Subj : slow the growing of g To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 07:37:00 Hi Daryl! DS> I've had a thunderstorm dump 4 inches of rain here, but not a DS> drop fell at the "official reporting stations". BM> Yup: we've had it rain on one hill here and not a drop on the next BM> hill. Literally 'spotty showers'! DS> That's also like damage from storms...one side of the street is DS> "blown away" (no pun intended), and the other side of the street DS> is untouched. Oh you've been waiting to use that pun for weeks! Wind patterns apparently aren't as smooth and blended as one thinks: have several wind spinners on the deck and one would think they'd pretty much spin all together or start in sequences (discounting friction and other design differences for now). Nope: "left" group might spin and none of the others will, so a bit of a breeze on one side but none elsewhere. BM> Probably/possibly so. I have no idea as to what incident you are BM> referring so a cautionary response. News reports will be incendiary -- BM> "if it bleeds it leads" -- so while a bit of the incident is true the BM> full context makes it false. For instance I once beat a dog with a BM> bike tire (it was off the rim). OMG I'm an evil person! The whole BM> story is my dog and a friend's dog got into a fight -- not a quick snap BM> but drawn-out fangs-bared, biting, etc. Us kids were trying to stop BM> the fight, I ran to the back yard and got the tire, ran back and BM> started whapping my friend's dog with the tire. Did stop the fighting BM> and no injuries to the dogs nor us kids. DS> First, PETA perverted the Creation account in the book of DS> Genesis...and I'll leave it at that. No "someone years ago left the 'r' out" joke?! DS> Second, the "if it bleeds, it leads", has always been the case DS> with news, journalism, etc. At one time, Easter Weekend was DS> "slow"...except for stories around the sunrise services, egg DS> hunts, etc. I did see a blooper one time on a church sign, where DS> it noted instead of "annual egg hunt", it noted "anal egg hunt". DS> Gad...we're hatching @$$holes now...maybe that's where all of the DS> politicians come from. :P That's one heck of an ectopic pregnancy! BM> Now I will also admit there are outright evil goings-on which have no BM> excuse. Puppy mills for one. In some cases probably a fine line BM> between a breeder and a mill but overall a breeder is conscientious BM> while a mill.... DS> Agreed. My late wife had always gotten her dachshunds (we only DS> had one at a time during our marriage) from a female breeder, who DS> was 35 years older than me to the day!! I'm sure she's dead and DS> gone now. We went out there to get a new one 3 months after we DS> had to have the one we had when we got married, put down, because DS> of declining health. Probably the most humane thing to do. DS> The dogs, male and female, "hump each other", not so much for DS> sex, but as "a dominance move" (they think they're the dominant DS> male or female). My wife preferred males, as even though they pee DS> all over the place to "mark their territory", it's cheaper to DS> neuter a male than it is to spay a bitch (female dog). Before the explanation we're thinking 'the other reason' but some humans even do it to assert their dominance. DS> Anyway, this little male "had a Viagra moment", and the look on DS> his face was like "Daddy...I have a problem. Will you help me fix DS> it??". My response was "Hell, no!!" . I was so embarrassed by DS> it, but my wife, and the breeder were laughing uncontrollably. DS> Apparently, a few years before that, the breeder told her DS> grandson about a similar incident, and her grandson said "Oh, DS> Grandma!!". Gee, he just wanted a hand! DS> I saw on YouTube this woman who has EIGHT dachshunds (is she DS> nuts??!!). One is named "Einstein", and another is named DS> "Meatball" (I don't know the names of the others). I would prefer to go with a smaller number: though retired I don't have the time (nor energy) to look after that many dogs (or any other animal) and prefer focusing on a small group than a large one. DS> Well, it's "bath day", and she tries to get all of them in the DS> tub, where she can clean them. Meatball was having none of it, DS> and she said "Meatball, it's time you grow some meatballs, and DS> get your bath". He basically said "Screw you, Momma", and walked DS> out of the bathroom!! Who says dogs have a limited understanding of a human's vocabulary?! ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... I asked myself if I was crazy and we all said no. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .