Why are you apologizing? You learned something!!!
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SCG I probably have forgotten but, what happened to your super nasty broody turkey, that was out for blood (yours)
I was afraid I was being offensive some how......
I just learned; UP and Yoopers refers to people of the upper Penninsula of Michigan, there are more colors and styles to the Northern lights that I was aware of and not everyone sees them
, about foxfire, sterile talc and pleural effusion, carports, salts for salting and dihydrogen monoxide.
Our cold weather has turned into lovely weather. It's supposed to stay this way as far as forecast at this point. It got down to -18.7C in the coop the other night. It's a balmy -4.5 tonight.
I have met many kinds of people, both male and female. I actually know more quality guys than women. (I won't go into the less than ideal women I've had the unfortunate experience of knowing) Dealing with less than ideal people pretty much ruins the ride.
I've been very fortunate to be surrounded by good family on both sides and have very few, but very fantastic friends. I'm an extremely guarded person (maybe extremely isn't a strong enough word...
) as I've usually found most people to be quite disappointing. A recent acquaintance/friend who I originally met online and have met for coffee in person a few times just pointed out to me that they've known me for 4 years, they don't know my (full) name and they don't know where I live...lol. I go by a completely different name with everything else I do internet wise ...I'm basically a ghost.
BYC members overall are a refreshing bunch of people, most appear to be pretty "stand up." Those on this thread stand out as a particularly good example. BYC is the only place I use my real name.
I love that the "alien" was a chicken!! And a very tolerant one at that for wearing all that gear.
We always loved watching "Just for Laughs." There's some crazy Canadians for you! Yeah, we'd pretty much fit right in.
I'd miss not seeing the stars. City lights are good for one night. The it's time to be home.
All the husbands I know don't know what to do if their spouse became ill. I think it's very much like you mention getaclue, they just want everything fixed and feel helpless. I know my hubby would be the same. My hubby couldn't give me the gears about driving...I do all the city driving.
City driving = not his thing. I've always been the driver for my family...lol. It's a good fit for us.
I was watching the funny fail compilations and stupid people stuff...and I had to stop. It's ruining the ride for me. Where did all the intelligent people go?
Where there ever intelligent people in the first place?
My hair stylist is 2 hours away!
(She can do no wrong with my hair)
Good thing I only get my hair cut once/twice a year. My sister lives there too so it's not so bad.
My two alien stories. We stayed overnight in the big city (Manitoba only has two cities) when we were in our early 20's. Having breakfast the next morning, a lovely man was having breakfast beside and he struck up conversation with us. Suddenly he was talking about aliens and abduction, very left field. Usually that's not something you just start telling complete strangers, is it? It was a very strange experience.
My
experience: Fall of 2015, at dusk, the kid and I were about to take the truck and leave the yard. We saw a light start coming down the 1/2 mile of road from the highway. It looked like the light on a quad, I figured it was the neighbor down the road. I thought I'd wait until it went past to start up the truck and go...I never like people to see what I'm doing in the yard. The light got partway down the road to our place and was just gone. We walked out to look down the road and we see the light north of the road in our quarter. Then it's in the quarter north and west of the one it was just in moving in the trees. Everything's fenced and the land was too wet to drive anything. Kid was 14 and I was 43. We both saw it with the dog. . I don't disbelieve or believe...there's many things we don't know and are discovering and I like to be open minded. But this still freaks me out...and that's all I'm going to say...because I'm home alone at the moment.
Our cold weather has turned into lovely weather. It's supposed to stay this way as far as forecast at this point. It got down to -18.7C in the coop the other night. It's a balmy -4.5 tonight.
I have met many kinds of people, both male and female. I actually know more quality guys than women. (I won't go into the less than ideal women I've had the unfortunate experience of knowing) Dealing with less than ideal people pretty much ruins the ride.
I've been very fortunate to be surrounded by good family on both sides and have very few, but very fantastic friends. I'm an extremely guarded person (maybe extremely isn't a strong enough word...
BYC members overall are a refreshing bunch of people, most appear to be pretty "stand up." Those on this thread stand out as a particularly good example. BYC is the only place I use my real name.
I love that the "alien" was a chicken!! And a very tolerant one at that for wearing all that gear.
We always loved watching "Just for Laughs." There's some crazy Canadians for you! Yeah, we'd pretty much fit right in.
I'd miss not seeing the stars. City lights are good for one night. The it's time to be home.
All the husbands I know don't know what to do if their spouse became ill. I think it's very much like you mention getaclue, they just want everything fixed and feel helpless. I know my hubby would be the same. My hubby couldn't give me the gears about driving...I do all the city driving.
I was watching the funny fail compilations and stupid people stuff...and I had to stop. It's ruining the ride for me. Where did all the intelligent people go?
My hair stylist is 2 hours away!
Good thing I only get my hair cut once/twice a year. My sister lives there too so it's not so bad.
My two alien stories. We stayed overnight in the big city (Manitoba only has two cities) when we were in our early 20's. Having breakfast the next morning, a lovely man was having breakfast beside and he struck up conversation with us. Suddenly he was talking about aliens and abduction, very left field. Usually that's not something you just start telling complete strangers, is it? It was a very strange experience.
My
okay aliens be darned we have all had some experience with them
even me or Brother and Mom talked of driving home one night
and they saw a very bright light over the trees darting back and forth hovering
only for a few seconds then blip and gone..
Now I blame no memory of recent events there is a character that wrote a book about
God being an Alien he does give a fairly convincing concern at least
but for the life of me cannot remember his name
even me or Brother and Mom talked of driving home one night
and they saw a very bright light over the trees darting back and forth hovering
only for a few seconds then blip and gone..
Now I blame no memory of recent events there is a character that wrote a book about
God being an Alien he does give a fairly convincing concern at least
but for the life of me cannot remember his name
OH... NO, not at all Deb... I was just pointing out that SCG ought to know her chemicals... like pretty well!
I am so excited.. I almost bust my buttons clear off!
As I mentioned quite awhile back (end of summer) when @superchemicalgirl did that magnificent cemetery restoration I was inspired to try one more time to get the ball rolling on a very old cemetery.
Some odd years back, when I was in Texas, I tried to find a few old relatives whose burial places were unknown.
One of the ones I was searching for I DID find, my father's father's mother's mother's mother's mother!! She had been buried in a tiny cemetery along with her youngest daughter and the daughter's family. The cemetery in which she was buried was in the middle of a field.....and......yep, over the years abandoned and forgotten.
I found a cousin, descended from the daughter with which she is buried...who had found the cemetery at one point, cleaned it up, put a fence around it, and then that was it. She had found it and done that work, maybe 40 years back, because her father had promised HIS father, on his deathbed, that he would put up the tombstones for the family that was buried there...but had none.... He didn't get around to it until HE was pretty old and feeble, so his daughter helped out and finally got it done!
By the time I found the cemetery it was a mess of thorny shrubs so thick I could only barely get a photo of the fallen over tombstone of my...uh... 4 times great Grandmother (did I count that right??). The tombstone of my multi-great-grandmother is an old one.
So..... photo of cemetery when I found it 3 or so years back:
(person in photo is my mom, also, that is not a great and beautiful oak tree as I had hoped, it is a dead tree covered in even more thorn covered vines)
The entire cemetery has now been cleared, and an excellent restorationist (or at least the website says all the stuff that SCG said ) is now going to fix up my antique family headstone.
Pretty darn cool!!!!
Thanks SCG for the push!
As I mentioned quite awhile back (end of summer) when @superchemicalgirl did that magnificent cemetery restoration I was inspired to try one more time to get the ball rolling on a very old cemetery.
Some odd years back, when I was in Texas, I tried to find a few old relatives whose burial places were unknown.
One of the ones I was searching for I DID find, my father's father's mother's mother's mother's mother!! She had been buried in a tiny cemetery along with her youngest daughter and the daughter's family. The cemetery in which she was buried was in the middle of a field.....and......yep, over the years abandoned and forgotten.
I found a cousin, descended from the daughter with which she is buried...who had found the cemetery at one point, cleaned it up, put a fence around it, and then that was it. She had found it and done that work, maybe 40 years back, because her father had promised HIS father, on his deathbed, that he would put up the tombstones for the family that was buried there...but had none.... He didn't get around to it until HE was pretty old and feeble, so his daughter helped out and finally got it done!
By the time I found the cemetery it was a mess of thorny shrubs so thick I could only barely get a photo of the fallen over tombstone of my...uh... 4 times great Grandmother (did I count that right??). The tombstone of my multi-great-grandmother is an old one.
So..... photo of cemetery when I found it 3 or so years back:
(person in photo is my mom, also, that is not a great and beautiful oak tree as I had hoped, it is a dead tree covered in even more thorn covered vines)
The entire cemetery has now been cleared, and an excellent restorationist (or at least the website says all the stuff that SCG said ) is now going to fix up my antique family headstone.
Pretty darn cool!!!!
Thanks SCG for the push!
Can't wait to see a pic of it when it is done. Glad you did it. Cemeteries preserve history too.
Diva that broody turkey is still broody and still a nasty piece of work. She bit me last week through my winter coat and my arm bruised pretty bad.
Diva that broody turkey is still broody and still a nasty piece of work. She bit me last week through my winter coat and my arm bruised pretty bad.
Maybe time to get a replacement turkey w/better manners. She might be so tough you'll need an oversized pressure cooker to get her tender.
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