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Oh, man, I was a terrible brat when I was in high school! I missed probably a third of my senior year. I'd go by the school in the morning and if I couldn't find anybody that wanted to skip out with me I'd go until lunch time and by then I'd find somebody else that wanted the afternoon off so I'd skip out of my afternoon classes. My mom had been real sick and in the hospital, and the school knew that sometimes I had to go home to take care of her, so there was never any danger to speak of as far as getting caught. My classes were all easy ones that year, and I never had any homework to do, so keeping up good grades was not even a problem. I was pretty ornery as a kid. Ok. I haven't really changed much.

Welcome back. Sorry the My cents didn't work out for you before and caused you to give up. As will so many things in life, one just needs to learn patience. All sites have their bugs that need to be worked out, and any updates and changes to existing sites always seem to cause at least a temporary uproar. But we are glad you are back, and hopefully things will be better this time around.By the way, love your little cat burgler avatar! Too cute!

Wow! I am definatly not on the cutting edge of technoligy, because I've never heard of this one and it totally flabbergasts me! The leaps and bounds of technoligy today just astonds me. If as someone mentioned, this is used for commercial advertising, I am wondering about it's efectivness verses cost. I know when commercial come on TV, I usually skip them and head for the kitchen, or to check my email. I do see certain ways that these might catch on even as advertisements, if they were made to be attention getters that tweaked the readers curiosity, but it would be hard to do that with any great consistancy. Maybe a few food product ads could be cooking demonstrations, but even that would get old quick. It is pretty amazing at any rate. Especially for someone who can't figure out how to email short video's yet. lol

You might think that someone intelligent enough to get into a university would be smart enough not to mix up his chemicals? Something doesn't add up here. First off, just making it to college does not guarantee intelligent life. Some years back in Springfield Mo, they had to spend over $100,000 of the tax payers money to build a fence down the middle of National St. because the kids at the college kept getting run over trying to cross the street by Jay walking. You would think by the time somebody got to that age they would know how to cross the street, but that was not the case. But for sure, something does not add up here. I suspect there are any number of things that one could bit into that would cause an explosion, I just don't see quite how they could get into a bit of chewing gum, and also, as someone else mentioned, how did they even know he was chewing gum if his jaw was blown off? Weird.

What is your favorite gadget? You know, just little things that make every day jobs easier, quicker, more pleasant. I?m not going to include major things, like cars, though they certainly are important, if it weren?t for cars we would be wading threw the highways and byways covered with horse hockey. Just the little every day things that make our lives easier and/or more enjoyable. I also will leave out those debatable inventions like the computer and the microwave. I really wonder some times about computers. With our considerable dependence on them, I?m not sure if they are a blessing or a curse. And there are those who consider foods cooked in the microwave to be dangerous to our health, weather true or not remains to be seen, but I will leave them off my list just to be on the safe side. The blow dryer. And not those pistol grip ones that blow your hair into a massive fuzz ball that would make Phyllis Diller proud. The kind you hold and comb threw your hair with the various brush and comb attachments. As a teenager, I spent hours and hours with the pins and hair curlers, then sitting for nearly an hour with the plastic hat on waiting for my thick curly locks to dry. Now with the blow dryer I can comb it out, and even manage to straighten out some of the kinks and curls and in 5 minutes I?m good to go. Electric Dog Clippers. This of course, is obvious given my chosen profession. I would have calluses and inch deep on my fingers if I had to use scissors. And not just any dog clippers. My little Oster A 5?s are great, but my pride and joy are my Double K cable clippers. They go threw dog hair like a hot knife threw butter. Don?t know how I would ever keep up with the hair on this pack without them. . . Shirt (or pants) Pockets. How can anybody get by with out pockets? Many people chose their wardrobe by the color and designer name of the clothing, I personally just make sure my pants have pockets, don?t care who made them, if they don?t have pockets I?m not buying them. Flick your Bic! Instant fire, how cool is that? Not just for smokers, but if you have one in your pocket and the lights go out, you can flick it to find your way to your stash of candles. There?s burning the trash, and of course, the old trick of when your ink pen stops writing you can pass it threw the flame a time or two and sometimes it will start to work again. (that is of course, providing you don?t melt it.) Need to cut a piece of string and no snipers handy? Burn that baby right in two with your trusty Bic. Cork Boards You know those hastily scribbled telephone notes, receipts that you are going to need to return various articles or take off your taxes, to do lists, business cards, notes about meetings, information brochures and all that sort of stuff that you habitually loose and can spend hours tearing threw the house looking for in the stacks of forgotten junk mail and other general household clutter? Cork boards are just the think for sticking those easy to loose odd bits of papers. I have 3 of them in the house and 2 in the kennel. All I have to do is remember to put the notes on them, instead of leaving them on the end tables or kitchen table, where they are usually tossed in haste. So when I go to hunting that phone number, I know at least where to start looking. So, what are some things you find super handy?

Hummm....that is interesting. Given the size of many of the sculptures, and the weight of wet sand, I would think the amount of explosives need to put one of the sculptures up up and away would put the users of the explosives in the catagory of needing to be licenced by the ATF. Explosives are seriously regulated these days. I have a friend who is a pyrotechnic and the regulations are I know they are a nightmare. Almost as bad as for dog breeders. So I wonder how they do that???

Finally today I finished up at least the seed harvesting part of my flower bed. And my back feels findished too! Still having trouble with the merrigolds, they were slow to set on seeds, so I waited until today, when the plants were all but dead and just pulled up the whole plants and carried them down and put them in a big tray in the kennel where they can dry out. Hopefully enough will have mature seeds on them for next year. I still have quite a few more trays of flower heads that have been drying in my seed room, (an open but covered indoor/outdoor dog run not currently needed for dogs) That will take some time, but at least I can gather them up a few handfulls at a time and hull them while I sit inside somewhere warm. I am afraid I am going to be quite a few jars shy of my normal yearly collection. Won't be able to seed the bed so thickly next spring. I'm thinking about trying to find some mulch of some sort and put a layer along the edge of the bed, it's a bit wide anyway, and that would make it easier to weed, and not take as much seed. Problem is finding a sufficient quanity of mulch. I would like to use sawdust, they used to give that away, but now the sawmills sell it to make wood burning pellets for the pellet stoves, so that old trick is out. The shredded bark they sell is pretty, it comes in some nice colors, including a red shade that looks good, but it would be to expensive for the lenght of my flower bed. I also had a problem with the cosmos setting seed this year. I got a very poor harvest back from my purple shades this time. For some reason they bloomed like crazy, but didn't set seed, or the seed was extremely slow to mature. And just about the time I would of had a decent round of seed to gather, the goats escaped and made a pass down the full lenght of the flower bed just daintily picking my seed heads for goat snacks. I was not happy with them. So, tommorow the Hired man can take the lawn mower to the bed to grind up all the stems and stalks, and then aside from hauling rabbit and goat poop and wood ashes to spread on it, the flower bed is finished for another year.

I guess I am somehow missing your point on this one. The United States does manufactor guns, but so soes Russia, China, and probably every other country on the earth. I seriously doubt that if the United States was to stop manufactoring guns all of a sudden we would start to have peace on earth, goodwill towards men. I just don't see the connection between American gun makers and idiots who strap bundles of dynamite to their bodies in an effort to kill innocent people that happen to be standing close to them. I have an imagination, guess it's not that good to stretch that far though. Besides, the pentagon and the twin towers were attacked with Jet Airplanes. Maybe if we stop manufactoring planes we could have world peace????I have been hearing lots of hype in recent months were the media is coming down on American gun manufactors. Even court cases, your basic frivolous law suits, where families of people who have been killed by guns have tried to sue the gun makers. Fortunatly, these have been throw out of court, but you do hear a lot from the media about how the gun makers are now catching the blame for the drug wars in Mexico, and anything else the liberal media can dream up. Personally, I think it's just a way of pushing for more gun control and the eventual goal of removing our guns. And as you may be able to guess, I'm one of those that "they will get my gun when they pry my cold dead fingers from it's trigger!"

Wow! What can I say? Some of those are absolutly amazing! What wonderful talents some people have. Knowing they are just made from sand makes you wonder how on earth them even made many of them.But the oddest thing of all is that is seems like a trememdous amount of effort to put into something that is going to be washed or blown away in a matter of hours. It would make me terribly sad to see my work washed away, if I had that kind of talent.

I just came to the sad realization that I actually have an addiction! Didn't even know it until this past week. Guess it took awhile for the withdrawl to kick in. Now I can add another reason to my fairly long list of why I hate winter. Oh, and my addiction is of course, rather odd.November 8th was the last swapmeet for the 2009 at the I 44 swap meet. We go every week, providing it's not raining, and considering how much rain we got this year, it was pretty amazing that is seldom rained on sunday, the day we normally go. So we hardly missed a week all summer long. My better half and I both enjoy going, and it is pretty much our only "entertainment" that we get involved in. I love to hunt for bargains and get great deals on stuff. And you never know what kind of goodies you will end up finding there at usually great prices. So, now it's over until next year. And this past week I have found myself crusing E Bay! Hadn't been in there for ages. (lol, probably last winter, come to think about it) Just have this uncontrolable urge to bargain hunt!

I did some reasearch myself on Lymes disease a few years ago. I had been feeling pretty rough and just kept dragging down and down, it was a miserable feeling, completly lathargic, body aches, etc. The symptoms of Lymes fit my condition to a T. I went to the local health department, and discoverd that the test for the disease alone would cost between $150 to $200. The recomended treat for Lymes is tetracycline, and since this is a very inexpensive drug, from the vet it was just $40 for a big bottle of 1,000 pills,(or you can get it in Mexico for $4 per hundred) I choose my usual path and self medicated. It really worked, I was feeling better in no time at all. I still don't know for sure if it was lymes, but the treatment cured whatever was ailing me, so that's all that really counts anyway.If you do think you have lymes, I'd get some tetracycline and get started on it right away. You have to take a long extended course of it, I believe for 30 days. The longer you let it go the more damage it does to your body. It really sucks you only getting bit by one tick and it to have lymes. Sound about like my luck, I rarely get bit by the little buggers myself. Guess all it takes is one though, dang it. Hope you get to feeling better. I wouldn't wish lymes on anybody, it's pretty rough.

Oh Man, what a simple choise that would be! Dump that sucker! You would probably be doing him a favor, sounds like a good swift kick in his ego might be good for him.

Hummm......this statement is a bit puzzling to me, "Islam as a religion is not wholly devoted to destroying America." So....are they just partially committed to destroying us? Or is it just the jihadist and the radical muslims that want us dead? What is the viewpoint of non radical muslims towards us infidels? When they take over the USA, are they going to expect me to walk around with my face covered? Or will they be tolerant of my views? What is the differance in the tolerance levels of the jihadist and the non radical muslim? There are many different varieties in the Christian religion, Methodist, Baptist, all have slightly different beliefs, but the core values of the religion are still the same. I suspect there is also not truely much difference between the factions of the Muslim groups. The point of terrourisim is to put fear into us, so focusing on that fear is the expected result of terrorisim. Calling it war crimes implys that the perpatrators are fighting in a legitimate declared battle, and they are doing the bidding of their commanders, but acts of war should be limited to actual declared war, and be between armies, not vicious attacks on the innocent civilian population, as it is with terrorisim.

This may be difficult for some to comprehend, but believe it or not some people do not like to talk on the phone. If you don't have anything to say, why bother calling?Isn't there some way you could meet in person, wouldn't have to be like a date or anything, just meet some where for a real visit, If you are in school, you could get together for homework, or if you have simular interests, maybe attend a ball game or visit some local attraction. What outdoor activities do you enjoy? Would she like to get together for a bike ride? If you have a car, something to do this time of year would be to drive around looking a Christmas decoration people are putting up on their houses. See this is what I have been trying to tell all you young whipper snappers. You spend too much time on phones and computers and not in actual direct personal contact with your fellow man.

I wouldn't say it was more difficult, but it certainly is underrated and definatly under paid! As a housewife, (and please, lets not start this politicly correct garbage and changing the title to house maker) you don't have a boss standing over your shoulder all day telling you what to do and not do at any given moment. Unless you happen to be married to some dip stick that comes home and runs his finger over the top of the door to make sure you dusted there. I do worry about future generations who are not raised up in a stable, loving home. Children learn what they are exposed to and for good or bad, they acccept it as the "norm." It would be so much better for society in general if parenting was to be left to the parents and not interfered with by the government. A stay at home mom has the oppertunity to give that stability to her family.

Without a doubt there are a lot of really bad drivers out there. Have to admit though, I would not of known the meaning of that first sign you pictured, don't remember every seeing one like it, maybe it's just a UK thing?I loved your tailgating picture! All that open road and there's the idiot parked on the guy in front of him's back bumper. I take tailgaters. I have this tendency to tap my brakes when people start parking on my bumper, usually get's their attention and makes them back off. I have a bumper sticker I keep forgetting to put on my car, it says, "Stay off my tail, I'm not in heat." Just a few days ago I heard an ambulance coming up the highway. I could hear it for a long way's off, my ears are good at picking up the sounds of sirens, self preservation for my own hearing I guess, as when the dog hear them they all start to howl like crazy, which when you are inside the kennel building can be deafening. I noticed the ambulance was also honking his horn, which they don't usually do. I heard the honking for quite some time, and finally when they went buy the house I saw the ambulance was stuck behind a car that was not pulling over. the ambulance had to have been behind that car for a LONG ways, there was no reason the jerk in the car should not of noticed him. I seldom wish a ticket on anybody, but I found myself hoping the guy in the car got one, for impeding the ambulance. He sure deserved it.But I think these days the biggest threat to public safty on the highways is the cell phone. What is it about putting one of those things next to your ear that caused people to instantly go brain dead? People talking on the cell phone pay ABSOLUTLY NO attention to anything around them. Watch people on the phone when you go by them if you don't believe me. They are staring straight ahead not looking around, suffering from total tunnel vision, with a dazed look in their eyes.

Unfortunatly, tying him up is not an option, and he only cut's his little shine for the first few minutes after I walk out into the pasture. And since he's never even been on a leash, he would only freak out if he was tied up. He's just happy to see me and is trying to show off. Boy, he is really proud of that jump and spin trick he learned. He thinks it's great fun, today he was bouncing all over the place and spining. Wish I would of had a video camera. Reminded me of a little kid that learns they can get dizzy and fall down from spinning in circles. At least today he stayed away from me while he practised his jumps. I got payback today though. He had some hair balls growing in his ears so while he was being still and getting petted I yanked them out. I even cornered a couple of the old girls and did some hair cutting on them. It will probably be a week before I can even get close to them again, so hopefully I'll be safe for awhile. Oh, his name is Bilbo. His sisters are Froto and Pippin. Froto is the bottom dog on the tottem pole. The others pick on her all the time, she's a mess. Pippin is the smallest, a lot smaller than Froto, but for some reason she doesn't get picked on like her sister does. Right now with the 4 adults, 3 juveniles, and 7 little pups, and not very many goats, there isn't enough for them to all stay busy, when we move the goats to the other farm, I will need all the older dogs as the property there is large and plagued with coyotes. Then when they have more ground to patrol and real dangers to the goats, I'm sure they will leave Froto alone, but right now she is sure catching it. I feel bad for her.

Now that's my kinda guy! Seriously, it would take about $300 a month to heat this house with propane, and probably more with electric. That just isn't in our budget. Oh, and Rob, in case you haven't heard about them, they have this wonderful invention now called a chain saw. So you don't actually have to chop wood anymore! Believe me, they are a major improvment over a 2 man cross cut. They even came up with a wood splitter. Only problem with them is you have to hoist the big chunks of wood up onto it to split. But it still beats whacking them with an ax. But you do get me to agree that on those days that it is too cool not to have a fire, but not really cold, wood heated houses end up being hotter than blue blazes, ours is anyway. When it's in the 40's or just above you still need a fire, but our house will hit about 90 when the fire gets going.

I think this is an excellent description of terrorism. It doesn't really matter if the terrorist is from a foriegn country, or home grown right in your own back yard. Anyone who uses terrorism as a means of persuasion should qualify. I don't think we overuse the word. Not sure we use it enough, and since our current comander and chief has his own religious convictions, I'm sure he will attempt to tone down the use of the word as much as he can get away with. After all, those are his values too. This on is a bit scary, but sadly, true. See, the thing is, the actual terrorists think they are the ones frighting for the greater good. Wether it is for their religous beliefs or whatever personal convictions they may hold. And not only human kind. Recently a woman was murdered by an animal rights freak because he didn't think she took good enough care of the mice in the labratory where they worked. So that low life peice of (&(&^() killed a fellow human over a damn mouse. Now there's sick for you. But animal right freaks are just as much terrorists as any muslem sucicide bomber. Yes, that we agree on completely. My problem with terrorists is that they attack innocent bystanders who have nothing to do with the supposed problems the terrorist percieve as an affront to their beliefs. I really don't think so. For example you could no more convince a muslim that killing infidels is NOT ok than you could convince me that rats and mice are equal to humans. It's ingrained into our belef structure and there is not likely to be any change. In some cases some tolerance could be found, a common ground, but not many are ever going to give up on their core beliefs, and if those beliefs include a no tolerance policy, I'm afraid it's a pretty hopeless idea.

Whoa, you had me going there for a minute, I thought you were a freshman in high school and had already made a baby! Took me a minute to figure out it was one of those experiment things with a toy baby. By the way, how did you do on that lesson?Both of you are still quite young. You say that you have a lot of the same interests and things, but as often happens as we grow older and more mature, sometimes our interests change. Just what exactly have you been quarling about? Is there anything else going on in your boyfriends life that can be causing some stress for him? Family troubles at home can bleed over into his relationship with you. Maybe he is worried about something else, or has feelings of insecurity about his future. Has anything else in his life changed? Parents divorce, or maybe haveing financial difficulties, that sort of thing could of put him in a bad mood. Maybe he is having trouble in school with a tough class or something. As someone already mentioned, keep the lines of comunication open! That is a very important thing in any relationship. I wish you the best of luck and I hope it all works out for you.

Well, yes, actually just yesterday I got a phone call from someone looking for an Olde English Bulldoggie. I had to tell him I didn't raise them, and he got a bit aggitated and said that I was listed in this book as a breeder of them, so I told him I used to raise Bulldogs, and I do (or course) raise Old English Sheepdogs, then he realized that he had looked up Old English Sheepdog.

Yes, we have one in our house too, and besides being fun it's sure nice to have a back up in case of power failure, since even if you heat with a propane furnace, if the electricity goes out the fan that circulates the heat from the propane furnace won't work. Our fireplace saved our butts a few times. But we haven't used it since we put in the outdoor wood furnace. Fireplaces can be neat, but they are dangerous too, especially when they are installed in carpetted rooms, like most peoples frount rooms are. Sparks can pop out and start fires, a good set of doors is very important and a screen to catch sparks too. And they are not the best in energy effeciency as a lot of heat goes up the chiminey, and if you don't close it down good, it can actually suck heat out of your house and up the flue.

That certainly sounds like every government employee I know! And we as taxpayers are footing the bill for this garbage. Do we have any Red Green fans here? He made a statement on one of his shows that I dearly love and still remember and use frequently. "When you stop learning you end up having to go to work for the government." It truely seems that way to me. Take for example a vet working for the government. No decent vet would work for the paltry sum the government pays, but if he is a lousy vet and so bad that he could not hold down a private practice, that is where he will end up. And then we all suffer because the government has poor quality people, but they are in pwoer because they work for the government, and they are the ones regulating the rest of us, even though they are too stupid to run their own business.

As a member of this older generation, lets consider this change you speak of. Change is not always for the good. We are seeing more and more children of very young age in never before heard of numbers suffering from health problems, the biggest being obesity. Sitting at a desk in school all day, then sitting at a desk playing computer games all night I will pretty much guarantee you is the culpret behind this modern day problem. When I was a kid the first thing I wanted to do was GO OUTSIDE and play. Having been cooped up all day in the school building was a suffocating experience and I could not of handled the thought of going home and sitting even longer at a desk. Kids played with each other, in parks or even in their own yards, or rode their bikes in the streets if they were in the city, or the country kids had pastures, fields and woods to play in. If there weren't many other children around out in the country, at least country kids had a dog to play with or a horse to ride. Perhaps even a cow or sheep or goat to work with to show in 4H club. When you are a child, remember, fun is also usually a learning experience. While you may learn about a computer the world is not made up of computers. When you sit at a computer all the time you do not learn how to deal with the natural world. Computers are made of plastic and circuts. When you press a button you know what the result will be. It's totally mechanical and predictable. But how are you going to learn to deal with the unpredictable? Interacting with people and animals are the only way a great many of life's lessons can be learned. The world is made up of people that you are going to have to learn to interact with as you grow up. No computer is going to teach you that. I love this statement. I still hold the old fashion belief that it is the responsibility of the parents to raise the children. But the way it works today, parents have little or no control of their children. As someone else pointed out, far too many of our childrens activities are scheduled, programed, and totally controlled. There is no space for spontainious play. The schools overload the children with "homework" which I believe is a complete infringement on the parents rights, it cuts out any time the parents have to give instructions of what they believe is important for their children to learn. And the general bleeding heart do gooders have made it so a parent has no way to control or deal with bad behaviour in their children. How are children going to learn respect or responsibility if they are allowed to do whatever they wnt, when ever they want with no reprocussiong for bad behaviour? We are raising a generation that are slaves to a little plastic box. It won't be hard for us to loose the liberties and freedoms we have enjoyed for generations if this trend continues.

Glad to have you here at Trap 17! Looks like you have a sence of humor, that is always a good thing. Now you can come back and make another post about some of your likes, dislikes, hobbies etc so you can get that post count up there and give us more to chat about therefore earning more hosting credits. I hope you like dogs and aren't one of those weird cat people....