I'm sure a healthy tip in the tip jar would help, monnie.

You don't mind if I call you that?

Don't worry, it was a self-deprecating joke about being a band-wagon-jumper
Snicker

Tailgating but it's a completely different subject.

I have spooked Diz tonight without meaning to at all.
I was browsing cute cat videos on youtube (what?!) and found one of a Bengal cat talking to her kittens. Purrr she goes, mmmrrwww?

I thought Diz might enjoy it, so once he came in and settled down on the sofabed I played it again.

Fool.

Diz is a jealous cat. I should acknowledge no other cat but Diz.
So he was up on the desk, round the back of the 'puter and finally settled on sitting half in and half out of the bedroom door. From here he can keep an eye on me and the computer, Mia's room (shut door), his room and the stairs.

Poor baby.
He is guarding.

So all the big dogs here are happy. We had to castrate the late summer calves. Mountain oysters all around! YUM! :P

I have a piglet castration story that I will add to my "share with Nirvana" list right after I get on that spaghetti squash recipe.

It's the thought that counts

Speaking of castration. The boys and I were watching some old super 8 home movies at Dad's a few weeks ago, and most of it is stuff from when he used to go hunting feral pigs on sheep and wheat stations. Anyway, one of them had a few minutes with an old time stockman cutting the lambs and pulling the testicles out with his teeth, and there's me sitting on the fence rail next to dad who's holding the lamb with his dangly bits presented. I was surprised at how the kids reacted. They're so sheltered these days. :eyebrow:

That would be from A.A. Milne's little known "dark" period, right?

I find it hard to believe that using the teeth for this is so much easier as to make it worth while. Yet, this is how the old timers did it. Guess they must have had a reason. Maybe the taste?

Step 1) Clamp and hold sac with forceps.
Step 2) Cut sac with scalpel
Step 3) Reach in and rip testicle out with hand.
Repeat step 3

just sayin'

Mike Rowe's famous (to me) talk on lamb castration by teeth.

Gumballs!

Anaesthetic?

Antiseptic?

BBQ?

Judging by a few of the posts today, i'd say the shit's gonna hit the fan again soon, so please excuse me while I disappear. :)

:corn:

For another thread

Where has More Than Pretty been?? It has been a while since I have seen her...

Pam.