Hooray! It seems the EarthLink servers are up and running, again. I was getting worried after two days of “This Page Cannot Be Displayed” error messages. I will say, I have been with EarthLink since I launched my first Web site back in the 90s, and the reliability has been outstanding—with only the occasional hiccup. Today, I have another Sunday A&J from 1994. This is a mild example of the insecurity that characterized Janis in the early years. Janis since has mellowed and enjoys life and marriage much more these days. In reality, the waiter or waitress who hovers constantly around me and pesters me with ceaseless questions and attention is not ingratiating himself. But reality is what insecurity is all about, is?
Gratuitous Gratuity
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257 responses to “Gratuitous Gratuity”
Jackie, sounds like daughter has the right idea. You might try adding PediaLyte too, though. It will help restore your lost electrolytes. There is an adult version, but I’ve heard the children’s version tastes better. Is anyone trying to complete the course in spite of the Coast Guard’s trying to shut it down? Glad you are in a warm sunny place right now. Got to be better than home, but hope you will get over this GI problem so you can enjoy your stay.
David in Austin, that is excellent news. Great to hear you are off dialysis.
Ghost, never tried Panera Bread. As far as gun free zones, it seems a silly idea to me, as the ones who are truly dangerous won’t care. But then you can get shot just walking down the street or while watching tv in your home when some yo-yos start shooting outside. (happened in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago). I’ve got to stop there or I will go somewhere I don’t want to go here.
Cyberspace just ate my comment and I suspect it was divine intervention. Like Mark, I went somewhere I really should not have. Except he didn’t.
Love, Jackie
Somehow my last post got garbled (so much for my touchscreen experiment!), so I’ll try to reconstruct it:
Clearly we guys are all manly men, studly studs, and playful boys, all depending on the time of day, the environment we’re in, and the company we’re keeping.
Jackie, knowing when not to say what you really want to is very important. It can keep you out of trouble, out of jail, out of the hospital and out of a life-and-death situation. Many people who had to have the last word in an argument did, at least their own!
I know Mark and I have tried all my life not to play the Victim card.
GR6
There is /was a cafe in southern MN that gave discounts (I think once a week)
to those that open carry. People come from all over to get discount.
Just checked on line – there are all kinds of eating establishments with discounts for
open carry. 50 years ago it was mo big deal, diners had gun racks during hunting season.
A friend went shooting in the morning an stored his rifle in his school locker.
We are a world away from that. Mostly the media’s fault.
Better not to let yourself be played for a victim, and I don’t think you are about to let that happen. Good night, hard to believe it’s 11pm (my body doesn’t), another night hard to get to sleep and to awaken in the morning. I wish the Feds would pick one time and keep it. This changing back and forth is for the birds, at least the diurnal ones.
Jimmy we need an edit button
“..no big deal..”
Mark
Back in the day farmers did not change clocks. Cow did not change why should they.
Good morning Villagers…..
Old Bear, did you make that up (a chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion”)? I thought it was cute, will use it today too 🙂
Now to answer your questions, first: my hen house has some 75,000 plus hens, and they are two different flocks, meaning two different hatch dates.
Second: when the hen are ‘purged” (sounds better than euthanized) and removed from building, we disinfect 100 percent. Every cage gets a wire brush taken to it to remove manure and feathers, all curtain backs and beams are scraped. Feeding troughs and water lines are cleaned off with wire brushes, the house is blown out continuously ….very detailed and grueling. Then for the finale, the “fumigator” is sprayed, kind of like the Terminator…..the house is closed up for 24 hours after being fumigated, and nothing survives. I know Virkon is used as well as some Biopene…anyway something like that.
They are due to take the hens out the 24th and we start cleaning after them on the 25th. I will be at my house, packing, go home and eat then take off to ‘supervise’ and inspect the high school kids cleaning. Also major cage repairs are done then too.
I think I’ve told this story before, but the last time they purged that building, they had three ‘kill boxes” on the front deck, which had a wooden floor. And due to years of condensation, the wood rotted, and the three ‘kill boxes’, filled with dead birds, went through the floor and into the pit. My son and The Boss had to go down in the pit and remove birds and help get boxes out. Ian came home wearing only his underwear….good thing we only live about 6 miles from that hen house.
Old Bear, I suppose that out of 500,000 hens there are several hatch dates involved. It is a three story layer house, with one pit….I really would like to see this building.
The Corp man came buy yesterday with paperwork on this Avian Influenza (think I called it Asian flu a couple of weeks ago). It seems it has shown up in turkey flocks in Montana and Missouri (some 15,000 turkey died within days somewhere in MT or MO)….we have stricter protocol and no one is to be around turkeys, ducks, any wild water fowl….and if they are, they are not allowed in any layer house for 48 hours. They have not found any of the virus in the ‘flyways’, migratory routes….think highways…their is the Pacific Flyway and the Missouri Flyway…so that is encouraging.
And that is that in a nutshell, Old Bear 🙂
GR 😉 and Mark, thank you for the U Tube links;….I thoroughly enjoyed them. As a matter of fact, ‘Heart’ was on the AXL channel Saturday night…good watching.
Gal 🙂 how you holding up, we’re getting 60 degree weather here in a couple of days, a lot of our snow has melted, the county roads are muddy now.
Miss Charlotte…..call your doctor this day, you can’t be in pain with a cast on your ankle for the remaining period.
David…such good news, and I loved the new bra invention story….funny.
Jackie…..please take care of yourself, we love you and look forward to your postings. I can tell you’ve not been feeling well physically and emotionally.
gotta go…..
ya’ll have a blessed day
this reminded me of an old lyric from a Frank Zappa tune: watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow:
http://cheezburger.com/8455233024
The TIP comic
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/
and BlogSpot are different today.
Peace, emb
There! Now it’s back. emb
Ghost, this just played in my Pandora rotation, thought you might get a laugh out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u6-_1pbqxU
And Trucker Ron, we love you for it!
Lot of “animated” comments on TDS regarding Janis’s new friend Robin. It does seem as though Robin is a little manic. However, that may be part of the story arc. We will just have to see where Jimmy leads us.
Debbe: The addition of sunshine – and subtraction of snow! – has combined to raise my spirits. Perhaps the promise of spring can give me some much needed energy.
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