The Old Folks Home

[lovesfarms]

Here's a thought... For those of us who detest the miralax prep before a colonoscopy... Maybe we should be concentrating on what bacteria is being introduced inside of us that could make us sick! Anyhow, for those who are immunocomprosed

 

[getaclue]

I have an Ugly Stick. Yes, they're darn near impossible to break.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Our 4 cattle dogs seem to be stuck in their adolescent years at the moment. It took them a while to get over losing their sissy and work out their new pecking order but now that they have they have settled into this boundless energy phase punctuated with clinging 'we love you mommy and daddy' phase that I think only Cattle Dogs exhibit. They mature so slowly that they seem to pause before gaining more wisdom. Hard to believe they will be 3 in a few days and don't mature until they are 7 or 8.

Our two oldest are almost 9 and just wonderful companions. I told DH that we only had 5-6 more years before the cattle dogs started to settle down a bit and that we had to plan to out live them. He asked me how long that would be? 80? I just chuckled and told him they could live to be in their high teens. We know somebody with a 20 year old ACD. So maybe 85. I swear I heard him whimper.

FINALLY! Winter! They are saying 3-8 inches of snow by Sat. night with 35mph winds along with a winter storm watch.

You can have ours trust me up to one and a half feet here .. Did get shower to be able to face going to the coops .. Glad it warmed to 33, can wear my high black rubber boots..

 

[lovesfarms]

Dh had his ileoscopy 2 days ago and felt sick too his stomach all day yesterday. I called the GI last evening and they were going to get him an urgent appointment today but even the Drs can do just so much! We sat in a corner as far away as we could from the other people in the ER... He will spend the night there on antibiotics. His GI called him while in the ER but simply had no open appointments to take him. He's sending three of his team to care for him and get him home as soon as possible.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Dh had his ileoscopy 2 days ago and felt sick too his stomach all day yesterday. I called the GI last evening and they were going to get him an urgent appointment today but even the Drs can do just so much! We sat in a corner as far away as we could from the other people in the ER... He will spend the night there on antibiotics. His GI called him while in the ER but simply had no open appointments to take him. He's sending three of his team to care for him and get him home as soon as possible.

Wish there was something I could say. Keep you in our prayers.

 

[microchick]

You can have ours trust me up to one and a half feet here .. Did get shower to be able to face going to the coops .. Glad it warmed to 33, can wear my high black rubber boots..

No, potential 8 inches is fine and enough for me. It's not the snow, it's the blowin' around that gets to be a pain.

You shower to feed your chickens? Mine don't care if I smell like a locker room as long as I show up with their morning bread ration and a bucket of food!

If I don't smell before I go in, I will when I go out. I wish somebody would figure out a way to litter box train chickens.

 

[pennyJo1960]

You can have this. I showered for me not the blasted birds.. They really do not care as long as I dish out food and meal worms ..
Tell ya it will be a miracle if the idiots around here don't end up in our chicken yard

 

[microchick]

Yeah, Penny, nothing brings out the idiots like a good hard snow when a good hard snow is as scarce as hens' teeth.

It should be interesting here with the storm due to hit tomorrow night and it being new years eve. The County Mounties and the state troopers are going to have their hands full with revelers in ditches, I fear.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Use to love going out in Juneau after the first snow look at all the 4 wheel drives off the road..

 

[microchick]

Like here. The road we live on t's into a north south running gravel road. If you turn on our road to the west, no problem, if you turn to the east big problem because up till two years ago it was s dirt road without county maintenance. It also had a creek you had to ford at the bottom of two hills. The climb going up and the drop going down to the east was one that would make you gasp and pray every time you used it.

The problem was that GPS units on cars would inevitably tell drivers to use that dirt road in order to get from point A to point B, which wasn't bad unless there had been heavy rain. Then the road was pure muck that looked solid to the casual observer. I don't know how many times we encountered people who were looking for help and would we be willing to pull their car out of the muck with our tractor. Largest was a delivery box van and they all say the same thing. Our GPS told us this was the road to take.

Two years ago they put in a bridge and started graveling and maintaining the road there. The right people must have complained about it.