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[sourland]

I finally found a rack for all of the fishing poles.... on the ceiling!

So rock awesome!


Yep... all fishing poles, up on the ceiling!

Now there is more wall space for the guns, helmets, dog leashes and ice cleats!!

Necessity is the mother of invention. 'Al', you rock.

 

[chickisoup]

We drove out to the country yesterday for bread & a Christmas tree. Now comes the annual, frustrating event of shuffling everything to find room on the broom for it. Maybe if I put the sofa on the roof & one of the kids beds in the kitchen & tv in the hall.....

I can soooooooooo relate!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

O. M. G.
This turned out amazing.

 

[WVduckchick]

O. M. G.
This turned out amazing.
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They appear to approve!

 

[drumstick diva]

Fantastic but, it has cats in it

 

[shawluvsbirds]

They appear to approve!

Dil approves too. I said if she didn't I was going to wring her little neck

 

[Pyxis]

I have a random story to tell that I just thought of tonight when I saw a picture someone posted of catching an opossum in a live trap.

So several years ago I was in Pennsylvania with my (now ex) boyfriend, visiting his family. One of his grandmothers runs a wildlife rescue, and this was in early summer so right in the middle of the baby animal boom. I was in heaven, and his grandmother and I got on very well. I was helping take care of the orphaned animals, so I was bottle-feeding deer, squirrels, etc. It was great. There were some sad moments too, like when we lost a baby deer that a family brought in after stealing it out of the wild and then taking bad care of it for a few days until it was on death's door. By the time it came in it was too late.

But even with that, I was having a lot of fun. In addition to the wildlife, she was also trying to open a small zoo animal sanctuary, which she would allow people to pay to visit to help fund the center.

There were parrots, lemurs, apes and monkeys (I got groomed by a Barbary macaque), reptiles including an alligator that I got to hold, and even a little baby wallaby that I got to take care of while I was there, carrying her around in her 'pouch' and feeding her her bottles, etc.

Anyway, one night I was helping a volunteer with the evening animal chores, and we open the back door to the center and there's a tiny little baby opossum there. No parent in sight, just a little baby. At first we thought one of the ones we already had had somehow gotten out and wandered off. Nope, they were all accounted for. So of course we took this new one in.

So this little abandoned baby opossum somehow found the center, and we opened the door and there the little thing was, tiny teeth bared at us, scared, but it was where it needed to be if it was to survive. And it wasn't in a box anything either, so it's not like someone decided to just drop it off, not to mention this was the back door and there was no public access to the center anyway.

That's the most coincidental thing that's ever happened to me.

 

[sourland]

@Pyxis, "There are no coincidences - only providences."

 

[room onthebroom]

I have a random story to tell that I just thought of tonight when I saw a picture someone posted of catching an opossum in a live trap.

So several years ago I was in Pennsylvania with my (now ex) boyfriend, visiting his family. One of his grandmothers runs a wildlife rescue, and this was in early summer so right in the middle of the baby animal boom. I was in heaven, and his grandmother and I got on very well. I was helping take care of the orphaned animals, so I was bottle-feeding deer, squirrels, etc. It was great. There were some sad moments too, like when we lost a baby deer that a family brought in after stealing it out of the wild and then taking bad care of it for a few days until it was on death's door. By the time it came in it was too late.

But even with that, I was having a lot of fun. In addition to the wildlife, she was also trying to open a small zoo animal sanctuary, which she would allow people to pay to visit to help fund the center.

There were parrots, lemurs, apes and monkeys (I got groomed by a Barbary macaque), reptiles including an alligator that I got to hold, and even a little baby wallaby that I got to take care of while I was there, carrying her around in her 'pouch' and feeding her her bottles, etc.

Anyway, one night I was helping a volunteer with the evening animal chores, and we open the back door to the center and there's a tiny little baby opossum there. No parent in sight, just a little baby. At first we thought one of the ones we already had had somehow gotten out and wandered off. Nope, they were all accounted for. So of course we took this new one in.

So this little abandoned baby opossum somehow found the center, and we opened the door and there the little thing was, tiny teeth bared at us, scared, but it was where it needed to be if it was to survive. And it wasn't in a box anything either, so it's not like someone decided to just drop it off, not to mention this was the back door and there was no public access to the center anyway.

That's the most coincidental thing that's ever happened to me.

I love this story!!! (except for the part about the people.) I cant believe you didn't ditch the BF but keep the grandma.

 

[Pyxis]

I love this story!!! (except for the part about the people.) I cant believe you didn't ditch the BF but keep the grandma.

Haha, the BF and I are still friends. We broke up due to compatibility issues. She is transgender now and is living as a woman, and you can see how that wouldn't work for me, lol.

I'd go and visit but sadly her grandmother is in the end of life now in the hospital She has cancer. I may end up inheriting one of her parrots when she passes. There was actually briefly talk of me inheriting the entire center since no one else in her family is interested, but I didn't want to move and leave all my family.