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[Alaskan]

I actually ended up speaking to my ex tonight and it seems like they've found a medicine that looks like it's going to give her at least a few more months, so she's out of the hospital for now.

Glad she is doing a bit better

 

[bobbi-j]

I posted more photos over on BYH if you want to see:

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/alaskans-journal.36781/page-66

I checked it out - quite a bunch of handsome lads you have, Al! Glad the dome is up - it's beautiful!

 

[drumstick diva]

How old is your number 2 son Alaskan?

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Ds stayed the night last night planned on deer hunting this morning with hubby. But they Didn't wake up in time.
I saw they were out in the shed this morning when I got up. . I finally meandered out there to see what kind of father son bonding they were up to. Thought maybe they were cutting up fartn and belchin talkin bout girls and cars. .ya know all That macho guy stuff.
Nope.
They is building a cat tree for (soon to be) ddils cats
I luv my guys View attachment 1604489 this is going to be awesome!
But it's going to weigh a ton

That's awesome!

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!!

Sounds like here.. everything not being used at the moment goes up high somewhere...

O. M. G.
This turned out amazing.
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Kitties like it too I take it!

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.

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.

Oh wow... what a story..

In my early 20's I was going with a guy that was a dog handler. I had known him as a mid- teenager. He was too stuck on himself to ever give me notice. Fast forward he was going with a girl and for whatever reason (probably lots smarter than I was) she married some other guy.

For spite he married some blond from Texas. Then was drafted and sent to Puerto Rico to protect our country(!) They got divorced he moved back home. Didn't realize when my family moved out of Chicago, we lived near him.

One day my mother was saying so and so is coming down the field to our house. I ran for the bedroom and hid there. Then she says he is right here and wants to see you.
I thought it was an omen. Anyway he wanted someone to be his dog show flunky, no pay but, he would show my dogs. I would have done it anyway.

We sorta dated for 3 years and he used to take me with to look at homes. He'd say things like " when we get married - you can keep your dogs," etc. My family hated him, he came over once at Thanksgiving - ate & left to go bar hopping. One of the guests at dinner later told my mother "Please don't let her marry him." They didn't have to worry.

He was supposed to be coming from from a dog show circuit. I was supposed to go over, feed, water & clean up after his dogs. I got there one day and music was blasting. He had gotten home early. I was about to do my kennel chores when he popped out of his bedroom half dressed, then right behind him was another man, less dressed.

I turned around and went back home. My head was just spinning. The phone was ringing when I got there. It was him and I told him I quit. Apparently everyone else knew he was gay. Everybody but me. He was using me to pass. He even had my photo on his tack box and had told people I was his girlfriend. It was horrible.

But, in comparison it was nowhere as bad as when my favorite dog passed away. I mourned for that dog for 9 years. I'm a lot older now and I hope a lot wiser. I gave up on the "omen" thing after that.

Dang... Im glad you didn't marry that one!

too many confessions from me on BYC this week - think I'll just wear a bag over my head.

Nah..

Dome got put up today.

Gusting winds, some rain, a little hail.

SO GLAD IT IS DONE!!!
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Very nice Al! That looks beautiful!

I actually ended up speaking to my ex tonight and it seems like they've found a medicine that looks like it's going to give her at least a few more months, so she's out of the hospital for now.

Good morning Pond Life....
The sun is shining and its 57 this morning already!!

 

[drumstick diva]

Gee I'm sorry about your ex, I thought they've been saying people don't die of HIV anymore. More fake news I guess.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Gee I'm sorry about your ex, I thought they've been saying people don't die of HIV anymore. More fake news I guess.

I missed something.. who has HIV?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I missed something.. who has HIV?

Me too I guess

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Me too I guess

I reckon we'll have to wait for her to explain...

 

[kwhites634]

N

I reckon we'll have to wait for her to explain...

Nobody has HIV. She said her ex has a boyfriend

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

N

Nobody has HIV. She said her ex has a boyfriend

Im confused...
Not enough coffee maybe..