The Old Folks Home

[scottcaddy]

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Around here, you often can't dig a hole deep enough to bury a pig without it filling up with water. Pig pickings are strictly above-ground affairs.

our ground water is at 3 feet below the surface also. We would have to make a concrete oven filled with rocks then pig then sand.

My sister was married to a Fijian for a while and we did a few animals in the ground in Oz. Throw a few tough old roos in with the pig. Slow cooked roo is delish that way.
I'm fond of using a small smoker to slow cook the old birds, just drip on what ever flavor you like while it's cooking and it's Dinner Time!

Scott

 

[tnspursfan09]

This here is pretty cute too.

Whenever I have a hard time believing in miricles I just look at this face. She was born with craniosynostosis...her skull was fused so that there was no soft spot. No room for her brain to grow. They had to wait till she was 6 mos old to do surgery so that her skull would be thick enough to cut. Scariest thing I've ever had to go through.


The swelling scared the heck out of me.

She has a lot of attitude, lol. Hope yall enjoy these many faces of Maddy.





Wicked bed head going on here.



This year she is 4.


She's the light of my life, and my little gardener/chicken helper.

 

[Pozees]

Whenever I have a hard time believing in miricles I just look at this face. She was born with craniosynostosis...her skull was fused so that there was no soft spot. No room for her brain to grow. They had to wait till she was 6 mos old to do surgery so that her skull would be thick enough to cut. Scariest thing I've ever had to go through.


The swelling scared the heck out of me.

She has a lot of attitude, lol. Hope yall enjoy these many faces of Maddy.





Wicked bed head going on here.



This year she is 4.


She's the light of my life, and my little gardener/chicken helper.

Wow, how scary that must have been! She is adorable, I just love the picture of her in her glasses as well as the one of her helping in the garden

 

[scottcaddy]

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Looks like a heart-breaker in the making!

Scott

 

[tnspursfan09]

I don't even want to think about that. Right now she still believes in Prince Charming. She don't know yet that she may hafta kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her prince.

 

[scottcaddy]

I don't even want to think about that. Right now she still believes in Prince Charming. She don't know yet that she may hafta kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her prince.

Sadly, but so true! I wish you and yours all the best!!

Scott

 

[tnspursfan09]

Wow, how scary that must have been! She is adorable, I just love the picture of her in her glasses as well as the one of her helping in the garden

The glasses are fairly new and she may only need them for a short while, something about how her face is still shifting into place as the new bone in her skull becomes fully integrated with the old and her eyes align correctly. She doesn't have to wear them all them time, but she said she need them to find all the best strawberries. She does go to speech therapy once a week...she smart as a whip. but wouldn't talk at all till she was 2 and when she did start talking she wouldn't use consonants. Try translating that. Her speech has improved in leaps and bounds since then...though she's still hard to understand when she's excited...have to tell her to slow down and think about what she wants to say.

 

[drumstick diva]

she is a little doll and seems to have the personality to get through all of this.

 

[tnspursfan09]

she is a little doll and seems to have the personality to get through all of this.

He BFF is sleepin over this weekend and Maddy has been Little Miss Bossy-Pants, for sure. (and I've had "I Have a Dream" from Tangled stuck in my head all freakin day)

 

[ozexpat]

The glasses are fairly new and she may only need them for a short while, something about how her face is still shifting into place as the new bone in her skull becomes fully integrated with the old and her eyes align correctly. She doesn't have to wear them all them time, but she said she need them to find all the best strawberries. She does go to speech therapy once a week...she smart as a whip. but wouldn't talk at all till she was 2 and when she did start talking she wouldn't use consonants. Try translating that. Her speech has improved in leaps and bounds since then...though she's still hard to understand when she's excited...have to tell her to slow down and think about what she wants to say.

I am so glad you have her talking!

I have a two year old that started talking in full sentences when he was just 16 months. Recently he has got stuck on the letter K. Its the first letter in the work because in their native language. When he is excited his language goes into shutdown. Add that to being surrounded by English, Tagalog and their Ilonggo and it takes a very patient multilinguist with great lateral thinking skills to understand him. Fortunately my wife and his nanny fit that description.