disrespected me, or spoke to me that way again.

 

[getaclue]

Thank you Al, I was about to mention the red hat society, and all the ladies wearing red, and pink hats.

 

[chickisoup]

View attachment 1050556 The ol' parlor stove. lol looks ruff, hope to get it refinished at some point but it's a great stove and nice to have on days like today in particular.
Get it rolling tho and it'll damn near run ya out of the house, it puts out some serious heat for such lil stove.

Awwww, I miss my parlor stove. It was an old beauty and it would cook you right out of the house if you weren't paying attention. I loved it.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Awwww, I miss my parlor stove. It was an old beauty and it would cook you right out of the house if you weren't paying attention. I loved it.

I have an old ratty wingback chair that sits next to it on the door side and I sit there and bask in the warmth and add wood when needed. NOBODY sits in my chair....Well except the grands if they're cold or just want to snuggle!

 

[pennyJo1960]

My daughters had several friends that their parents would fuss at them for their behavior, but never really do anything about it. No consequences for poor behavior choices. When the youngest daughter went on a chaperoned date, the young man got really rude, and mouthy with me. I told him he better shut up, or we would leave, and I would take him home. He kept it up, so we left.

The next day his mother called. She let me know that she, and her husband never told him to shut up, because he was allowed to express himself any way he wanted. I let her know that if he talked to them like he did to me, they should tell him to shut up. She told me they would never do that, because they wanted to be his friend. I told her a friend would never talk to me that way. At least, not more than once. I asked her that while they were busy being his friend, where were his parents? She then let me know it was inappropriate for me to have made him leave, and brought him home, for expressing himself.

I let her know that until he learned to respect me, and hold his tongue, even if he disagreed with me, and quit expressing himself, he would never go out with my daughter again. She called a couple times inviting my daughter over to their place, inviting her to go to the mall with them, inviting her to the movies with them. I told her no. Not until her son learned he had to respect me, and not mouth off to me. Three weeks later, he called and apologized, promising never to speak to me that way again.
Several years later, my daughter married him. I can honestly say he never disrespected me, or spoke to me that way again.

he probably would have wound up in prison if not for you

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have an old ratty wingback chair that sits next to it on the door side and I sit there and bask in the warmth and add wood when needed. NOBODY sits in my chair....Well except the grands if they're cold or just want to snuggle!

this is our trash burner it heats our home , there was a very nice wood stove in the house when we bought it I wanted this trash burner Richard and I had picked up a few months earlier from folks that where retiring he had used it in his shop for 45 years they where retiring turning the house to their son he did not want the stove we bought for 80.00 rebuilt the ash box the only part needing redone

 

[perchie.girl]

How hot is it there?

Not too bad its only in the middle nineties.