And here I thought I might like your kind of service work. Now I'm thinking maybe it's not for me--an impossible goal to meet. LOLOL

And thank you alan for giving me permission to sleep late. (Not that I need it) But I'll be sure to think of that next time I half wake up at 8 and try to decide if I want just a touch more.

So Doc must be sleeping in today.....he was using up some vacation days as I recall.
I think its time for Mr. Business to take a trip to town and do some shopping at the doggie store.

No kidding!!! I have so much to learn.
So does wifey give you a great back scratch with her weapons?
Scott is already begging me to scratch his back.
Maybe I will...suppose another part of marital bliss......

So Doc must be sleeping in today.....he was using up some vacation days as I recall.
I think its time for Mr. Business to take a trip to town and do some shopping at the doggie store.

Progress report .....My nails are growing.

YEP

...SD....your point level depends on how nice I feel at any given moment, and how much of a pain you generally are. Which accounts for SP's failure to get very many points even when she's good.
( Love ya, SP )

Whatever amount of GOOWS cards Ma grants you, I still get more because I am her Favorite.

Mel, curious to know how many GOTWSF credits did that score AJ?
...because I'm composing my own line of βΣ now...
(Beta Sigma)

Oh...my skills are great with driving the Harley.
Had my own for 15 years until it got so old no one would work on it.
1985 EVO Police Special .....awesome bike. Was an old parade bike from Delaware.
Special Cam built in for chasing the bad guys.
Will have to send some PIC's someday.
After I sold mine Scott and I went riding on his bike ....me driving..and him riding "itch" ........had to go through Skyway toll plaza and a bunch of other bikers rolled up beside us.
They laughed at Scott .....and said to one of the buddies ......"She's driving because his feet probably can't touch the ground" .......since then he has refused to ever ride on the back again.
Shoot .....I was just practicing towing someone and they ruined it for me!!!
Azz's everywhere!

Rainy today ... should have turned the AC on last night , the doberman could not get his good sleep on. I do not want to work today ughh!

Speaking of archery, this guy has really developed some neat bows

Yes, with my small "herd," I can manage it however I want. Most all of our neighbors (the beef ranchers) calve in the early spring, February through April(ish). There's the odd one or two born later, like our little foster calf, Oliver, but most of them are spring calvings for exactly the reasons you mention. However, they don't milk their beef cows. I'm the odd one in these parts, LOL! But actually it's a good thing, because I have all the milk (when I'm milking) and use it to trade for stuff like extra hay and favors.



A friend of mine in Wisconsin is currently hunting a large possum that's been eating her chickens, in the coop! I guess it found a spot to wiggle in. Anyway, the tracks and tail prints in the snow are definitely possum, so good thing you caught yours before he started eating YOUR chickens.

When my ex and I lived in Portland (Tualatin actually) and had Ninja, my first Dobie, who was no slouch in the size department, we had a huge possum coming in our back yard eating the poop! OMG. No shooting was allowed within city limits, so the hubs finally shot him with a field tipped arrow. A gunshot would have been quieter - that possum screeched like nobody's business. And Ninja was WILD, trying to get through the glass patio door and finish off that critter. I didn't let him out, for the simple reason I wasn't sure who would win that fight. That was one large and fierce possum. (He finally dragged himself off to die in someone else's yard, I assume. Anyway, we never saw it again.)

I'm glad we don't have possums out here, but then there ARE the skunks, which do as much damage to poultry, and smell worse. Jasper's smart enough not to chase them, but he also doesn't see them as a threat, either. They don't ACT like a predator, and honestly, I think he thinks of them as cats. So it's on us to get rid of the skunks, although there are fewer than there used to be, I assume just because there's a big dog loose on the premises.

Oh, SP, I almost forgot. My first Arab, Raj, was an Egyptian (El Hilal grandson, I DO have his papers), but he was a stocky, blocky boy, and if I had to guess, I'd say he outweighed Horus by quite a bit. Horus is much lighter boned than Raj was, and I would think it would be just the opposite. Raj was almost an identical twin to Horus in color and markings, and just about the same size, except Raj was stockier. Maybe I just fed him too well.

Horus, though, used to have a REALLY beautiful long mane and tail - I have a picture of him right after he got here and his mane is flying out behind him, and his tail was flowing, long enough to touch the ground. But the trees. We have a LOT of trees, and Horus is itchy in the spring, so he rubs every part of himself on the tree trunks and branches. You can see (maybe) in that picture I posted, the spot where it looks like the middle of his mane is flopped over to the other side? Well, it's not, it's just missing right there. And he rubs his butt on the trees and breaks off most of his tail hairs right up at the top, so there's not much left. I try to go out and use the toothed shedder on him when he's shedding, to help scratch his itchies, but I can't be out there 24 hours a day, so when I leave, he goes and uses the trees, silly boy. He rubs it off faster than it can grow back.

Well, I'm cooking Persian food for dinner tonight. Zereshk polo, which is Basmati rice with chicken and barberries. My absolute all-time favorite food in the whole world. Even more favoriter than chocolate cake! I wish you could all come for dinner, but since you can't, I guess I'll have to eat it all! Hahahaha!

AJ, Can't believe you just burned one of your newly earned credits by forcing Mel to add the title....

You certainly got a woman, one crazy toe-sucking woman, heading over to your parts of FL....

Hey Spock
https://youtu.be/CnI_LuCJ4Ek

Mel, curious to know how many GOTWSF credits did that score AJ?
...because I'm composing my own line of βΣ now...
(Beta Sigma)

Permission!!! I am just cool with the benefits of a rested Mel.

And here I thought I might like your kind of service work. Now I'm thinking maybe it's not for me--an impossible goal to meet. LOLOL

And thank you alan for giving me permission to sleep late. (Not that I need it) But I'll be sure to think of that next time I half wake up at 8 and try to decide if I want just a touch more.

Spock and I attended "Career Day" at our regular E.S. this morning, awoke 0400, left house at 0700 in the cold wx. (38F) We didn't get back until 1030 this morning and both Spock and I have scheduled a nappy nap now.