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[Fields Mountain Farm]

So now history is offensive?

Sad... Just sad.

I agree! And it's gonna get worse before it gets better!

 

[Pork Pie]

Funny that after a few hundred years, physical remains of conflict/colonial rule are celebrated. There's many cities in England that would be nothing if not for our Roman history

 

[bobbi-j]

I am still suspicious the news made that up. It doesn't seem possible for anyone to be that whiny or sensitive.

Somehow, I think I'd feel better if it were made up...

So now history is offensive?

Sad... Just sad.

Yes - history is hard to deal with. So if we can erase it, it never happened, right?

 

[bobbi-j]

I am still suspicious the news made that up. It doesn't seem possible for anyone to be that whiny or sensitive.

Somehow, I think I'd feel better if it were made up...

So now history is offensive?

Sad... Just sad.

Yes - history is hard to deal with. So if we can erase it, it never happened, right?

 

[WVduckchick]

Good news on a Thursday morning? (Okay, here it's morning, so work with me.)
1. Thankful, yet again, that we made all the rooster coops west facing (not planned) - so they are 5-5:30 crowers instead of...
2. Our seriously brutal summer (temps in the hundred teens frequently) seems to be ebbing a bit now - got down to a balmy 68 degrees last night. Gonna have to break out the long johns.
3. A lady wants to buy 18 "barnyard mix" eggs from me...definitely better price than selling them for eating!

And #4 -- you are AWESOME again today!!

I have 3 eggs in my incubator from my golden comet covered by my frizzle rooster. Talk about a barnyard mix!

Not sure why, but I read "pork tractor" High time I started on the good stuff, me thinks

Pork on the brain.

Or put the good stuff down and grab some coffee..

My pot just announced coffee is ready!

Some are more practiced in such matters than others

I'm not one of those.

I don't cook much.

You bring home the bacon. He can cook it!

My sons have been pretty easy - the daughter... when she was a sophomore I quit my job, pulled her out of school, and radically changed the way I was raising her. (Kind of late, I know - I just really thought I could get by doing what I did for the boys.) It was one of the hardest,best things I've ever done. And hey, we started raising chickens together! Chickens, once again, for the win!

I thought my job was ending, so I started raising chickens. Now I'm working 2 jobs instead (for real - 4 if you count the chickens)

No rules against climbing on top of a near totaled van and trying to stay on whilst your crazy relative rammed against various objects in the yard...

At least your childhood is still easy to remember, it wasn't as long ago as most of ours!

Yep the difference between a pick pocket and an Gynecologist.... One snatches watches...

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Funny that after a few hundred years, physical remains of conflict/colonial rule are celebrated. There's many cities in England that would be nothing if not for our Roman history

I'm not sure I follow, can you clarify?
Remember, sometimes I don't get the tone of a comment well!

 

[Chaos18]

Watches.... sumptin....

 

[Pork Pie]

I'm not sure I follow, can you clarify?
Remember, sometimes I don't get the tone of a comment well!

Let me try. Conflict/war/colonial rule leaves a bitter taste to the victims, but not forever . At some point it becomes an integral and accepted part of who we are today and in many ways is celebrated. Thus, perceived symbols of oppression/struggle today, will simply become imbibed into the tapestry that makes us who we, in the furture.

In South Africa, for example a number of monuments refelecting Boer rule (and Cecil Rhodes, for that matter) have been pulled down and understandably, for now. It may be regretted in a couple of hundred years as they will have lost the physical history of where they came from and what they have become.

And please, I implore you - keep any such intellectual gymnastic-related issues to before Gordon's o'clock

 

[WVduckchick]

Let me try. Conflict/war/colonial rule leaves a bitter taste to the victims, but not forever . At some point it becomes an integral and accepted part of who we are today and in many ways is celebrated. Thus, perceived symbols of oppression/struggle today, will simply become imbibed into the tapestry that makes us who we, in the furture.

In South Africa, for example a number of monuments refelecting Boer rule (and Cecil Rhodes, for that matter) have been pulled down and understandably, for now. It may be regretted in a couple of hundred years as they will have lost the physical history of where they came from and what they have become.

And please, I implore you - keep any such intellectual gymnastic-related issues at before Gordon's o'clock

 

[Pork Pie]

Gosh, just seen an alert from a new member called "mary huff" - yep - "hairy muff" was what my mind saw