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[Bucket1]

4 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

You will not believe here it is mid jan and we have a dust storm😲

Does that mean the end of any snow or just weird weather?

It's humid here and rained last night because of a cyclone in the tropics

[Albert1434]

Keep your fingers crossed we may get some rain on friday

[Albert1434]

Kirkwood ski resort has a 188 mile an hour winds😲

[Albert1434]

Val Gary and Marty check this out!

Angered sheep battles a shepherd dog (msn.com)

[Sherye Story Reader]

23 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

You will not believe here it is mid jan and we have a dust storm😲

We have them all year round here in West Texas! lol

[Bucket1]

33 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Kirkwood ski resort has a 188 mile an hour winds😲

I remember a huge dust storm a few years ago that turned all the snow orange

[Page Scrawler]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Tonight were having for dinner

Crispy Chicken Tenders with Sriracha Ketchup

with garlic and sesame broccoli

We had an early dinner of Eggs Benedict casserole with Hollandaise sauce and asparagus. 

[Bucket1]

All this talk of food and I have to run off to work... so unfair

[Page Scrawler]

Just now, Bucket1 said:

All this talk of food and I have to run off to work... so unfair

I'll send you some leftovers. 

[Sherye Story Reader]

I hate when my stepson gets my mail out of my mailbox and never rings it to me until I say something. He is so forgetful. I guess this old lady will have to start walking to her neighbors house which is where my mailbox is. I live in front of the interstate where there is a overpass that vehicles turn under and some don't pay attention to the way they drive so I can't put my mailbox in front of my house. There are 2 more people that live down the road behind me, (I own the road since it is part of the land and have to give the right of way to the people behind me to get to their property), which they have to have their mailboxes put in front of our neighbors house like I do. So I bet I don't get my mail tonight at all!

[Sherye Story Reader]

Good night. And yes it is still early but I did not sleep very long last night. I will be up really early since it will be raining and my order collie freaks out when it rains and she tries to tear my doors or windows trying to get out to run off. I lost her once for almost 24 hours when I did not realize it was fixing to rain. A neighbor across the interstate found her trying to get in his yard and he had to call the vet to find out who she belonged to. He brought her to me when he got off work. That was 4 years ago.

[Headstall]

5 minutes ago, Story Reader said:

Good night. And yes it is still early but I did not sleep very long last night. I will be up really early since it will be raining and my order collie freaks out when it rains and she tries to tear my doors or windows trying to get out to run off. I lost her once for almost 24 hours when I did not realize it was fixing to rain. A neighbor across the interstate found her trying to get in his yard and he had to call the vet to find out who she belonged to. He brought her to me when he got off work. That was 4 years ago.

Good night, Sherye.  

[Marty]

12 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Val Gary and Marty check this out!

Angered sheep battles a shepherd dog (msn.com)

I have seen that happen before with individual rams. 

When in a flock, the sheep (even any rams that may be in the flock) really do behave like sheep, and will be "frightened" of the sheepdog, hence enabling the dog, after suitable training, to round them up and move them in the direction the shepherd tells it to. The shepherd uses different calls, whistles and hand signals (which often made more obvious to the sheepdog by the shepherd waving his crook, or long stick) to tell the dog what it is supposed to do.

But a ram, by itself, doesn't follow the flock instinct (as it's not currently part of a flock) and, being usually quite a good bit bigger than the sheepdog, will sometimes stand its ground, and may even attack it with its forehead, as seen in the video.

For this reason, when a shepherd is training a young dog, he (or she) will try to make sure that it is not put in a situation where it would be confronted by a lone ram. Not just because the young dog may be physically injured when the ram charges it, but also because the mental fright to the dog may make it unwilling to face sheep in the future.

 

Edited January 20, 2021 by Marty
Tidying up

[Albert1434]

The Rolling Stones are set to release their own chocolate bars

According to The Daily Star‘s ‘Wired’ column, a milk chocolate bar (called ‘Brown Sugar’) and a dark chocolate bar (‘Cherry Red’, inspired by the lyric “my favourite flavour, cherry red” from ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’) will both go on sale on the Stones’ merch website from Monday (January 25).

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Valkyrie]

The suckiness that is 2021 continues... I talked to one of my old high school friends and her BFF passed away suddenly   We all used to hang out together during high school and for quite a few years afterwards.    

[Headstall]

14 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Aloha, Albert.    

[Headstall]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

I have seen that happen before with individual rams. 

When in a flock, the sheep (even any rams that may be in the flock) really do behave like sheep, and will be "frightened" of the sheepdog, hence enabling the dog, after suitable training, to round them up and move them in the direction the shepherd tells it to. The shepherd uses different calls, whistles and hand signals (which often made more obvious to the sheepdog by the shepherd waving his crook, or long stick) to tell the dog what it is supposed to do.

But a ram, by itself, doesn't follow the flock instinct (as it's not currently part of a flock) and, being usually quite a good bit bigger than the sheepdog, will sometimes stand its ground, and may even attack it with its forehead, as seen in the video.

For this reason, when a shepherd is training a young dog, he (or she) will try to make sure that it is not put in a situation where it would be confronted by a lone ram. Not just because the young dog may be physically injured when the ram charges it, but also because the mental fright to the dog may make it unwilling to face sheep in the future.

 

Morning, Marty.  

[Headstall]

8 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

The suckiness that is 2021 continues... I talked to one of my old high school friends and her BFF passed away suddenly   We all used to hang out together during high school and for quite a few years afterwards.    

  

[dughlas]

27 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

The suckiness that is 2021 continues... I talked to one of my old high school friends and her BFF passed away suddenly   We all used to hang out together during high school and for quite a few years afterwards.    

 sis

[Bucket1]

37 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

The suckiness that is 2021 continues... I talked to one of my old high school friends and her BFF passed away suddenly   We all used to hang out together during high school and for quite a few years afterwards.    

[Marty]

20 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Morning, Marty.  

Howdy, Gary!

A nice sunny, if slightly cold, day here. Getting some more ladder work done in neighbour's garden against the boundary wall. Very slow progress, but for every branch cut, however small, it's one step closer to the finish.

And, anyway, I suppose the very first cut was the most important one...  

 

[Marty]

49 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Greetings, Albert!

Just in warming my hands around a mug of coffee, before heading out doing a final hour's work.

[Marty]

43 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

The suckiness that is 2021 continues... I talked to one of my old high school friends and her BFF passed away suddenly   We all used to hang out together during high school and for quite a few years afterwards.    

 

[Page Scrawler]

2 minutes ago, Marty said:

Greetings, Albert!

Hey, Marty!