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Jim
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Jul 01, 2013 10:12AM
Best be careful of the cheese then. It probably has gluten in most.
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Doesn't cheese contain lactose (not gluten)?Gluten comes from wheat, no?
Wiki says: "Gluten (from Latin gluten, "glue") is a protein composite found in foods processed from wheat and related grain species, including barley and rye."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten
You'd think. My daughter has to watch gluten & it is used in most everything to give it texture.
Gee, that really limits one's choices, doesn't it!
Very limiting. Seems that unless a processed food says 'gluten free' in big, bold letters, it probably has it. Even drinks & other things you wouldn't think would need it.
Yesterday we got out new couch. YAY!!! It caused a fair amount of rearranging, but we had some extra help. Not only was Erin around, but a kid from down the street dropped by. He does so occasionally. He rides Marg's bus & likes her. Apparently I'll do when she's not around so I wound up making him lunch & we shot BB & pellet guns for a while until she & Erin got back. For a 14 year old, he's not terrible. Glad he doesn't show up too often, though.Other visitors showed up too; the mule mare from down the road & another neighbor's kid (She's 20 or so.) chasing her. Erin made the mistake of grabbing the broken cable that was trailing from the mule's halter & it whipped around to bash up her hand pretty badly. Probably didn't break her finger, but came awfully close. I managed to get it & snub it around a post, then reeled her in just about the time her owner showed up. I let him drag her home while I drove his truck back to his house.
Jim, I'll bet that 14 year old kid has a lot of fun at your place!Do animals get loose and wander around much where you are?
How is Erin's hand doing?
The other night I almost ran over a family of baby raccoons in the road. Fortunately I was able to put on the brakes in time. They were so cute. They looked a bit frightened and I don't blame them. They were scurrying in all directions as I came closer and closer.
Erin is sore, still can't use her finger much.How often animals get loose & wander around depends on the animals, what the neighbors have at the time, & the weather. If you're talking dogs & cats, constantly. Livestock, a few times a year, depending. When the neighbor west on KY 12 had his daughter with him, she kept a mare in a small paddock of electric fence who came to visit at least once a month for a couple of years. She didn't have enough feed, a crappy fence, & she was lonely.
Doug, the 4th neighbor down Mount Zion, has had several different equines & most have come to visit a few times a year both to the front & back of our property. He's only 1/2 mile away, so when his fence through the woods gets squished by a falling tree or branch, they come up the back way sometimes, although usually they head up his north fence line to the road & then up to our house.
It's a long walk when they come up the back fence line because we have to go further west to that neighbors driveway, out to KY 12 & then all the way around two sides of our property to head back south on Mount Zion to his house. We can't cut through our property or our horses would mob us.
Doug's equines seem to prefer our horses to his southern neighbor's stock. They have over 100 goats, a couple of emus, a donkey, 2 llamas, & an alpaca there, not to mention a few dogs & cats. They have good fencing, so we don't see any of their stock, although the steers across the road came up one time when a pickup went through the fence.
The third neighbor down has chickens, but they don't stray much except into the road occasionally, although the 2d neighbor now has one roosting in his garden shed.
As for the rest of the roads, I just drive carefully. To our east, a couple of people have chickens that are out on the road constantly. There are a lot of farms to the west with cattle that get out occasionally. I met a big Angus bull on the way to work one morning & another has been out in about the same area a couple of times in the afternoon.
Deer are more of a driving threat & there's usually a coon, possum, or skunk dead on the road somewhere within a mile & I dodge at least one every morning. Possibly the biggest danger is meeting with meeting a tractor or combine that is way too wide on a blind curve, although the folks hauling scrap metal up to the junk yard can be worse. The other day I met a flatbed truck with a car sitting sideways on the bed just as I came over a hill.
today our apartment has a Holiday Potluck. I am planning on a great meal! Tonight, many of us will sit on the patio (we have picnic benches there) and watch fireworks!
Jim, you sure live a rural area, with all those folks who have so many animals. How does Doug manage all those goats? What does he do with them?
MaryJL, sounds like you had a good 4th of July. It was so hot here that I just sat by a fan and watched a movie. :)
Doug doesn't have the goats, his neighbor to the south, Don & Marilyn, have them. They're Boer goats that they make their living on. They raise them for meat. There's a meat packer about an hour away, just over the river in Indiana, that buys them for a good price.We had a very cool, rainy day yesterday & it looks like we will again today. So much for my plans to get lots of mowing & weedeating done this long weekend.
Jim, I've never eaten goat meat! I've never even THOUGHT about eating goat meat! LOL Wonder what it tastes like.As for rain, we've had an incredible amount of rain here over the past few weeks. It absolutely POURED tonight. It even poured during a performance of a play at our local Wood Theater! The rain on the roof almost drowned out the dialogue!
That reminds me... the other day I went to Westport, NY, to see a play at their tiny "Depot Theater". It's actually located at an Amtrak train station. When a long train went by, making lots of noise, the performers froze in their places and waited for the train to pass. I've never seen anything like that!
You can see a picture of the Depot Theater here: http://www.depottheatre.org/
If I've had goat meat, it was so long ago that I can't remember the taste. No one around here sells it or we'd have tried it. I guess one of the Mexican shops would have it. I wouldn't mind trying it.We had 2.5" of rain as of noon yesterday & it stopped. By dark, it was just getting dry enough to think about mowing, but at 3am it started up again. We have another 1/2". It's been coming down nicely. No huge downpours & the temp has been between 65-70. Not typical for July at all.
I've had goat baloney (or balogna, for spelling purists), back when we lived in the Shenandoah Valley in our early married years, and liked it. (Of course, I don't have a sharp sense of taste.... :-) ) But that came from a place in Pa. that sold it; the goats we and our neighbor owned (well, we owned a half-interest in one of them) were mostly dairy goats, and while we sold some of the males for meat, we didn't butcher any. (I like goat milk, and goat-milk ice cream, also. :-) )We've had some rainy days here recently as well. Yesterday was sunshiny and hot, though, and today seems to be shaping up the same way.
For some time now, my computer has been booting up just as rapidly as it ever did. I'm beginning to think the trouble earlier was just a temporary glitch, and that I won't need to put it in the shop after all. (Yay!)
Interesting about the goats. All I ever knew about goats was from the folk tale entitled: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff". :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-5Kg...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thre...
PS-I just found out that a "Billy Goat" is simply a male goat! LOL Live and learn!
We had more rain until mid afternoon. I think that's it. I hope so. We got 4.5" in the past 3 days, so it had plenty of time to soak in. No big winds, but I have 3 trees down, one across the west fence in the woods. Nothing that will let the horses out, but the dogs & goats could, so I need to get to it ASAP. No getting out there today, though. Too much hill that's too wet & slick. Depending on how it is tomorrow morning, I might just cut the tree free & get the fence up, leave a full cleaning until it dries a bit more.Billy goats are now called 'bucks', not billies, properly. Nannies are now does. Just like deer which they resemble in many ways.
What kind of fence is it, Jim?
Stock wire.I got all Mom's deer pictures scanned in finally. A whole album, over 150 pictures taken over a decade of a few different deer Mom raised after their mothers had been killed on the road. There are some good ones, but it was a real chore.
Deer are such beautiful animals! I wish they could be made into domestic pets like dogs.
Mom's just about were until they matured. I have pics of one in the house around the Xmas tree. Once they hit puberty, they wandered off, though.
Charming building for the depot play. What play did you see? Talking about eating goat meat reminded me that I was startled to see Ostrich offered as an entre at a cafeteria in Montroux, Switzerland.
Nina wrote: "Charming building for the depot play. What play did you see? ..."Nina, the performance was a musical comedy entitled: "Route 66". See a description at the following page:
http://www.depottheatre.org/mainstage
Can't imagine eating ostrich!
I don't remember what I ate but it wasn't ostrich. I thought it odd that it was in a cafeteria.
Last week, Erin & I stood on the back porch & enjoyed watching a fox eating bugs in the field just a few hundred feet from the house. He apparently got a little too happy 2 days ago & got caught by Lily & Amber. Pixie wasn't feeling well, so wasn't there, thankfully. The other two wound up getting stitches trying to get him out from under a log. $231 worth. Ugh. The first night was rough sleeping. Both girls were upset. I barely got any sleep between Amber thinking the fox was around which meant she'd run across me & leap off the bed barking. Lily kept whacking me with her cone as she cuddled. The cone upsets her, so she demands to be cuddled, although a 45 lb, rangy Pointer is a pretty big lap full. When she sits on my lap, she often presses her forehead against mine, so my head winds up in the cone, too. I take it off if I can watch her, but I have to do so closely or she'll scratch & tear her wound open.
Amber doesn't need a cone, although her stitches are almost in the same place under her neck. Lily's must itch. Amber probably doesn't have any feeling left there, besides being a tough terrier while Lily's skin is much softer.
Night before last, I slept like a rock until a sinus headache woke me up this morning at 3:30, just an hour before I normally get up. By the time the aspirin was kicking in, it was time to get up. Not the way to start the day. Last night, I FINALLY got a decent night's sleep.
Hope the worst is over for the household. Did the fox get away?
For now, the fox is still at large. Next time I see him, I won't be shooting pictures of him, though.;-)
Lily went out into the field in her cone. The horses all thought she was wild! Speedy danced about & wouldn't eat with her in the paddock. Chip thought she was mildly interesting, but that was it. Rascal & Topaz were a bit leery, very curious, & went after her for a closer look. She ran back into the yard to escape them. Probably a good idea. Rascal likes to paw at things.
Jim, I enjoy reading about the adventures of your animals. We're currently babysitting our son's dachshund, Mocha. She's a barker... yip, yip, yip. Whenever she wants something, she yips. A very determined personality. Very different from our Maltese, Romeo, who is very compliant.Meanwhile, we've been very involved with our kids who are currently camping on the islands. Never a dull moment! :)
We have an anti-bark collar that we often use on Pixie at night. She jumps up & starts barking as she runs out of the house. The collar shocks her a little & stops that. It's amazing how soundly she sleeps when she's not working herself up.Lily went coneless today! We think it was a bit of a burn from the clipping of the hair around the cut that was itching her, so Marg carefully put Desitin (diaper rash medicine for babies) around the area without getting any on the stitches. Marg keeps it around for the horses, often mixing it with something else when they get scabs on their pasterns from wet grass.
If Mocha were our dog, I'd consider using an anti-bark collar. Sometimes we all can't hear each other talk when she starts barking. It's really annoying.I remember Desitin! Used it a lot on our babies. Didn't know it was still around.
A lot of those old medicines are still around, but they're not as flashy as the newer ones, so people don't see them. They often work as good or better than the new ones. There's so much marketing now that is misleading, even outright lies. When I was little, Mom always used to doctor all our dings (horses, me, dogs, or whatever) with Bag Balm, a patent medicine for dairy cows. She still uses it.
Call me an old poop ( dare ya!!), but I don't think you should have to read the book in order to appreciaie the movie---should stand on its own. We have a doxie, too. Someone abandoned it at our house--- She NEVER stops barking(except time out for meals)--loves to get under things: the house, the blankets, the bed, the boardwalk...
I took the stitches out of the girls today. They were in really tight. Amber's cut was smooth & looks good. Lily's was much more jagged & gapping more than I like, but with the stitches as tight as they were, I'm glad we did it tonight & together. Definitely a 2 person job. Marg had to hold their heads & a flashlight. My eyes aren't what they used to be, even with glasses.
Jim, I wonder why they call it Bag Balm.
Arnie, Yes, Doxie's like to get under things. That's because they were bred to "flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals". They are always "burrowing". :)And yes, a movie should stand on its own. But that's no guarantee that it will ever match the book.
Jim, who put the stitches in?
Bag Balm is for dairy cow udders, Joy. Their bags. Helps keep their teats from getting chapped & protects them. Mom used to hand milk a small herd up in Maine as a teen. She also drove a team of horses to pull logs out of the woods. I have a picture of her standing on the team's butts with the reins in her hands around somewhere. I need to scan it to preserve it.The vet put the stitches in, but it's an hour driving round trip & no need for a vet to take them out. I keep a pair of hemostats & surgical scissors around for the job on us & the animals & keep them in my computer toolbox since I use them for that, too. (The scissors are great for trimming Cat5 ethernet wires & the hemostats can grab the tiniest jumpers out of hard to reach places.) Mom always used to use sewing scissors & her finger nails. The kids said I was better at it than she was. I think it's the tools that make the difference.
I'm bossless. The work boss is in Holland for a week. The REAL Boss (my wife) has taken off to visit my daughter down in Nashville for a few days. The animals & I will have to struggle along without her. It's doable, but a pain.The poor dogs will have to eat when I get up which is 2-3 hours earlier than they're used to, although their evening feeding should be on time. The goats will get let out of their pen over an hour late. The horses will likely be ready to eat since I'll be feeding them at night rather than noon. I won't plan on getting much work done around the place since I'll also have to do all the watering, too.
Absence definitely makes the heart grow fonder, especially when you have to take over the chores for someone else!
;-)
Hey Joy, Imho, there are some occasions, rare as hen's teeth, when the movie surpasses the book---The movie "Ragtime" ('81) is one example. There are others, but I'm drawing a blank on that right now.
Jim. my husband especially liked your line, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder..." I am leaving for San Diego next week and he must water flowers, clean floors, vaccum etc. Not as many chores as you, however but he sympathizes as he has been left many times to care for an Irish setter and a sick cat.
Jim, I hope you and the animals survive while "the boss" is in Holland. :) Thanks for explaining about the bag balm and the stitches.Today I was thinking of you. I toured the UVM Morgan Horse Farm in Vermont with a group of Red Hatters. What beautiful horses! http://www.uvm.edu/morgan/
PS-The foal was adorable!
Arnie, I LOVED "Ragtime" (the movie). See my comments about the book and movie here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Nina, enjoy San Diego. It's great the way you keep on traveling. What's happening in San Diego?
PS-About the Morgan Horse Farm, here are links to photos of the horses:http://www.uvm.edu/morgan/?Page=media...
http://www.uvm.edu/morgan/?Page=media...
http://www.uvm.edu/morgan/?Page=media...
http://www.uvm.edu/morgan/?Page=media...
Those horses are gorgeous!
They are pretty horses. I've never known one, though.
Joy, thanks for sharing the Morgan horse pictures. I'm going to show those to Barb, too; I know she'll love them!
"Ragtime" is one of my all time favorite films---the screen writers were wise to just take the Coalhouse Walker story and build it around that! Cagney was the cherry on top of the sundae for me!---not to mention Randy Newman's beautiful score!
Joy, I am going to San Diego to visit my son, six grandsons and one granddaughter and two great granddaughters. And to celebrate my daughter in law's birthday on Saturday, 27th July. Also, my son is driving me to LA to visit old friends and to spend the night. She has a guest cottage on her property so my son can sleep there. I am not going because of the weather but that will be a bonus; it's inthe seventies, rather than the nineties here.
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