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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Yikes! Just found out last night that a lady I know had her house burn down yesterday morning.
http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_070808WAB_bellevue_house_fire_TP.363aa9fb.html
She’s one of the bartenders at da waterin’ hole. She and her kids and parents all shared a big five or six bedroom house up in the tiger mountain area. They’re saying they pretty much lost everything. What a drag.
Oh man... that is a drag. At least they got everyone out.
What a nightmare. Prayers up for the family.
SirKit and I have started back taking our walks in the evening; our usual route is about 2 miles. The last two evenings have been tough!
Is he single, and Catholic? ;o)
Aw dang! I hope they have a place to stay in the interim, and also hope they had good fire insurance!
I don’t know SuziQ - I’ll try to find out.
I was told, actually, that he is a very religious man, by my friend Bob, who recommended him. Bob, who cusses like a sailor, said to me “He’s a religious guy, you’ll have to watch your language around him”. I said “Bob, that isn’t usually a big problem for me, cussing excessively in front of new people”.
Heh...
At least kittens are easy (once someone like Hair has handled the hard parts when they’re really little...)
I’ve just been doing my yammering elsewhere. ;-) Maybe I’d better come back here some of the time, if only so’s I don’t drive the guitar folks crazy...
Didn't she say she had one left?
Aw, geesh. That’s really a shame.
Wonder if it was fireworks related, considering the time of year.
You people...yeesh! ;-)
Ya...one of the guys here at work just got chickens a few months back!
*snort*
One of these days I've gotta meet Bob. Just to see if he lives up to the legend. ;-)
Wow, she is a bellwether!
Oh this is my absolute favorite subject right now!!!!
People are beginning to make the connection between what they eat and how it was treated. Hunters have long known that an animal that’s been killed quickly, that isn’t suffering and stressed before it is processed tastes better. When you see beef being led to slaughter using electrical prods and with their legs bent under them, barely able to walk...you gotta wonder if the meat is really that good and is it worth it.
Obviously it’s only good enough to sell in bulk and serve as hamburger to school kids...I guess they’re not connoisseurs of fine beef.
And who are these people prodding the cattle repeatedly or shuffling through rank chicken houses filled with manure to select chickens of just the right size? Illegals, mostly, I would imagine. Are they vaccinated? Are they healthy?
People are starting to weigh their options and are seeing that raising their own food in their own back yard can be done much more humanely and cleanly. It’s why when anyone finds out we’re doing it grill us with questions and want to know if we’ll sell them some. At any time they know they can stop by and see our chickens, clean...well cared for...basking in the sun or dusting themselves in the dirt, snacking on the grass and whatever bug wanders near. Since they know us, they know that we treat them humanely up until the very end of their lives and that we’re healthy too.
It’s gotta make for a better product. Pastured chickens sell for about $12 a bird here in the Tulsa area...I couldn’t sell mine for that much to my friends. They cost us about $3 each to raise not including my time and effort.
And the last image in their teeny tiny little brains is that of the person they love wielding a meat cleaver toward their teeny tiny little necks.
I'm just sayin' is all...
Heh heh...well, this is true...but at least it isn’t torment day in and day out. Most of the time their biggest concern is the disappearance of their feed dish whenever I take it out for two minutes to re-fill it. Talk about dramatics. You’d think it was the end of the world.
How do they treat Spam before they can it?
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