Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank
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Oh Amy!
I'm so sorry.
Yeah, he's not that reliable about passing info back and forth....
Sharing a bed with a full grown emu just sounds scary!
I am super stoked I got a pair too! My luck has never been that good before, lol! I woulda been happy with any genders though, but glad it is a pair...
Oh, no.... I am so very sorry, Amy....
I'm actually doing OK--though I'll admit that it didn't seem really real until we told the girls. Tom didn't get home from the hospital until I-don't-know-when-but-2am-at-the-absolute-earliest (last call on my phone was 1:19am) and wanted to wait until after school to tell the girls so that they would actually be awake.
Thomas (my online convention has always been that Tom is mine, and Thomas is his father--different middle names, so Jr./Sr. doesn't actually apply) has had physical problems for longer than Tom's been alive--he was involved in a major vehicle accident that resulted in multiple shattered bones and the loss of his spleen before he and Tom's mom met, so he's been in a lot of pain--which is most likely why he was an alcoholic (though he'd earned at least his 12 year thing from AA, he'd been off the wagon the last few years, and especially the last couple). The lack of a spleen is actually the thing that saved his life a decade and a half ago--he was shot right where it should've been, and, had it been there, he would've bled out by the time the ambulance arrived. Turns out spleens are blood storage and have something to do with the immune system (I bet @FridayYet (FridayYet, FridayYet) would know...) Anyway, he's been saying for years that he wasn't going to be alive much longer--rather insistent about it, in fact, just short of implying that he'd hurry it along. His drinking was actually hurrying it along... Most of his meds, barring the pain meds, were for symptoms that would either be nonexistant or extremely negligible if it weren't for alcohol. Anyway, I'm not going to go there (well, any farther)...
Last night, Thomas fell at the top of the stairs outside his apartment. I normally keep the ringer on my phone off, so I missed 4 calls from Patty (Tom's mom) asking for a ride to the hospital (don't know why she didn't ride along in the ambulance--I don't even know if it's normal for an adult to ride along with another adult in an ambulance). She got ahold of Tom, and he went and got her. This was... Maybe 10:30ish? Thomas died around 11. Like I said, Tom got home in the wee hours, and stayed home today. I told Gracie that Papa was staying home today because he didn't get much sleep last night, which was the truth, if not the whole truth. Faith wasn't up yet when I left this morning (she homeschools through a charter school) to take Gracie to school and to continue on to my work.
In completely unrelated news (except for the fact that mentioning work reminded me), I told the principal that i won't be back next school year because we'll be in Tennessee. I haven't had a chance to tell the teacher I work with, yet, because I haven't been able to get a moment with her with no students in earshot. I may have to text or email her, though I'd rather tell her in person... Then again, her house is about a quarter mile away--I could just watch out for her car the next time I leave the neighborhood outside of school hours and talk to her there
Oh Amy that is no fun at allOh Amy!
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
My new babies...
Anyone heard from k? @BYC910
Thinking about you. Hope you are not suffering too badly without a beer
Thinking about you. Hope you are not suffering too badly without a beer
I'm actually doing OK--though I'll admit that it didn't seem really real until we told the girls. Tom didn't get home from the hospital until I-don't-know-when-but-2am-at-the-absolute-earliest (last call on my phone was 1:19am) and wanted to wait until after school to tell the girls so that they would actually be awake.
Thomas (my online convention has always been that Tom is mine, and Thomas is his father--different middle names, so Jr./Sr. doesn't actually apply) has had physical problems for longer than Tom's been alive--he was involved in a major vehicle accident that resulted in multiple shattered bones and the loss of his spleen before he and Tom's mom met, so he's been in a lot of pain--which is most likely why he was an alcoholic (though he'd earned at least his 12 year thing from AA, he'd been off the wagon the last few years, and especially the last couple). The lack of a spleen is actually the thing that saved his life a decade and a half ago--he was shot right where it should've been, and, had it been there, he would've bled out by the time the ambulance arrived. Turns out spleens are blood storage and have something to do with the immune system (I bet @FridayYet (FridayYet, FridayYet) would know...) Anyway, he's been saying for years that he wasn't going to be alive much longer--rather insistent about it, in fact, just short of implying that he'd hurry it along. His drinking was actually hurrying it along... Most of his meds, barring the pain meds, were for symptoms that would either be nonexistant or extremely negligible if it weren't for alcohol. Anyway, I'm not going to go there (well, any farther)...
Last night, Thomas fell at the top of the stairs outside his apartment. I normally keep the ringer on my phone off, so I missed 4 calls from Patty (Tom's mom) asking for a ride to the hospital (don't know why she didn't ride along in the ambulance--I don't even know if it's normal for an adult to ride along with another adult in an ambulance). She got ahold of Tom, and he went and got her. This was... Maybe 10:30ish? Thomas died around 11. Like I said, Tom got home in the wee hours, and stayed home today. I told Gracie that Papa was staying home today because he didn't get much sleep last night, which was the truth, if not the whole truth. Faith wasn't up yet when I left this morning (she homeschools through a charter school) to take Gracie to school and to continue on to my work.
In completely unrelated news (except for the fact that mentioning work reminded me), I told the principal that i won't be back next school year because we'll be in Tennessee. I haven't had a chance to tell the teacher I work with, yet, because I haven't been able to get a moment with her with no students in earshot. I may have to text or email her, though I'd rather tell her in person... Then again, her house is about a quarter mile away--I could just watch out for her car the next time I leave the neighborhood outside of school hours and talk to her there
X2Anyone heard from k? @BYC910
Thinking about you. Hope you are not suffering too badly without a beer
I haven't seen him around in awhile..
I'm sorry Amy! 
I'm heading to bed... G'night pond folks.. 
eh... see, I was thinking of upgrading to an electric thing with a temp read out.... and the ones I looked at had more wires than the wafer.... and I froze.
that is what I was worried about... Doctoring each individual bird every day.... for how long... we did that once... I think only 2 treatment s.... didn't work. Just knocked them back.
Maybe I will pick the worst ones and do them... maybe just 3 birds every day for a week.. . but then they will pick it back up from the other birds.
Not sure what I wanna do. 
ooh! Do you like the guy? Or do we need to send out a hit squad?
Ha! Didn't even remember that. Actually the incubated eggs were only bantams... didn't treat the bantams since they were still laying and in a different coop.... ha! Wonder if they are infested ... I didn't look at them that close ... I really need kids to check for bugs. .. my eyes are too old.
Very nice! Did you stick a meaty cock over them so that you can incubate?
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