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Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I like the past. Wouldn't care to visit most of it.
I'd visit, just wouldn't want to live there.
Jim Kweskin's older albums are great - not all are jugband stuff, but it's fun music. Nice musicianship and harmonies.
My next disc is going to be the Tobasco Donkeys - a group of guys I worked with about 10 years ago in NM. They took the songs they did for campfire shows to the studio and put together a *great* disc. Extreme talent and great guys.
Oh my...those aren't chicken's...I've been duped!
Mrsnad
I'm with you when it comes to Chows...we'll be sure to do the pink tongue check...thanks,
mrsnad
Do they have a site?
BTW, you know that there are quite a lot of free download tracks available on Amazon, right? I think you may have been the one to tell me about that feature. It'd been awhile since I'd looked around. Just got a bunch of free Doc Watson and Del McCoury...an Ella Fitzgerald track, too. A few of the downloads aren't complete tracks, but a lot are.
Stressful weeks like this one put me in an escapist mood. I long to get back to the days when I had no real responsibilities except to hike mountain trails and cook on wood burning stoves. :)
Wish I could put a dog door in the playroom, but the door is a french door...damn french! :-)
A fence would be way to hard and co$t way too much and limit them to too small an area...IMHO We want to get that invisable fence transmitter...it covers about an acre and would be easy to install as you don't have to bury the line in the dirt. Just plug it in and you have about an acre circle for the dog to run around in.
Mrsnad
You can install the doggie doors right in a wall, doesn't need to be in the door... Just sayin is all in case it hadn't occurred to you.
The only complaint I have with the invisible fence systems and shock collars for every day is that especially in heavy coated dogs, you have to keep them very very tight for the electric probes to have good enough contact to work. I had to really keep it tight on my lab when I was working him with the collar on, and I never would have wanted to leave it on that way.
Wire electric or mesh fences like we have could certainly be done for a large multi acre area without too much money, and can be made to look good, and dogs will respect an electric fence. However, it's a life change to be fenced in.
Our golden retriever has an invisible fence. Took a while for him to figure out what it was (he's very stupid). We had to set it on "Stune a Doberman" for a while. The collar doesn't seem to irritate him, you just take it off while the dog is inside.
A golden doesn't have the thick undercoat a lab has... but was the collar really tight to work?
Golden's aren't stupid; they are just so lovable, they can't believe anyone would "hurt" them, even if it is for their own protection,e.g., a shock collar.
Here's a fishing story for you from my youth...
When I went off to college for the first year, my parents moved to another town. So when I came "home" for summer, I basically lived in a new town and knew no one.
So I went to my parents church...a little Southern Baptist church, you know, and met this guy there. Seemed like a nice enough guy and hey, he went to my church!
He found out I liked to fish and offered to take me fishing. Night fishing. Sounded good to me, you know...I'm thinking lanterns, gigging and such. So I gather all my fishing gear, he picks me up and the moon is full and we drive out to the bayou.
The first odd thing I noticed was he was dressed to the nines. Hello, we're going fishing! The second thing I noticed was when we got out to the bayou, he had forgot his fishing gear! No rod and reel or anything! Well, thankfully I had all of my stuff, my net and tackle box, everything.
But I didn't have a lantern, I mean, I figured he'd bring a lantern! Thankfully I had a flashlight in my tacklebox!
So we get to the shore of the bayou and I cast in and commence to fish.
The next thing I know *WHAM* I'm flat on my back with this guy on top just asmoochin' on my neck! I'm literally laying there in the dirt holding on to dear life to my fishing pole thinking "Well, now...this is a turn of events."
After a pause, where I caught my breath...I tapped the guy on the shoulder and said "Excuse me, but I think you better take me home."
He got up, I packed up my gear and he took me home. I was so mad! I didn't even get to fish a bit.
I never felt in danger (I was young and naive, I guess) and the guy never showed back up to church. I really was disappointed I didn't get to fish that night. LOL!
Teeheeheheee.
Ya know there's a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band song about that kind of thing - it's called "Fishin' in the Dark"
LOL!! Yep, I know the song well. It came out after this happened.
But I had just met this guy. He wasn't even my boyfriend or anything. I considered it a fishing date.
I was a very trusting and naive person. I don't think I was exactly sheltered, but I often found myself in situations that no one ever warned me *could* happen.
I guess I was 19 years old and the obligation to tell me stuff like this had passed and I never had situations come up like this before going off to college.
Not that tight. The spikes were long, though, so it didn't have to be. Mom paid close attention and the dog never showed any signs of discomfort at all (she worked at a vet hospital as a teen and is really good with basic pet care. And basic human care, she used to remove all our stitches for us.)
It's just a concern to be aware of is all, with heavy coated dogs.... It has to make good contact on skin with the ends of those probes, and if the collar is loose enough for the unit to slip around under, it doesn't make good contact.
Eventually, they avoid the boundary out of habit and it isn't as vital.
Dirt Band came out with Fishin' in the Dark in 1988, I think. This happened a year after I graduated from high school, so the summer of 1982.
Twenty three years ago!??
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