#naimhe

[pinkabrinka]

"This recreation explains how the bear escaped into the woods." http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nOKHlWAp4No

[compulsivefarmer]

naimhe replied to your photoset “We had some crazy down pours last night. My husband said that in...”

That's a pretty impressive flow to carry a pounder off.

I'm hoping it was heavy enough that it's just covered by water right now and not washed away. That or my husband just forgot where he put it and is blaming the creek. 

[unexpectedyarns]

Five for Friday

Until I can get a new carburetor for our riding mower, I bought a cheapie push mower from Home Depot.  We have used it ONCE to cut the front yard and ONCE to cut the back yard.  Now it will start but not run for more than 2 seconds.  The safety bar is pulling the switch it needs to.  That either means the spark plug is bad, or there is dirt in the carburetor.  I’m taking it back.

I have always loved having chickens, and I’ve had them most of my adult life.  I like the way they move and run and their silliness.  I like the sounds they make and the rich, rich eggs (did you know the average egg in the grocery store is 3 weeks old before it gets there?  Mine are FRESH).  But since the neighbors reported us and got us charged with “Notoriously mischievous livestock running amok,” we’ve had to keep them penned.  And trust me, a dozen hens, a rooster, and 2 ducks in an 8x8 pen pile up poop faster than you can bat an eye.  The last 2 days it rained.  Today I had to retrieve 30, count them THIRTY, mud-shit covered eggs.  Since I only have 12 hens and some of them don’t lay every day, that means my spawn didn’t collect eggs yesterday and probably not the day before (most likely due to the mud-shit thing).

I suddenly hate my chickens.  Naimhe, come butcher them for me.  I’ll put you up and give you a tattoo for your trouble.  Maybe your cow too.

I spent most of this afternoon having an existential crisis and bawling my eyes out.  My blood pressure isn’t under control YET.  Well it is if I sit on the sofa and watch Netflix and knit, but I can’t.  I have things to do roughly 16 hours a day.  My life is never going to be calm.  I realize I need to work through a LOT of buried anger at my ex (only almost 30 years worth).  And here I thought i escaped relieved but relatively unscathed, silly me. And I don’t want to just pop an anti-anxiety pill and pretend la la la my life was just fine.  But seriously if keeping my BP down means being basically a vegetable, I guess I’ll die relatively young instead.  I told all this to my darling husband on his lunch break & he said, but having you is worth all the not having you.  Then he went by the grocery store I went to (to get water for the store he works at) and stopped at my car, leaving a note that said I LOVE YOU in huge letters.  I am just about stupid for that man.

I think I’m going to make a quiche for dinner, with some lean ham, and eggs from my chickens and spinach from my garden.

[jgwaelchli]

I've been elevened.

Rules:

Always post the rules.

Answer the questions of the person who tagged you and write 11 new ones. 

Tag 11 people and link them.

Let them know they are tagged.

Donthenerd tagged me and I thought they were damn good questions so here goes nothing...

Where is your favorite small town and why?-I love the small town I grew up around but the favorite small town I have traveled to would have to be Minocqua, WI. The people are friendly, the bars are numerous, and the scenery is beautiful. A motorcycle ride in the countryside is as close to heaven as you can get.

Could you solve simultaneous linear equations right now, if asked?   -Not without a pencil and paper. I used to hate algebra and geometry in school and now I use it every. damn. day.

Where is the weirdest place you’ve fallen asleep? Not passed out. Fallen asleep.   -When I was a kid I fell asleep in the back window of a '73 Buick LeSabre on a trip from WI to TX. It was the 70's and kid seats were unheard of at the time. Also,with 4 older sisters and my parents in the car room was limited.

What’s your favorite nonsexual position?  -Linebacker

What was the last situation or circumstance that made you cry for no apparent reason?   -Yowza. I would have to say it's a tie between Up and Marley and Me. All the feels.

Have you ever had an out-of-body experience and if so, what was it like?  -I don't think so. But I have deja vu incessantly so either I'm always having them or my body is damn busy when I'm not looking.

Describe something you’ve done for money but regretted.   -It was college, man, and all the kids were doing it.

What is your favorite non-human smell and sound?    - I used to paint vehicles so I love the smell of a fresh paint job. And freshly mowed alfalfa. A definite tie. As for sounds, any two cylinder motorcycle with a tendency towards Ducati and of course Harley.

What do you have in your bag or wallet right now that you didn’t know was there?   -Let me look... Holy crap there is a condom in here from '06! I guess it has been a while.

What is your favorite season and seasoning?   -Spring, especially after a hard winter like this. And garlic.

Condom and condiment?  -Any one that is not the one I just found in my wallet. And spicy mustard.

And now the hard part. My queries are as follows:

1.What childhood television show had dire effects on your personality?

2.If you could learn just one thing about your future, what would it be?

3.What is your favorite accomplishment in life?

4.Would you rather travel by plane, train, or automobile? 

5.If money was no object, what would you do all day?

6.What is your favorite vacation memory?

7.Blue or black ink? 

8.What is the coolest word you know? Do you get to use it enough?

9.Do you own a swiss army knife? Swiss navy knife?(Trick question. Switzerland is landlocked.)

10.State your opinion of marmots.

11.I'm really running out of gas quickly. Ummm, favorite Disney movie?

And the tagees are naimhe, monkeyfrog, donthenerd(can I do that?), puzzld, jamiek, groverviolet, girl11eleven, blatherlikeme, do-over, halfbakedidea. I apologize profusely. Kinda.

[compulsivefarmer]

naimhe replied to your post “10 pounds of lard also came with the pork… What am I supposed to do...”

make suet for the birds. have greasy sex that smells like a pigs butt. bake lots and lots of biscuits. you pick.

Suet and biscuits sound like a good idea, greasy pig sex not so much. I'd never get the smell out of my sheets.