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[LittleLakePhil]

View attachment 1633932 Here’s this weeks color bouquet of Cayuga eggs. DD3 cracked open all but the original black one to make banana bread yesterday. It’s interesting (& a little gross) that the chalaza is a smokey black color.
Is that normal? Shaw? Jane? Anybody? I assume it’s normal, but it made me squeamish & fished them out. Aren’t these pretty tho? I love the black & the pewter ones the best, but it looks like grey is what we’ll get the most.

They'll turn white within a few weeks.... They just fade over time...I can't remember how long out was but eventually they will be white

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Can I stand on my soapbox a minute?

I've been on a mission to buy my great-nieces/nephews little kid books after visiting them a few months ago & realizing they have none. They live out of state & so once a month I pick a new one from Amazon to be shipped out. The books I pick are all well read favorites of mine, but I still read the negative reviews because some of them are badly printed, damaged or edited, etc...

I am BLOWN AWAY at how badly the Snowflakes have victimized all of my most cherished reading material. Get this; My all time fav kids book 'A Fly Went By' has been totally demonized because (1.) There is a man with a gun (2.) The fox thinks the man wants to kill him. (3.) The fox actually uses the word 'KILL' & (4.) The boy threatens to 'whip' an animal for chasing a baby calf. I can not freaking believe this! Multiple reviews said that there were messages of violence throughout the whole book, that they parents were mortified, it disgusted them, ruined their whole day, they were traumatized & even that its racist.... WTH???

Would you believe that Hop on Pop "encourages bad behavior". One Fish, Two Fish & Go Dog Go are "random jibber jabber." Green Eggs & Ham "Encourages children to say I don't like things" & is "creepy" because it "exhibits extreme lack of respect for individual boundaries & a persons ability to say no." Sam was also referred to as "a dealer pushing something on someone for free to get them addicted to it." Are You My Mother is a "terrible child abandonment story" & has "no respect for foster, adopted, or interracial families where parents don't always look like their children." I can only assume that Put Me In The Zoo is encouraging caged animals preform in captivity & Fish Out of Water is a fat shamming book.

I could go on all night, but dinner just walked thru the door. Suffice it to say, I'm frustrated!!! I was raised on these books, raised a generation of nieces & nephews on these books & even raised my own kids on them. Whats next? Burning AA Milne books?

"BABY ITS COLD OUTSIDE....."

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Although I can't say that his dad isn't making that story up.
Just so HE has an excuse NOT to have to deal with it.
He's about the laziest ......
You know it sucks cuz I live in such a great place.... One person can screw it up.
The past several months have been so peaceful.....

Yep. I know the feeling. One bad neighbor can make everyone around them miserable. Our new neighbors have been great. Knock on wood it says that way!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Snowflakes ruin everything!
There was even a big ordeal about the Christmas song "baby it's cold outside" one of my favorites. They claimed it was insinuating date rape with the use of roofies because of the line "say whats in this drink?"

The whole POINT of the song is that she actually WANTED to stay.. . But is thinking about the moral or social consequences. Saying hey what's in this drink was her trying to figure out a way to give herself and excuse to stay.

Dang I replied before I read your post....

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Yep. I know the feeling. One bad neighbor can make everyone around them miserable. Our new neighbors have been great. Knock on wood it says that way!

He's not really a nieghbor... That is the problem.
He just moved into his dad's old abandoned trailer... And sets up a meth lab.... Then last summer four campers showed up and they "Camped out" all summer... One of the campers is still there... No one knows who owns it.

 

[WVduckchick]

He's not really a nieghbor... That is the problem.
He just moved into his dad's old abandoned trailer... And sets up a meth lab.... Then last summer four campers showed up and they "Camped out" all summer... One of the campers is still there... No one knows who owns it.

I’d be tempted to burn it down myself. They’d just think their meth caused it.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Dang I replied before I read your post....

Great minds think alike

He's not really a nieghbor... That is the problem.
He just moved into his dad's old abandoned trailer... And sets up a meth lab.... Then last summer four campers showed up and they "Camped out" all summer... One of the campers is still there... No one knows who owns it.

Ya, more like a squatter in your situation. Dang I wish you could get rid of them for good.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I’d be tempted to burn it down myself. They’d just think their meth caused it.

I was gonna say the same thing
Problem is if there is meth in there I've heard that stuff can really explode. Might blow up more than just their place

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Can I stand on my soapbox a minute?

I've been on a mission to buy my great-nieces/nephews little kid books after visiting them a few months ago & realizing they have none. They live out of state & so once a month I pick a new one from Amazon to be shipped out. The books I pick are all well read favorites of mine, but I still read the negative reviews because some of them are badly printed, damaged or edited, etc...

I am BLOWN AWAY at how badly the Snowflakes have victimized all of my most cherished reading material. Get this; My all time fav kids book 'A Fly Went By' has been totally demonized because (1.) There is a man with a gun (2.) The fox thinks the man wants to kill him. (3.) The fox actually uses the word 'KILL' & (4.) The boy threatens to 'whip' an animal for chasing a baby calf. I can not freaking believe this! Multiple reviews said that there were messages of violence throughout the whole book, that they parents were mortified, it disgusted them, ruined their whole day, they were traumatized & even that its racist.... WTH???

Would you believe that Hop on Pop "encourages bad behavior". One Fish, Two Fish & Go Dog Go are "random jibber jabber." Green Eggs & Ham "Encourages children to say I don't like things" & is "creepy" because it "exhibits extreme lack of respect for individual boundaries & a persons ability to say no." Sam was also referred to as "a dealer pushing something on someone for free to get them addicted to it." Are You My Mother is a "terrible child abandonment story" & has "no respect for foster, adopted, or interracial families where parents don't always look like their children." I can only assume that Put Me In The Zoo is encouraging caged animals preform in captivity & Fish Out of Water is a fat shamming book.

I could go on all night, but dinner just walked thru the door. Suffice it to say, I'm frustrated!!! I was raised on these books, raised a generation of nieces & nephews on these books & even raised my own kids on them. Whats next? Burning AA Milne books?

Snowflakes!!

Snowflakes ruin everything!
There was even a big ordeal about the Christmas song "baby it's cold outside" one of my favorites. They claimed it was insinuating date rape with the use of roofies because of the line "say whats in this drink?"

The whole POINT of the song is that she actually WANTED to stay.. . But is thinking about the moral or social consequences. Saying hey what's in this drink was her trying to figure out a way to give herself and excuse to stay.

Exactly!
I LOVE that song.. bunch of idiots.

I’d be tempted to burn it down myself. They’d just think their meth caused it.

X2

Good morning Pond
I'll be out this afternoon. 70th birthday party for my mom..
And its warm and sunny today!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

All the same things were said, in the vernacular of the times, about rock 'n roll in the 50's. If people try hard enough, they can always find something to pick on in any musical genre. There will always be busy-bodies, trouble-makers, & goodie-two-shoes with too much time on their hands.

Yeah but now they are running people's lives over stupid things that they may have posted when they were teenagers.... Or things that were fairly normal at the times..... Snowflakes came realized that times have changed and so have people..... They want to proceed in prosicute people for things that they did in the past that was normal or common at the time.... Not realizing that people changes.
It's kinda like going after someone because their great great great grandfather had slaves....