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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 18 2006, 01:10 PM Post #41 |
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Yup, it gets downright ridiculous. The instances are widely varied ... from stinking pigs (the smell oh my the smell) to racetracks (the noise oh my the noise) to military bases (the noise oh my the noise). This last one gets me and it keeps arising several times every year. People say that "Nobody told me that Quantico was actually a real Marine Corps base and that they would actually set off big explosions". I sometimes wonder how these people have managed to live to an age where they could actually purchase a house ANYPLACE. Love the sounds of freedom and they will NEVER be an imposition!!! |
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| beachroses | Dec 18 2006, 01:17 PM Post #42 |
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They do training flights over us all the time and we love it!!!!!!!!! Makes us feel really proud. One of them buzzed us, once, flying in real low. My husband was out by himself on the water windsurfing and I was laying out on the bank in the sun in my bathing suit. Hubbie said, "Did you see that guy buzz me?" I said, "Buzz you? I think he was buzzing ME, LOLOL!" As Charlie would say, "What do you think?"
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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 18 2006, 03:21 PM Post #43 |
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Methinks you were correct!!!
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| bsb006 | Dec 18 2006, 03:32 PM Post #44 |
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I have a funny story about this. We in Cancun, Mexico on our honeymoon in 1990. We took one of those deep sea fishing trips. My ex-husband (mr. macho) gets sea sick and begins relieving himself in the bathroom. The young man (about 14 yrs old) says "I'll help him" Gives him this bottle that has been on deck all day. My husband (now ex) chugs it and immediately returns to the little bathroom. It was boiling hot tequila. He starts laughing (so did I because my ex was a real butt hole on this entire boat ride!) After we got off the boat, I told him what happened and reminded him NOT TO MESS WITH THE LOCALS!!!! If I had told him on the boat, we would've spent much time visiting the local jail, I am sure. |
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| countrymouse | Dec 18 2006, 05:09 PM Post #45 |
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yeah, we got that here bigtime! some farmers are doing the voluntary ag district but most are just sellin' out...our house is in what used to be a farming town and my fiance had a pet goat before the infiltration of citified type people...now granted we're right downtown, but still there were never any ordinances passed prohibiting anything other than horses, cows and pigs in the downtown area...so we have kept some sheep, chickens, miniature pony, alpacas, miniature bull (only while he was bottle feeding), cats, dogs and at one time a partridge in the pear tree ...well, we had these neighbors, 2 sisters who were just bitter about life as it was and man every time we turned around they were trying to get us in trouble...this went on for 3 very long years...we made great new friends with the animal control, town police department, town commisioners, the magistrate...am i forgetting anyone? this woman would get up at 5 a.m. and let her dogs out...they were little dogs and they yapped A LOT and they would make a bee line for the fence and bark...so our dogs would respond...then this woman would take her dogs back in the house and call the police to say our dogs had woken her up! another time i had bought a pair of bantam chickens and had brought them to the house before i carried them out to the farm...well this little rooster crowed, because yes, that's what roosters do...but a bantam crow is nothing like a regular sized chicken's crow...it would crack me up to listen to this little guy! anyway, this happened 3 days in a row so again, 5:30 am i get a wake up call from the police...well, not only did i get a ticket, but i actually had to go to court!! i was so nervous! i'd never been to court before and had no idea what to expect with this particular situation...so i get up there in front of the judge and the police officer who gave me the ticket and the judge calls us up to the podium (is that what you call it?) and i was literally shaking...so the judge looks at the ticket and proceeds to tell us a story about when he was in college and how he had a pet rooster and that the rooster would crow every morning and every evening...then he sees that this was the third time the rooster had crowed...so then he starts retelling the story in Mathew where Jesus says to Peter, "the truth is, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." so then the judge asks me if the rooster has a name so i leaned back and looked at the judge's name plate and i said, "Bailey"...the roosters name is "Bailey"...the judge says to me, that's "Judge Kris Bailey, with a "K" and i'll be on the november ballot and your case is dismissed! so, that is how my rooster got his name and got to keep his home! so this is the kinda stuff we endured for 3 years and then we came home one night and there was a for sale sign in front of the neighbors house! now we have happy, peaceful, animal loving hippie neighbors to one side of us and a cemetery to the other...now if the dearly departed start raisin' a raucus we're in serious trouble!!! :lol:
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| legitlinda | Dec 18 2006, 05:44 PM Post #46 |
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That rooster story is funny. I don't mind animals when they live where they're supposed to live, but don't go bringing no rooster into suburbs please. When we first moved out here from New York I woke up to this strange sound that I had only heard on the television. :lol: I jumped out of bed thinking what the heck is that? Sounds like a rooster! Where's that coming from? It turns out the old man next door had chickens and roosters. Oh man we thought we would go crazy! Somebody finally convinced him that he didn't need a rooster for the chicken to lay eggs and he got rid of it, took a couple of years though. ![]() Footnote: We moved into a development in the suburbs, not out in the country. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 18 2006, 05:56 PM Post #47 |
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: LOVE IT!!! |
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| Almtnman | Dec 18 2006, 06:05 PM Post #48 |
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That was an interesting story countrymouse especially about the rooster. I live out in the country, bought this place about 8 years ago and built a house on it for my retirement place. I have a loooong driveway and very secluded. We have 3 dogs and a bunch of cats, most of the cats were strays that we took in. My wife wanted some chickens, so we got some biddies and raised them. They are Rhode Island Reds and some Buffs (Buffingtons). We like the Buffs better and would like to trade the reds for some more Buffs. Anyway out of the biddies two turned out to be roosters and now all of them are full grown. We get about 7 to 8 eggs a day from the chickens and furnish friends with plenty of eggs because we don't eat that many a day for ourselves. Anyway, these two roosters like to start crowing about 4:30am every morning and I have to finally get up, fill my coffee mug and head to the computer to see what has been posted during the night. I told my wife that we really didn't need the roosters, but she seems to think they are all pets now and won't let them go. The other day one of the Buffs that had an injury and we are taking care of it was out in the back scratching around and I was to watch it until we put it back in it's cage. Anyway, I was sitting there and all of a sudden a big Red Tailed hawk zooms down and hits the chicken full force and tries to fly off with it. I ran out and yelled and the hawk let go and flew up and landed in a tree. I ran over and yelled again and the hawk flew off. We got worried about the other chickens we have in a big pen out back, so we went to the building supply and bought a couple of rolls of dog wire, some treated lumber and spent the entire day building a fenced in top over the pen. It's like a giagantic cage now and the hawks in the day and the owls at night can no longer get to them. I figure we now have a small fortune tied up in these 17 chickens, but it's all worth it just to live in a place where no-one says a thing about it. I would like to sleep a little later though. So if you see me on here very early in the morning's that why, the roosters have woke me up. :lol: |
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| countrymouse | Dec 18 2006, 06:40 PM Post #49 |
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almtnman, i understand how everything becomes a pet and not being able to give 'em up...we have two guard roosters right now...one's a rhode island the other a dominique and they are mean as snakes! i've begged my brother in law to let me cook 'em, but he's "attached" to them now...he let his little boy feed them out of his pockets so they have no fear of humans and actually run up pecking at your pockets! these roosters have taken it upon themselves to guard our sheep though so i guess i shouldn't complain too much! one of my favorite breeds of chicken is actually the aracauna...they lay colored eggs...i've got one right now that lays blue eggs...had one once that laid pink eggs and another that laid green eggs...so y'all know the story of green eggs & ham, right?! as long as it's not green ham & eggs, dig in!! i like the rhode islands and the dominiques too because they're very hardy...don't have any experience with buffs...tried polish one time...ya know all the polish jokes? they apply to chickens as well! dumbest bird i ever tried to raise! had them in the yard (in a pen) and they would literally watch one go through the fence, get eaten by the dog and then the next would follow suit :huh:...that was also after i lost about 1/2 of them because they got narcoleptic and would just pass out in their water dish and drowned! you know what we had good success with? we raised turkeys along side our chickens...we free ranged and we noticed that the chickens would stay close to the turkeys...whenever a hawk would come around, the chickens would duck up under the turkeys...very smart and we never lost a chicken to a hawk... i very much look forward to the day we're living out in the country...we have land with about a 2 mile driveway goin' back to it...just no house yet...we camp out there a lot though and just love it! the owls, the beavers, the deer, the wild ducks, it's just so peaceful and rejuvenating! |
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| Almtnman | Dec 18 2006, 06:58 PM Post #50 |
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I think the Buffs are actually called Buff Orpington. Here's a pic of what they look like. they also lay brown eggs just like the Rhode Island Reds do, except their eggs are just a tad lighter in color. The Buff Orpington chickens are getting to be very popular around here. Everyone wants to trade theirs for some of the Buffs. ![]()
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| countrymouse | Dec 18 2006, 07:53 PM Post #51 |
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how are their "chickenalities"...are they a more docile bird? |
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| Almtnman | Dec 18 2006, 08:05 PM Post #52 |
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They seem to be more docile than the Rhode Island Reds. Here's a link with the history of them. http://www.easternplains.com/orpington%20history.htm |
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| countrymouse | Dec 21 2006, 09:41 AM Post #53 |
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linda, i went to visit a friend in brooklyn one time and the morning after the first night i was there i got woke up by this cooing 'cuz it's a sound i'm not accustomed to...i'm in that space between not quite being awake but not really asleep either so at first i was like, what in the world is that and where in the world am i?! so, i realize i'm in ny and they have pigeons and i was sleeping right next to a window so there must be pigeons on the ledge...try to go back to sleep...can't sleep 'cuz the pigeons won't shut up! so i'm gettin' pretty p.o.'d at these darn pigeons! finally, i get up and go to the window, look out the curtain and there's no pigeons to be found ?!?! so then i realize it's my friend's alarm clock!!! man, i was really ticked!!! why the hell would someone in ny want to have an alarm clock that made that sound?! what, do ny alarm clocks come with "nature sound" selections like "fire alarm", "police siren", "gun fire", "men yellin' at each other", just open the darn window!! :lol: |
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| beachroses | Dec 21 2006, 09:54 AM Post #54 |
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You guys bringing up chickens reminded me of this charity who buys farm animals and helps train families in third world countries to raise them and start a business, so they can get on their feet and make a living. The concept of teaching a man/woman to fish, rather than just giving them one to eat... so we donated $20 to buy a flock of chicks for a family for Christmas. The charity is heifer.org, they also have goats, pigs, cattle, geese, bees, water buffalo, llamas, etc. I think it's a really great idea.
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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 21 2006, 10:55 AM Post #55 |
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Llama 'farming' is becoming fairly popular in Virginia. More and more I see them critters in the fields during my travels. Reminds me of years ago when I worked for the telephone company and had some work to do for a Vetinarian who lived/worked out in the country. He would allow his Llamas to roam free at the time and it happened that he also had a construction company doing other work for him on this fateful day. About six blacks were trying to start a trencher and having a ton of troubles. One of the Llamas wandered over to watch amongst the workers. One of the guys decides to prime the carburator on the trencher and pours in some gas ... too much gas ... when he hit the ignition the motor backfired and threw out a ball of flame which lit up the Llama. The brightly flaming Llama panics (wouldn't you?) and begins running around the fields with six black workers from the construction company in 'hot' pursuit. I was rolling in laughter, as were a couple of other people witnessing this fiasco. They eventually cornered the Llama and smothered the fire. Amazingly, the Llama was not injured in any way but by pride. The next time I drove out to the vets he had a sign on the half-mile long driveway, "Do not ignite the Llama" :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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| Condor | Dec 21 2006, 11:16 AM Post #56 |
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That was funny! Llamas are pretty intelligent and like to mix with people. I can just see it happen. |
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| legitlinda | Dec 21 2006, 11:46 AM Post #57 |
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hahahaha countrymouse, now I know you're messing with me....like they don't have pigeons down south... My grandfather's pet name for me was pigeon. :lol: He use to say "Come here my little pigeon".
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| beachroses | Dec 21 2006, 12:48 PM Post #58 |
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Sure glad that llama ended up okay, Dawg, that must have been a funny sight when it happened, though! Also happy to hear those guys had enough care to chase after it and put it out. Our neighbors where we used to live had a llama farm, too, they are becoming popular here in the US. Pretty animals. :lol: |
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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 21 2006, 01:07 PM Post #59 |
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Yes they are ... and also DEADLY ACCURATE when they spit!!! :lol: |
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| beachroses | Dec 21 2006, 01:51 PM Post #60 |
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I know they can really shoot some honkers, that's why I never got too close! Just wave from a distance, "Hi pretty llamas," and keep on trucking, babes. :lol: |
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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 21 2006, 03:22 PM Post #61 |
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:lol: :lol: :lol: A few days after dousing the fiery Llama, someone was visiting and wanting to take a picture. Memory is telling me it was a reporter doing a story w/pics but I may be mistaken at this time ... anyway, the photographer didn't know about the spitting. He approached the Llama and was getting ready to snap when the Llama spit and nailed the guys camera lens :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Llama was probably laffing and thinking 'revenge' !!! |
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| beachroses | Dec 21 2006, 04:28 PM Post #62 |
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Score one for the llama. :lol: |
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| countrymouse | Dec 21 2006, 06:57 PM Post #63 |
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yeah, i think i seen some pigeons 'round these parts...only in them big cities though...must've fell off the back of them nyc trucks! they're great for target practice...and ya' know linda, if i woke up to pigeons cooin' down south i'd know i was a really bad girl the night before!!!
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| countrymouse | Dec 21 2006, 07:17 PM Post #64 |
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that's a funny story! the mental image..... :lol: :lol: :lol: we had 2 llamas and one of them was soooooo mean! he weighed 'bout 350 lbs. and he'd wait till you had your back turned to 'im and he'd charge and chest bump you...the first time this happened, i was the lucky recipient and i weigh all of 100 lbs. soakin' wet so needless to say i was perty darn lucky to get away from that sob...well, i go to hollerin' and my fiance comes a runnin'...so this llama goes after my fiance but there was a fence between them...so my fiance gets right up to the fence, the llama gets right up to the fence and they commence with a spittin' contest...see, llamas extend their heads forward when they spit so when the llama came forward, dave (my fiance - i'm tired of typin' that) grabbed him around the neck and spit about 5 times right in the llamas eyes! i was rollin'! that llama was so embarrased! that was definitely one of those "i wish i had a video camera" moments... 'bout 15 minutes later, that damn llama came back for more...well, with our rams we occasionally get challenged and have to body slam them to remind them who's in charge...so we decide we're gonna have to body slam this damn llama...whoooweee what a ride!!! finally i got a leg, dave got a leg and that damn llama hit the dirt! he never did get any nicer...actually just got meaner till...ya' know i hear in south america they actually eat llama
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| Condor | Dec 21 2006, 07:48 PM Post #65 |
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We used to buy steak in the local market in la Paz. It was awfully tough. Betty would have to beat it down to almost mush to get it tender enough for the kids to eat it, let alone me and her. It was years after the assignment that we learned that those were Llama steaks! Should have figured it with all the Llama fur stuff they sold in the market. |
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| TG'sGirl | Dec 21 2006, 09:17 PM Post #66 |
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You fellers ain't the only yanks, even if I were able (and I definately want to) move down around Dixie, well, I got me some problems with heat, and I'm a livin here up north. Ma talks often O' the South, sometimes I just wanna cry I wanna leave here so bad! Every time I see a pic or vid of a mountain, or of wild horse heards, I just wanna fly away and join 'em. --TGG |
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| Condor | Dec 22 2006, 12:24 AM Post #67 |
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I've lived in a lot of places. The ones that were not hotter than here were Ottawa, Mexico City, La Paz, and Kiev. Here it gets pretty warm in July, August and September, but seldom over a hundred. It got just as hot in Virginia in the summer months. Here, the Spring is Late January through late june. Fall is late Sept through late December. Winter doesn't really exist but we have waves of cold spells that usually last less than a week. July, August and September, it gets between 85 and 90 a lot and you need AC in the house and the car. Up north people do inside work during the winter whereas down here, we do it in the summer. I'm not sure where you live, but having nearly 52 weekends a year that I can do anything I want to is a pretty good advantage of being here. The real downsides are the insects and the snakes. We have cats and there is no power on the face of the earth that will keep fleas outside during the warm months. Not a big problem with misquitos, but they can get bad. We are on the mountain with a good breeze most of the time and don't notice them much. There are about three species of insect here that have your house in their food chain. Heat is not really the problem down here, it is the wildlife that you get tired of fighting! |
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| countrymouse | Dec 22 2006, 07:21 AM Post #68 |
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condor, how fortunate to have the opportunity to see so much of the world! there aren't many places outside of the u.s. that i have a great desire to travel to, but bolivia is definitely one of them...did you go to Tiahuanaco or Titikaka Lake while you were there? southern summer heat ...the older i get the less i like it! i think back when i was younger, it'd be in the 90's by 9 a.m., i'd get up, ride my bike 8 miles to the beach, play beach volleyball all day long, ride the 8 miles back home and hardly notice it...now in the summer it's either up and done with work by 10 a.m., siesta till 5 or 6 p.m. then back to work or it'll just have to wait till fall ...with all the outdoor work we do though, we don't do a/c...it's much harder on the body to expose it to such changes in temperature...the skeeter is florida's state bird :rolleyes: ...i think we build up resistance to those boogers over time though...i had a friend in college who i used to do photo expeditions down to the everglades with...we'd go wandering through the swamps and he'd come out covered in whelps from the skeeters and i'd come out without a bite! it's the sugar ants & the biting flies that drive me bonkers! :angry:
have you tried frontline plus? i have found that to be the best product on the market and now most of the feed supply stores carry it...i get the package for xtra large dogs and then break down the dosage for whatever animal i'm applying it to...it saves a lot of $$ that way...as long as the cats are allowed to come and go from the house, they'll pick up the fleas from inside, the fleas go to feed and that's all she wrote...if the cats stay outdoors, you can sprinkle good ol' fashion borax laundry detergent on the floors of your home, leave for 15-30 minutes then vacuum...this works especially well with a carpeted room...you can do the same with pet bedding...
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| countrymouse | Dec 22 2006, 09:13 AM Post #69 |
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ok...i got a zillion animal stories so if y'all get sick of hearin' 'em, just tell me :rolleyes: we spent a year camping at one of our projects and we'd come back to the house occasionally to make sure it was still standing...well, we have an old house (built at the turn of the century) and even though we're in the "city" we still don't lock our doors or anything...we actually keep the doors and windows open most of the time to keep the air movin' through and all... also, with having sheep, chickens, dogs, cats, etc. and being in a "city", our house is sort of the wildlife sanctuary in town...we've got these really cool gnat catchers that live in one of our chimneys and they put on a show for us every night at dusk...it's soooo cool watching them funnel back down the chimney when they're done feeding...i do get a little annoyed at the squirrels playing "baseball" on the roof with the bradford pears and i had to rescue a baby bird not long ago that the cats brought in and when i carried it back outside, mom & dad came down on me like alred hitchcock's "the birds".... so anyway, we came back to the house one night, went to bed and when i got up the next morning, i went to get a coffee cup off the shelf (these shelves are like the wire baker's racks) and there on the shelf below was a possum! i just froze and he just froze and he's lookin' at me like what the hell are you doin' here & i'm lookin' at him like what the hell are you doin' here and it was a total mexican standoff... i decided the best thing to do was just slowly back away and he'd find his way out the open back door...so he finally climbs down off the shelf and scurries across the kitchen floor, right past the open door and behind the washing machine! i'd say this critter had made himself right at home... i figured that with all of us in the house, he'd get scared and leave...it actually took him about 2 weeks to finally move out! and even then i think he just moved into the crawl space under the house! how's the saying go, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!" Heifer Project International - this is a great project so i thought i'd post it again! |
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| countrymouse | Dec 22 2006, 09:32 AM Post #70 |
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| greatwhiteelkhunter | Dec 22 2006, 09:39 AM Post #71 |
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Condor I have been to Spain about 100 times and each time was better then the last. One time in Rota we took a bus to another city about 40minutes away. We went to a bull fight that lasted many hours. We drank many beers, and then started on the Sangria Well after the fight was over some of the locals were heading around this corner so we followed them to a restaurant.It was not a big place but a big line!! Sp we waited as we needed food. We got in and it was a steak house. GREAT!! The food was GREAT!! More beers and charred med rare steaks were great. WELL it was later we talk to the waitress who could speak English and she said they only serve fresh steaks! In fact just that day my steak was running around in the bull rink!!! WHAT?????? No kidding she said they served steaks from the bulls who LOST the fight She seemed serious but with the sangria in us we didn't care |
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| beachroses | Dec 22 2006, 10:23 AM Post #72 |
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TG's Girl... "If you see your neighbor carrying something, help him with his load, and don't go mistaking Paradise for that home across the road." Bob Dylan Do the best you can with what you have to work with and don't waste time pining for what you don't have. Just act like yourself and stay sincere, then you will find your own true path in life. You don't know what God has in store for you, but it's often not what we imagine it to be. Be like a river and go with the flow, girl. North, South, East or West... America is what I love best!! |
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| Condor | Dec 22 2006, 11:31 AM Post #73 |
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I never went to the bull fights in Mexico City, but heard that they did that there too. Sounds like a good way to use the meat to me. I didn't go to the fights simply because of the crowds. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Dec 22 2006, 12:04 PM Post #74 |
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Countrymouse, now that WOULD have been a great video!!!! |
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| Condor | Dec 22 2006, 12:06 PM Post #75 |
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I am happy to report that I did spend a lot of time at and in Lake Titikaka and at Tiahuanaco while I was there. Bolivia is one of the best places we have lived. It was wonderfully diverse in opportunities for outdoor activity. If you remember the guy that brought the Ice Princess mummy back from Peru in 1995, he is or was a close friend while I was in Bolivia. We did a lot of diving in Lake Titikaka and a lot of climbing to reach peaks that had been used as sacrificial sites. The diving was challenging because we had to draft our own diving tables. No one had ever really done scuba at that altitude before except some Japanese divers. We were looking for sacrificial religious relics of the Tiahuanaco civilization. Joe Reinhard I have to admit to being a little disappointed in Joe. After la Paz, we sent four years in Ottawa and then moved to Arlington, VA. My daughter was in her sneior year of high school there and Joe was going to be in town. I tried to contact him and request that he could a short show and tell for her class and he never even returned my calls. When we knew him, he was living with a Foreign Service Secretary and using her vehicle to do his work. Never have seen her name mentioned either. How soon they forget! I know that this sounds a little farfetched as do some of my stories, but I have documentation of anything I say. In this case, I have 8mm videos of some of our climbs and dives. I wonder if I could sell them? I certainly need to convert them to MPEG4 don't I? We haven't had the best of luck with Frontline and haven't tried the Borax. That is something we will try. My daughter makes up mixtures of oils to spritz the beds and such with that seems to keep them at bay. I sort of hate to put stuff on the cats because they clean themselves and each other constantly. Anything we put on them is sure to be digested. |
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| Condor | Dec 22 2006, 12:08 PM Post #76 |
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We keep everything pretty tight to keep coons and possums out. I love them to death, but they can be pretty nasty if you get them cornered. Possums have mean teeth! |
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| beachroses | Dec 22 2006, 03:41 PM Post #77 |
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I used to date a bullfighter from Mexico City, but I've never been to one or to Mexico. Don't think I plan on going there anytime in the near future, either. Wouldn't mind going to Spain, though. Always wanted to go to Ireland, too, GWEH said he and his wife are planning a trip there. They have this castle with a cooking school in it where they teach how to make Irish peasant bread. Dream trip of mine, probably will never get there, but it's fun thinking about it. |
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| countrymouse | Dec 23 2006, 10:36 AM Post #78 |
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tg's girl, listen to mama roses! wise woman... the only thing i'd add is travel as much as you can, listen more than you speak and always be open to and take advantage of opportunities that come your way...don't be afraid to ask for what you want and truly the best way to feel better when you're feeling down is by helping someone else out... live, love, laugh!!! |
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| countrymouse | Dec 23 2006, 10:58 AM Post #79 |
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we went to cozumel and playa del carmen on a cruise once...i really enjoyed it, but at the same time it's always a bit surreal going to a "third world" environment like that...it really pissed me off to step off the ship and be immediately surrounded by children selling stuff...they run up barefoot, tattered clothing, dirty faces looking up at you through puppy dog eyes...all i could think was how dare parents train children to be street pushers! :angry: yeah, i felt sorry for these kids, but it didn't make me want to buy anything...that just encourages the parents to continue the abuse! hey, i'm all for kids working....i think that's a huge part of the problems we have in this country, our kids are not trained to work for what they want, they're just given handouts and what does that teach them about "real life"...but to put kids in a position of basically begging on the streets?! just ain't right!!! my stepson is a senior in college and he and some of his frat brothers went to cancun last year for spring break....about 4 am we get a text message that says, "being robbed by the mexican police, cancel my credit cards!" we were unable to make any other contact after that...we spent most of the next day calling the us consulate, frat parents, hotels, etc...finally, the following evening we were able to track him down and get the lowdown on what happened... he & his brothers had been out partying the night before and he had left the bar alone (stupid!) to return to their hotel...he climbed in the backseat of a taxi which was promptly pulled over by the mexican police...my stepson was promptly placed in the backseat of the cop car and driven to an atm machine and told to empty his bank account....he did so, gave the money to the police and they drove away, leaving him to walk back to his hotel... that was not a pleasant experience, but i think he learned a good lesson and God blessed him that that was the worst thing that happened to him! |
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| Condor | Dec 23 2006, 11:16 AM Post #80 |
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I traveled most of Mexico on a Diplomatic passport and wouldn't have any other way. I tell people not to visit Mexico and if they do to stay in the resorts. If you get into a car accident, the Mexican police will just arrest everyone involved and no one gets out until everything to include them have been paid. You can be held without being charged in Mexico for fourteen months! They do not feed prisoners in the jails, that is left to the family or to outside charity groups. The Embassy and Consulates will provide you with minimal food, and vitamins if you are in a Mexican jail. If you are female and attractive, they will also provide birth control pills - you will need them! When I left Mexico, we had more than 200 American citizens incarcarated along the northern border of Mexico that hadn't been charged. I spoke to one family that were trying to get their 18 year old daughter out of a prison in northern Mexico. She had been in there for a year. She was kept in a hole in the ground shaped like an inverted funnel with an iron grate on the top. When it rained, the hole got very wet, sometimes knee deep. When she got food (the guards fed her), ti was in the same bucket that was lowered for her waste. The only time she got out ot the hole was when the guards were having a party. Our government does very little or nothing and won't publish the truth because of trade ties with Mexico and Mexicos fear of ruining the American tourist industry for them. I see liberals on various forums that complain about the administration and none of them ever complain about the things that our government (over several administrations) actually does that hurts our citizens. When I see that, I know that they are posting in ignorance. |
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i was so nervous! i'd never been to court before and had no idea what to expect with this particular situation...
now we have happy, peaceful, animal loving hippie neighbors to one side of us and a cemetery to the other...now if the dearly departed start raisin' a raucus we're in serious trouble!!! :lol:





My grandfather's pet name for me was pigeon. :lol: He use to say "Come here my little pigeon".
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