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If I guess the Mediterranean, that covers a lot of territory. Enlarges my chances of being at least in the general vicinity. Will look and see…
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Whew.
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Ground view. 😉
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“Boat loads of fun” 😉
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Good morning all! I believe I have had a full TRUMP fix for the day, so I’m heading to bed. I think there are a couple of more (4/29/2016) soon, so I need a rest. I think I will sleep well knowing President Trump is planning our future and I love you all!
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A good scripture to remember:
“The eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth, to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.”
—2 Chronicles 16:9a—
Friday blessing to all. Take heart–God is near.
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Yes Mary, God is with all of us.
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Mornin’ kids!
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Mornin’ Wee, it’s a stormy morning here. Looks like rain will be here on and off all day and through the night.
The upside though is watching the goats, who venture out when it slows down and try to run back to the barn when it starts back up. Cracks me up to watch the fainting goats hop on their front legs when their back legs stiffen or fall over.
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Michellc, I’m spilling my coffee………laughing
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They are hilarious to watch.
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You have fainting goats? Do they have a use other than entertainment? I’ve always wondered how you’d milk one – quickly, I’d suppose. We were thinking about getting a few to help with brush control but (a) we have a lot of yaupon and the thought of caffine-charged goats and (b) my fruit trees being eaten by said hyper goats….well, you get the idea.
Once a month we have a goat aficionado meeting where you can buy goats tomyour heart’s content, more than a few from folks who’ve overestimated their huggability. The poor deluded lady who tried to housebreak one and turn it into a parlor pet comes immediately to mind.
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They are technically a meat goat and have a lot of muscle because of all their stiffening, but they grow slower than a Boer goat. However, you can milk them and we have, if you train them to a milk stand they’re no different than any other goat because they don’t faint when things don’t startle them. You’re never going to get the amount of milk that you get from a Nubian or other breed of milk goat, but we had one we used to milk twice a day and we’d get 2 quarts each milking.
Another good thing about them is they don’t climb and jump like other breeds for obvious reasons, so most trees are safe from them and they only trim up the low hanging branches. They’re also much easier on fencing than other breeds.
We’ve had all breeds of goats and they’re my favorite breed. More gentle than other breeds, rarely do you see a mean fainting goat including the bucks. More disease resistant than other breeds and for some reason they rarely have problems with worms. That’s why I refuse to ever have Nubians or Boers again, every dang month I was having to de-worm them. Even if you get one who is not overly tame and doesn’t like to be touched, it’s still easy to catch, just scare it and it either stiffens long enough for you to grab it or it falls down.
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I was just imagining criminals doing the same thing. The police yell at them and they stiffen and fall down. Would save a lot of running for the police.
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed! Just too wet after our rain, and more rain this weekend. Drinking my coffee and taking the morning off. Great cartoon!
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Gorgeous photo! Happy Friday all!
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
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(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
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Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
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Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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Mornin’!
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Mornin’!
I guess you like to be nagged. 🙂
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Just refilled your bowl. 😉
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Holy smokes. Is that sausage gravy? I think I have found the screensaver of my dreams.
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Thank you very much and I didn’t even have to nag.
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Morning Nye!!! Fantastic spread! Grabbing a plate, thank you Sir, thank you.
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And it’s Friday! Here’s the mad it through another week coffee.
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Morning Menagerie, pouring a cup now, thank you
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You are welcome Colonel.
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Who didn’t see this coming? When you strip Christianity of any semblance of the faith Jesus taught, really, why keep God in it at all?
http://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2016/4/25/how-liberal-is-this-denomination-canadians-debating-whether-a-pastor-must-believe-in-god
FTA: For the 100-strong congregation at West Hill, the answer is an unabashed yes. Stripped of God and the Bible, services here are light on religious doctrine and instead emphasise moral teachings. The service begins with a nod to the First Nations land on which the church stands and goes on to mention human rights in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Palestine. Global concern is coupled with community-building, with members invited to share significant moments of the past week.
I don’t get this at all. If I become atheist, I want no middle ground, I’ll leave church behind and not be a hypocrite about it.
The only thing I can think about this is that we are imprinted in the image of God. Our soul, our very being, restlessly and relentlessly seeks Him. We may choose, with our heart and mind, to reject Him, but that does not ever change the fact that we come from His love, and without it we are shells of what we should be.
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What followed was years of Vosper and her congregation retooling the service at West Hill. References to God and Jesus became talk of love and compassion and prayer was replaced with community sharing time. The removal of the Lord’s Prayer in 2008 proved to be a critical test, sending attendance plunging from 120 people to 40 and leaving the church’s financial strength in tatters. “The Lord’s Prayer was the last thing in the service that still held them to previous generations of church,” says Vosper. “So it became the lightning rod for all of that loss.
Forty people failed that test.
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New Age secular humanism. Why do they call themselves a church? Sounds more like a coven.
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I think it’s easier to understand in the context of this started a few hundred years ago as a opportunistic power grab and career/pocketbook enhancing move that has continued to this day. The religious leaders near the top do what they need to do to remain popular and keep the money coming in for the boat payment.
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Thirty pieces of silver is still a tempting payout.
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I get frustrated with Churches today and although I haven’t found any this bad, I do get tired of them teaching/preaching what they think will fill the pews instead of teaching/preaching God’s true Word.
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Sounds like yet another modernist progressive attempt to strip religion of religion and turn it into a neighborhood coffee klatch. You can’t redesign traditional morality into the liquid New World Order (if you’ll excuse the use of the term) morality until you take the religious basis for that traditional morality away. Once that’s gone you can replace it with those situational ethics that pass for progressive morality.
Look at our progressive political figures who play to our baser sides by saying that things we feel are wrong are really OK and only our archaic upbringing has made us view them as bad. Tell me that folks looking for an excuse to play in the mud won’t flock to these junk food ‘churches’.
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Well, Menagerie, I guess I have to read that article, which I know will irritate the heck out of me… “whether a pastor must believe in God” indeed.
Perhaps I will deem it twitter-worthy. We’ll see.
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Not even past the first few sentences, and I can already say (along with Tundra PA) that THIS IS NOT A CHURCH. “A church lead by an atheist” is a self-cancelling phrase.
There may be more to come… (“Please Stand By”, as my twitter avatar declares.)
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“The service…goes on to mention human rights in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Palestine.”
Time out: there ARE no human rights in Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Palestine.
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After removing references to God and Jesus, and dropping the Lord’s Prayer/replacing all prayer with a time of community sharing, what you have created is a secular, human-centered community activity and self-help center.
“The Lord’s Prayer was the last thing in the service that still held them to previous generations of church” They deliberately unmoored themselves and are steadily drifting away.
Very sad.
As you said, Menagerie, they have made shells of themselves, by consciously stripping away any connection with the Other [a purposefully-chosen term, in order to encompass those who are true seekers, but who have not yet realized just who “the Other” really is].
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It went to twitter. Entitled, Canadians debating whether a pastor must believe in God [aka, How many progressives can dance on the head of a pin?]
I actually hope people will read the article, so it will make them think.
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I’m busy decorating for tonight’s theme party….
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/hairball-awareness-day/
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We have extra settings if you run short.
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😯
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These are not organic hairballs. They look too nice.
(Yes, I know it’s gum. So?)
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One of the few on FOX I liked. I wonder how much this has to do with contract and how much it has to do with she called out the establishment and named names?
http://www.examiner.com/article/andrea-tantaros-booted-from-fox-news-at-least-for-now
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I agree.
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Short break here, our ‘born to be wild child’ dog broke the truce and tangled with a skunk. Had to take ten and clean that up.
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So sorry!
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Got most of it but she still has that slightly gamey scent about her. I’ll let her dry out and hitbhercwith some more anti-stink stuff, still gonna be a while before she’s clean-clean.
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My stupid lab got sprayed in the face by a skunk. Instead of running away, he attacked the skunk and got sprayed in the mouth. He still had a faint odor of skunk almost a month later.
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This is the same one that went after the pig and water moccasins so a dkunk is not a fsr stretch. I use a quarter cup,of baking soda to a quart of hydrogen peroxide ( the weak stuff, not bleach ’em blond strength) with a smsll squirt of baby shampoo to make the water wetter. Maybtake more than one quart to get ’em to ‘in the house’ acceptability but it works better than anything else we’ve tried. She’s on the patio out-gassing as we speak..
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I used to keep gallons of tomato juice around just in case.
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I tried that once and never had much luck, dog came out smelling like some strange Indian (subcontinent Asia, not ‘ugh’ Indian) dish. Time is about the best thing though a bad cold helps too.
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What works better than anything is Massengill Douche. Srsly. Any variety, but I like the one with betadine. Shampoo the dog with liquid dish soap, then use the Massengill douche like cream rinse. Leave it on 5 minutes. Works better than any other trick.
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Which one would be more powerful, the Massengill or Sanders brand?
I,ll try it…I mean buynit for the dog. Gotta go to Walgreens anyway. Reminds me of the time I wentvwith my grandaughter-in-law to a Target in Denver. My GGS was only about a month old and I was carrying him in a sling. Next to my 60-year old self was my petite, blond 19-year old GDIL and we were checking out buying formula and diapers. The late40sish cashier was giving me dirty looks the whole time. Of course that was before their born again phase so if I were to walk in today and buy the Massengills they’d probably just smile and think I self-identified…
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ROTFLMAO (I’ll be back later, I can’t see for the tears)………………..
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Yeah, I even laughed at that one as I wrote it. GDIL is still less than humored by the incident.
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That reminds me of when I was about 15, I was next door with my 45 yr old father, and a friend of our neighbor’s dropped by. When she introduced us, she used both our first names and then our last name. The obviously outspoken woman who had no filter for her tongue, looked shocked and said, “Isn’t she a little young for him?” My dad and I started laughing but our neighbor was mortified.
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I laugh every time my DH is with our daughter and grandson somewhere, people always think he’s the Daddy and husband. lol
Irritates him, makes me laugh. It doesn’t help that his grandson is the splitting image of him.
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I already told my GDIL that when she has her twins in July we’ll do it again…I know a store peopled by ultra-bent nose holier-than-thou types.
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People are strange, we were with my daughter and SIL in Baby Depot several months ago and the lady at the register still asked that question.
He snapped like he always does, “that is my grandson, she is my daughter!”
My SIL who can be a pain in the butt says, “don’t lie to the lady, I’m not embarrassed that I have this hot older girlfriend,” and put his arm around me.
It wasn’t quite as funny anymore. lol
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Ran out of nerve in The Store, just bought a large bottle of vinegar and even then I got two packs of instant salad dressing as a beard.
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LOL!
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😀 😀 😀
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I swear by the Massengill’s. I usually bought 3-4 boxes at a time and always felt compelled to explain to the checker that they were for my dogs. Leaves their coats really soft and silky.
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Let’s put that in a different light. I go in, buy three or four cartons and say I bought if for my dog…
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Boy, I wish I’d know that a couple months ago. I had two sad, pitiful dogs I bathed about six times.
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I wish I had known that the 4 times my three stupid dogs got sprayed.
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I’m about a thousand mile from my wife at the moment, but every time I start to type some “reply”, she calls.
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These cretins in the WH…… I swear, no manners……
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/665757/Invictus-Games-President-Obama-Prince-Harry-Michelle-Queen-twitter
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Oh, come now. Don’t act surprised. We’ve known this all along. 😯
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Friday humor. 🙂
GARDEN SNAKES CAN BE DANGEROUS…
Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here’s why.
A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.
It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream.
The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa.
He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That’s when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor’s wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband’s mouth on the woman’s mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man’s throat.
By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here…
They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
And that’s when he shot her.
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What happened to the snake?
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Probably still living in the couch. 🙂
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The Mighty ‘Birds, linin’ up to rock ‘n roll! 😀
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I have always enjoyed the Birds and Angels. I was always nervous when another aircraft was flying 500 meters from me. Some of their flight maneuvers as 3-9 feet from one another……
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It’s why I do NOT attend the actual airshow. I’ve seen things. It occurred to me today that this housing area is really…… a tad close, IYKWIMAITYD.
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Well. I’d open up the dambar but photonbucket isn’t working. I’ma drink a beer anyway.
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Why, thanks, I think I will.
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Wine, please.
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Thank you Stella, Ms.WeeWeed, I’ll take a rye, small beer chaser…….
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😀 😀 😀 Stevie Ray!!
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Well, tried the vinegar. Living room is now redolent with the scent of salade de moufette
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Got Salad???
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No, helluva lotta skunk though
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Well. At the risk of bein’ banned forever, perhaps you could persuade Czarina to purchase a couple containers of Massengill with betadine…..
(and I say “at the risk” because…. that wasn’t how I’se originally gonna say it…..)
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Right now she’s busy tryin’ to figure a way to grt a drum of Fabreeze into my agricultural sprayer
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Well this will get me BANNED: Hand pump!
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Might as well swing for the wall myself, ‘I have a Japanese electrical model’.
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I can’t remember if I heard about this from Stella or from someone else, but I had not seen the video until tonight and it’s even nuttier than hearing about it. I do believe these 63 deer culled were donated to the homeless, so I guess in their view hungry people’s lives don’t matter as much as deer’s lives. How crazy do you have to be to hold a memorial for deer?
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Hey, when I read Bambi to my son, I cried from the point I remembered his mother died through the rest of the story. And, even I think this is nutty.
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I always told my kids the hunter needed to fill his freezer so his family could eat. lol
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My dad was not a hunter, and I never had deer meat, so that wouldn’t have worked on me.
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My brother hated Bambi and would never allow his children to read the book or watch the movie because he said it was all about twisting the minds of children to make them believe hunters were evil.
I never saw the same harm he did, but just in case I made it clear deer are food. lol
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I love venison, actually like it more than beef. Best shill, meatloaf, and spaghetti ever, and I think we have had fisticuffs over the tenderloin.
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Although I grew up with game on the table, I was never the biggest fan of any of it.
I love deer meat now if it’s cooked right. I’ve learned as an adult that although my mother was a good cook, she wasn’t a good wild game cook.
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Moose is absolutely the best! The backstraps (tenderloin?) and the brisket are so tender and yummy. I can never have enough of it.
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