The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

If you can pick up after yourself, not scream, not constantly demand my attention and not break my things I can stand you for as long as you can stand me.

That being said, if you have problems with any of the above, my homicidal threat level will quickly go to orange.

 

[gryeyes]

 
indeed - by the fall

I have to admit my tolerance for young children is about 2 days.

Wow, SCG, you are more tolerant than I.... But as long as they aren't in residence where *I* live, I can pretend to be nice.

Actually, little kids have become more adorable in my retirement. Wonder what that's about?

As long as I can exit stage left when my tolerance level is reached, that's cool. (I do love baby laughter, and their feet, oh my goodness!)

 

[ozexpat]

my kids are quite well behaved thank goodness.

the only time i have low tolerance is on long plane rides but then, thats watch scotch is for

 

[bamadude]

Reminds me of the w.c fields quote: children should neither be seen nor heard from-ever again. Lol

 

[RedPulletMama]

Love this, thanks for sharing. Glad I'm not the only one who enjoys a bit of the graveyard.

No problem My little brother is actually autistic and he has a fascination w/ graveyards. Every time I go down, we have to visit a cemetery lol. found that headstone and snapped a picture cause I thought it was funny. If you notice the dates on it the guy isn't even dead yet! LOL He bought his plot and stone, but is currently still living.

 

[RedPulletMama]

I have to admit my tolerance for young children is about 2 days.

SCG I will keep that in mind and not come visit you w/ my 5 kids. As a matter of fact, I will come visit you to escape my 5 kids!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

That would be phenomenal!

... for both of us.

How do you still have sanity with 5? Or is sanity just a happy memory for you?

 

[RedPulletMama]

That would be phenomenal!

... for both of us.

How do you still have sanity with 5? Or is sanity just a happy memory for you?

I don't think I was ever sane lol! I've just ALWAYS had kids. Had my first in high school, she is almost 16 now and then another when I was 19, then another at 23, then later on 2 more. I am a very fertile gal lol. Kids are the 'norm' for me. I think I would feel awkward without them after all these years. Did I mention that while my kids are at school all day, I also run an in- home daycare? Yep, kids all day every day of my life! Yes, a vacation sounds nice

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Eighty-four unread posts...my my my...the old folks have been busy this weekend past! Me too--time flies when you are having fun. I will post my weekend and then go read...see if I can catch up to y'all...better be turtle speed though; I am sore, tired and contented this Monday. Never really tired and off on the weekends, but come Monday...agh! Need Mondays to bring sanity back and make me pause to reflect...time to act my age which is older than dirt! Terra Firma is saggy & baggy today.

Snow has melted enough I could get in on the drifts to manage to hang a new flag on the flag pole Rick made...yikes...shredded flag to replace...been a rough winter...on a lot of us. Run a bit ragged perhaps?

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Course while we were out that way, Fixins decided it was time to play dog...DOG TIME! Always dog time in her view.

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Happy old dog...kick it, wing it, toss it again. But she is old like her owners...so we have the spirit but...well gotta be careful, us old timers...careful what we do...

'Cause sure right as rain, even if we fall down.

We can make the most of it...many a joke I've heard about falling down ("Help, I've fallen and can't get up!")...yes, fallen...but us oldtimers, we are a smart bunch (not just to have lived so long) because we make the most out of our dilemmas. Falling down is no big event and is just a reason to look and see if your laces need tying, socks need pulling up, toes need clipping...while you're down there...

You're down (but never out!)...may as well make the most of it.

Have a good old roll because...

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Man alive, gonna pay trying to get back up again...

My fav SIL brought some gifts for me from San Francisco--have to go visit her and pick them up now that she is back home. Perfect signs BUT there is an issue...there are only TWO of them and well, uh...

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Where am I gonna put them up...too many places are just too perfect for them!

Don't cha just luv the webber prints waterfowl leave as calling cards...how cute! Webs were here!

Ruddy Shel pair. Male in front, female in background. Not ducks, not geese, but their own special species...
Lookit those legs...long, long legs on webs!
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Now I've done it...the ducks (the bantam ducks especially) just EXPECT to be let out...I get the 4 o'clock,

"Mip mip mippy! Tis time to let us out or else!"
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Swans, Ruddy Shels, & some of the bantam ducks.​

Quacks, honks, trumpets and general roars of delight!

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Trying to behave...only four more sleeps before we go pick them up. Two pairs of Buff Tufted geese, six White Crested Ducklings and adult Crested Ducks in two Black hens, a Grey hen, and a White Drake. Used up my excited energies to get the quarantine area ready on Sunday but finding it rather hard to behave and not be too giddy about the new arrivals... All US stocks and will add some nice new diversity to our lines for us up here in Canuckville.

We already have the Crested Ducks in Grey...this is Palm from a few years ago in quarantine, but Whites and the Blacks are new varieties for me in the Crested Ducks...should be extra fun to see what colours are under the Whites.

So happy I could just QUACK!

Here is a photo of the Tufted Buff geese...say Hello to Taps & Trees and Car & Rug...yeh, normally I don't name birds until I've met them but been thinking about them far too much and needed something harmless to entertain meself with.

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Anyone here know if the tufted genetics in geese is a simple dominant/recessive trait? I am going to find out I guess in time because we are keeping one unrelated pair together and splitting the other with two of our Buff carries Buff Pied geese (Bug and Pet are two of the now "geese" I posted gosling pics of on here).


Made a trip to my son's to celebrate his belated b-day on Saturday. Bought the cake in the city...cheater this year indeed--he's over 30 now, so even the candles have been trimmed back...ha ha ha!

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Weather was warm again on Sunday and Rick was off; so he got to put one of the three chrome rings on the spare tire of the one ton...I think it looks pretty spiffy!

Course Fixins wanted in on the pix...truck dog...she's always game to be in the middle of everything on the go here. But not without scaring me, threatened to JUMP off the truck deck...cripers...always gotta worry me. So quick click and run to the dog before she leaps. Dang dogs...leap and cripple herself...knows I'd be there to catch her.

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Must surely be spring sprung...feel the warmth, the needed energy...the welling of fun times with lots of new birds here at the ranch. Now to go see what the rest of the gang have been chatting it up about...

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

Edit - somehow lost some photos...so I put them back up.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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John The Contractor has sensitive hearing. He wears earplugs AND headset style ear protectors when he uses power equipment. He also plays music pretty loud at work sites. When I am present, he turns the music down so we can talk when he's not running saws or nail guns.

He had just pulled off the ear protection to tell me something, standing next to the first coop. Several of the roosters chose that moment to crow in unison. He clapped his hands over his ears and kinda, sorta swore from the unexpected barrage of sound. Then he leaned around the corner to peer into the closest coop window. He "bokked" loudly through the screen.
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Smart man. He'll still have his hearing when he's old.
Out of all the precautions I took working in industry, I was most diligent with hearing protection.
My last position at my primary job was power house engineer. Every possible hazard imaginable was there. When you walked in the building there were warning labels covering the door. Hearing protection required, PCBs, High Voltage, Caustics, Asbestos, Explosives, Confined space, yada yada yada.

LOL

Maybe it's a male thing? Bob loves to speak chicken to the chickens. How about it, fellas, do you all speak chicken to your chickens?

I try to speak chicken. I even share my renditions of the egg song, aerial predator call and cockerels first crows with my chicken classes. However, I haven't learned the one to tell the roosters to stop crowing.

I wish i had any camera with me. My phone wont take pics. Im at the rattlesnake rodeo in opp, al. If u have never been, u are missing out. Oh and rattlesnake is delicious. This is my 9th time coming here. I highly recommend

Rattlenake is good.

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Don't just do a flyover of the Midwest, especially St. Louis.

It was 70 degrees F at 7 pm last night and a low of 55 tonight. Tomorrow night is going down to 30 or below. I'm worried about the fruit crop here.