The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

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ditto on pix..... i also love the smell of cigar smoke He had a bedroom next to mine that was converted to a lab. Every morning at about five am I would be awakend by the smell of cigar smoke solder and the occasional expletive Only thing I missed when I moved out.

 

[Alaskan]

Ok... I will remember to take pictures!

 

[chickadoodles]

Hey can y'all please look at this chick and tell me if you think it is a splash Maran please?

 

[perchie.girl]

Dad was always tinkering with something..... with his lilly white leggs in some gawd aweful print shorts dark brown sandles and black sox......

ONe time he was welding on something on the floor squatted donw for a good view.... Got that job done and realized he had sunburnt parts that should have never seen the light of day... We teased him endleslly about why he walked like a cowboy for about a week.....

Or the time He raised me up straight out of bed with a string of curses and furtive sounds from his lab. I asked him what happened. He had blown the fuses on TWO oscilloscopes... he was trying to find the spare fuses...

Then he was developing a machine to manufacture contact lenses.... He needed a very good seal for the bearings because they were using diamond dust slurry for the machining process. Lead time for the right one was about six months.... He designed one and made a mold and cast his own in 48 hours..

I was checked out on all the machines in the garage by the time I was fourteen. I learned how to solder at 16 because we built our first color TV. hed call out the numbers for the resisters I would read the color code and hand him one. I also had to Drive to the drug store to test the vacuume tubes too. 1971

 

[chickadoodles]

Deb how nice that you were so close with your Dad and got to do so much with him! What a blessing!

 

[Alaskan]

Hey can y'all please look at this chick and tell me if you think it is a splash Maran please?

Is that a single comb? If yes, then I vote yes, splash Marans.

Feet are the right color, it has feathers on feet, no fluff on face.... Etc.

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb how nice that you were so close with your Dad and got to do so much with him! What a blessing!

He was a reprobate and a hoot and brilliant... and died too young at 69

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Yes it is a single comb. Thank you Alaskan!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I don't think it matters the age they are when we lose them. My dad was 85 but I still miss him like crazy.

 

[Bunnylady]

My sisters goats are always trying to kill themselves.....

I am starting to wonder .....

I've heard it said that goats are born looking for a way to die, so it sounds like your sisters' goats are doing their part for the species.

On the few occasions that I have transported goats, I've noticed that they laid down pretty soon after the vehicle started moving. Apparently, they don't like swaying and getting swung off balance; they are more stable lying down and assume that position pretty quickly. Unfortunately, they can still yell while lying down.