The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

Geta sounds like a typical male. I think all their male hormones fall out and take the brains with them.

I must say though I used to walk a lot and sometimes encounter nasty animals coming out of the woods. I thought I would get a cattle prod but, knowing ME, I figured I was dumb enough at some point I would test it personally. SOOOO I never bought one.

 

[sourland]

Good morning.

 

[getaclue]

Good morning everyone.
Good morning sourland.

 

[getaclue]

Diva, most likely you'd only have tested it once.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Being married to a genius, has it's moments. When we put the electric fence up, the grands were warned not to touch it. One of the neighbor boys came over, and being typical boys, they dared each other to touch it. First my grandson, quickly put a finger on the fence, then pulled it back quickly. "Awww, that wasn't so bad" he told the other boy. The neighbor boy followed suit, and quickly touched the fence with one finger. "Yep, it wasn't bad at all", they agreed. My genius husband overheard this.

Dh comes into the house, gets his volt meter, goes and tests the fence. Yup, it's working. He keeps testing. It reads exactly as it should. This can't be right, since the boys touched the fence, and remarked that it wasn't too bad. Does this man even remember being a boy, and taking a dare? Anyway, my genius husband proceeds to take his whole hand, and grab on tightly to the fence. It's working just fine! He admitted that had he not already been sitting down to test the fence, it would have probably knocked him on his butt. Of course, I had to walk off, so as not to hurt his feelings, and have a good hard laugh.

Later on in the afternoon, when no one was listening, I asked my grandson if he wanted to go touch the fence again, to see if it was working. NOPE. I mentioned him saying it wasn't too bad, so why wouldn't he go touch it for me, and tell me if it was working? First off, they barely touched it with 1 fingertip. Secondly, it was a dare, and neither boy was willing to show any weakness. BUT neither one of them is willing to touch it again. Just what I thought.

In the meantime, several times my husband has wondered out loud, how touching the fence didn't bother the boys, but zapped the tar out of him. He speculates that it must be that the boys were wearing tennis shoes, which insulated them, while he was sitting on the ground. I agree, that must be it, and go off to chuckle.

He did order a fence tester. It came today. I went to test the fence, and reported back to him that the tester says the fence is working just fine, but he can go grab it to test it, if he thinks it's not working.

Brilliant!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning everyone.

 

[bruceha2000]

Bruce, there is 1 type of bait that I've had the best success with.

Thanks! I see they carry it at Ace Hardware as well .... and $2.50 less than Amazon. I need to swing through there for something else on Monday so I'll pick some up.

Being married to a genius, has it's moments.

Yeah I'm sure having his butt firmly grounded plus the full grab got him a bit more of a shock than the boys. In fact, it is possible that since the boys stabbed their finger in and right back out, they may have even missed the pulse entirely.

I've never grabbed my hotwire (*) because I'm not a genius but I've accidentally touched it 3 times. That isn't something you forget, in fact it is pretty much impossible to forget the first 5 or so minutes after you touch it because you've got quite a nice ache going on. And yes I was wearing rubber soled footwear every time and no I wasn't sitting on my butt.

* Cyclops Stallion 2.5 joules on the outbound side

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning old folks coming alive rough night but guess I did sleep enough..
Second cup all 6 peeps alive this morning they got their beaks in nutra drench
water last night as they where put in the brooder.. Go get them food from silkie coop
this morning

 

[Peep_Show]

getaclue --

Could've dared them to pee on the fence! (bwaaahahaha)

My favorite fence story was when our fence wasn't working. Went and walked the line and found a frog that had attempted to crawl over the lowest wire and was literally fried in place. oops. (Used a stick to flip it off the wire)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh my dinner lost