The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Morning room took shower feel almost normal slipper not shoes had my coffee
pork loin out for dinner still need to clean my coops

 

[ronott1]

What is killing off the local species? I missed it?

Usually an invasive species comes off of a boat into the Bay. Different types of sea life has invaded SF Bay

Asian clams, Chinese mitten crabs, Amur River clams, New Zealand carnivorous sea slugs, Black Sea jellyfish and Japanese gobies are just a few of the exotics that have ended up in San Francisco Bay, usually transported in ships’ ballast water.

Article: https://www.marinij.com/2008/02/22/san-francisco-bay-has-most-non-native-species-in-world/

I think it was cottonwood trees that took over the creek in Nevada

 

[Peep_Show]

Ok got one for you from yesterday. What's the year

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I vote with someone repurposing the headstone for a later burial. Tsk tsk.

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micro...
Oh, yeah. I cook! (And I can, and dry, and freeze)
Not really interested, though, in finding out if aliens are tasty...nor visa versa. But just sayin' that if running away were the only option, well, I'm a goner.

 

[chickadoodles]

Usually an invasive species comes off of a boat into the Bay. Different types of sea life has invaded SF Bay



Article: https://www.marinij.com/2008/02/22/san-francisco-bay-has-most-non-native-species-in-world/

I think it was cottonwood trees that took over the creek in Nevada

Thanks I will read it. I read one last week on Canada's green crabs that invaded the New England coast and are killing off the native sea life. They are very aggressive.

 

[CapricornFarm]

What is killing off the local species? I missed it?

Probably mankind.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Probably mankind.

I'll 2nd that

 

[superchemicalgirl]

It looks like the 2 and the 1 match the 1 and the 8 as to the depth and style of the cutting, while the 4 and the 0 have a shallow and sketchy look - like 1821 was done by a professional, and the 40 was done by an amateur.

Scg to me it looks like someone re-purposed a head stone that did not have a name on it.

I vote with someone repurposing the headstone for a later burial. Tsk tsk.

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Ding! Ding! Give these girls some cookies.

The original was 1821, the "fix" was 1840. My guess is repurposed.

I solved the other stone mystery today after work, but work just called and I have to head back. So... I'll post it later.

 

[microchick]

DH and I were married in Casa Grande Arizona. We loved it there. In one of those weird twists of fate, the couple who stood with us was a couple that was going to work the speed bike race we were participating in two days after our wedding (short honeymoon). In talking with them I learned that I went to high school with the guy and we graduated together! Way back in central IL! Go Dragons! RAH! Anyway they have a gorgeous home there in a subdivision. One of the things we noticed out there was that our sinuses were behaving themselves. Yeah, they told us, unfortunately, humankind was monkeying with things and bringing in their favorite trees, plants, flowers etc that weren't native to the Arizona desert and making them thrive there by hauling in topsoil and copious amounts of water. People,they told us were slowly beginning to complain of allergies again.

When will we learn?

Slept most of the afternoon. Methotrexate shot hit me hard and fast this week. I keep telling myself the payoff will be feeling improved by Tuesday and stay improved until the next shot. I can trade one bad day for 6 good!

Penny I need to clean my coops also but I'm hitting them with safeguard the middle of the week so I'll wait till next weekend to muck everything out. I did get out and sweep down cobwebs yesterday. Spiders are really bad this fall, along with mice and field rats. I've seen three rats so far where usually there is just one in the spring and one in the fall and the neighbors said they have been seeing them also. Two nights ago I put my Tomcat bait trap out in the run overnight where the dogs and birds can't bother it. I pick it up the next morning when I let the birds out. Yesterday I bent over to pick up the trap and when I lifted it, a big fat field mouse came flying out the other end. One less mouse, lol!

Let the birds out and one of the little SDW roosters ran out and right to where the mouse had disappeared down a tunnel they had dug. Little rooster stood there, turned his head and peered down the hole. I told him he was no help at all. They were supposed to catch and kill the mice so I didn't have to poison them, not watch them for entertainment sake!

 

[drumstick diva]

don't want to hurt any of them. Just want them to move some where the folks won't scream as much as I do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have three cats outside have moles but no mice get to live most don't either Fear still get her share also we are worried about the old girl this year hips at 17 are full of arthritis unfortunately her past life she was never fully housebroke