On 6/18/2014 7:20 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:04:09 -0300, wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:47:14 -0600, Janet Bostwick
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:26:49 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article >, Janet Bostwick
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I live out west. We have sage and grassy foothills, not at all like
>>>>> what is in TN (bigger hills leading up to the mountains). These are
>>>>> great expanses that are leased by ranchers from the BLM. All roads
>>>>> have cattle guards across them (an open shallow trench that is covered
>>>>> with metal grid.
>>>>
>>>> You might appreciate this, Janet. I have a friend who worked for the
>>>> USDA among other jobs before retirement. While at the USDA, his office
>>>> received a query from Washington. They noticed there were a lot of
>>>> cattle guards in Nevada and wanted to know what a cattle guard's salary
>>>> was. Now, this begs to be apocryphal, but he swears it happened to him.
>>>>
>>>> leo
>>>
>>> I gotta get me one of them jobs. ;o)
>>> Janet US
>>
>> How do you look in metal ? Sort of have a vision of Madonna-like wear
>>
>
> Oooooo, yes! Pointy bra?
> Janet US
>
LOL sounds like it could get pretty hot... and not in a good way!

Jill

On 6/17/2014 4:35 PM, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> When I lived in west TN I was on my way to Schnuck's (grocery store) one
>> morning and there was a cow standing in the middle of the two-lane road.
>> Of course this was well outside of the city so I wasn't really
>> surprised. The land on both sides *was* fenced, though, so I don't know
>> how the cow got out.
>
> Wire cutters. Any hardware store sells them. Even to cows if they have
> the cash.
>
I'm pretty sure cows keep cash in their leather wallets. <giggling>

Jill

On 6/17/2014 2:39 PM, Ema Nymton wrote:
> On 6/17/2014 7:41 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> Last year they had a nest in the pyracantha which is right by my
>> kitchen. I heard a horrific racket. I ran to the window in the dining
>> room. They were fighting a black rat snake! The snake had climbed the
>> tree and was trying to get to the hatchling in the nest. They managed
>> to scare it off. The next day, same racket, same snake. This time they
>> weren't so lucky. The snake snagged the hatchling and had it half
>> swallowed before I could get to the door. (I'm not sure what I could
>> have done about it, the poor thing was likely already dead.) Those poor
>> cardinals were distraught. They hung around in the tree, pipping
>> distressedly for an hour, before abandoning the nest.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Unfortunately, I saw that happen with bluejays and the birds squawked
> for at least an hour. Sad.
>
> Becca

Some people would say we're anthropomorphizing. Sorry, but the
cardinals I saw fight so hard to save their hatchling were definitely
upset. I'm sure your bluejays were, too.

Jill

On 6/18/2014 4:51 PM, Terrence Crimmins wrote:
> I get jealous reading about all the birds you all see. I live in Baltimore,
> and there's not much birdlife here compared to you all.
[corrected line wrapping]

What happened to the Baltimore orioles? j/k

> What excites me is seeing the comeback of hawks and eagles.

We've got some bald eagles nesting where I live. Plenty of hawks and
even some nice big great horned owls.

[Google Groups for posting sucks.]

Jill

On 6/18/2014 6:55 PM, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> On 2014-06-18 4:51 PM, Terrence Crimmins wrote:
>
>>> The big thing in the news here was about a bull that escaped from a
>>> butcher house down in the inner city and was running at full gallop
>>> down Pennsylvania Avenue until the Police shot it! I guess it was a
>>> danger to people; mind you, this was right in inner city Baltimore,
>>> and a lot of people were surprised that there was still a butcher
>>> house down there. That sure made the news. I wonder if they wanted
>>> the Bull back- for I'm sure that was a big expense to lose it!
>>>
>>
>> That would be a slaughter house not a butcher shop.
>
> Could be both; the slaughterhouse here is owned by a local butcher and
> adjoins his butcher shop.
>
> Janet UK
>
>
I'm pretty sure what the OP is calling a butcher house *is* a slaughter
house in the US. It's not a shop where they sell steaks next to where
they butcher the animals.

Jill

Though currently a resident of Baltimore, I grew up in Pittsburgh- and am an incurable Pirate/Steeler fan. I don't know if the Bucco's will be able to make it this year with a team half full of retreads. I can never resist reminding the Baltimoreans how the Pirates beat them twice in the World Series back in the 70's.

Thank you for correcting me, as slaughter house is the correct term. I'm just a sissy and a city slicker, and have to grope in the dark for terms like that. My only experience with that sort of thing was a boys camp I went to in the summer as a child in the wilds of western Pennsylvania, where the sardonic counselors would make us go to a chicken slaughter house to gross us out. Of course we'd grimace up at the chickens hanging upside down and say "Yuck!" etc.

On 6/19/2014 11:36 AM, Terrence Crimmins wrote:
> Though currently a resident of Baltimore, I grew up in Pittsburgh- and am an incurable Pirate/Steeler fan. I don't know if the Bucco's will be able to make it this year with a team half full of retreads. I can never resist reminding the Baltimoreans how the Pirates beat them twice in the World Series back in the 70's.
>
> Thank you for correcting me, as slaughter house is the correct term. I'm just a sissy and a city slicker, and have to grope in the dark for terms like that. My only experience with that sort of thing was a boys camp I went to in the summer as a child in the wilds of western Pennsylvania, where the sardonic counselors would make us go to a chicken slaughter house to gross us out. Of course we'd grimace up at the chickens hanging upside down and say "Yuck!" etc.
>
[Not bothering to fix the Google Groups lack of line-wrapping this time]

I guess you wouldn't have fared well in Bangkok, where chickens hanging
from their necks in shop windows (usually covered with flies) were the
norm.

Jill