I wish to thank the people on the forum for the many hours of information , fun and laughs. I enjoy hearing about all your animals, and all the funny things you say makes me feel good.
Other than a large hair dog I do not have any animals. I can't ,not because I live in a city because if there is a well there is a way. I can not have the beautiful flower and veg gardens that many of the people on DG have, or that I one time had. Not because I am lazy but you see I am in pain, pain that nothing will get rid of. I look at the weeds in my one beautiful flower beds and cringe at the though of what would happen if I tried to pull those weeds. What would happen if I get down onto my knees, how would I get up. I read all the postings on this and other forums and I try to let people know that I care and that some one is LISTENING to what they say.
I am not asking for sympathy. But that you continue to make me laugh. Think before you say things, look at what is written, reread it a couple of times. Then if you do not agree, calmly say so, then get over it! Life is to short!
I have had the time to think about things. How people talk and write things. I know that if you give 3 people a page out of a book and ask them what they read you will get 3 different answers. Stop, think, reread and then reread again, and think again before you say anything. And remember you do not know what another person is going through. So before you get upset with them remember the old line about "walking a mile in some ones shoe"
Please!!!
And Thank You Again For the Laughs !
Sandy/Wren
A thank you and a few words.
What a Heartfelt ♥ thread Wren I'm glad we add happiness to your day and i appreciate your Honesty.
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Thank you
Awe Sandy! I had no idea. It is kind of nice to know situations.... Now it all adds up! Smooches to you and the demonsterer!~
very well said sandy, we love you
Thank you y'all You all brighten up my day big time.
Good post Wren, but geez, I seem to miss most of the drama on this forum, LOL. I keep seeing references to it, but I guess I don't read all the threads and just manage to miss a lot of it. Trust me, from what I HAVE seen (even the testy stuff), this forum is the essence of polite and helpful friendliness compared to some email lists I have been on!
I TO APPRCITATE THIS FORUM,I HAVE GOTTEN HELP WITH QUESTIONS I HAVE ASKED BEING A NEW CHICKEN KEEPER .AND SOMETIMES HAVE LAUGHED OUT LOUD, AND MY HUSBAND WHO WOULD BE IN THE OTHER ROOM WOULD ASK WHAT ARE LAUGHING AT? AND I WOULD SAY OH SOMETHING MY CHICKEN FRIENDS HAVE SAID AND HE WOULD MUMBLE TO HIMSELF CHICKEN FRIENDS WHAT ARE CHIIKEN FRIENDS ? AND I DO CONSIDER ALL YOU FRIENDS EVEN THOUGHT I KNOW NONE OF YOU WE HAVE A BOND BECAUSE OF OUR ANIMALS.AND I CAN SYMPATHISE WITH WREN107 I KNOW I`M NOT IN THE PAIN YOU ARE BUT EVERY YEAR ITS HARDER AND HARDER FOR ME TO GET UP ONCE I GET DOWN ON MY KNEES TO PULL WEEDS,I DON`T ENEN WANT TO THINK OF THE DAY THAT I WON`T BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
Wren, I know all to well what you feel like and have to deal with. I too deal with constant, nonstop pain that nothing touches. And to make matters worse, docs do not understand, can not relate and sometimes I think just don't want to understand.
Doctor's see so many people on a day's time frame and all have issues of their own. Doctor's must maintain some kind of insulation to be able to deal effectively with the individual or they would go nuts. But they can not deal with the frustration an individual deals with and especially when we look to them for answers.
I get so angry because I can't do things such as get up in the morning and go make myself a cup of coffee without feeling like I have to hit my medicine cabinet for at least Ibuprofen. Or, sometimes just walking can be a litteral pain in the knee. The headaches I get from anger can be a factor to deal with too.,
I live on Social Security Disability and belive me when I say, we know hunger, cold, and other life issues that a person should not have to deal with. Now, I am not asking for the world, nor am I asking that people pay for my way in life. I just want some dignity is all.
I would like to be able to live in a dwelling that is clean, quiet, without drug use all around me but that is not possible. My income won't let me and people have to be able to deal with their own issues their own way.
I have my critters but I would like to be able to grow my own food. I do the best I can in all things.
I try to maintain a smile on my face because I know that things could be worse, and in more years, they will be. What I have is not curable. So, I do my best to realize that I have been blessed even though it might not seem like it.
I have a dear family that I love, I have my dogs and cats and my birds, and things are slowly falling into place.
So, reader do not feel sorry for me. I don't want your pity. I do want your understanding and if you can see into your heart and wallet, give what you can afford, even if it's just pocket change, to your local charity to help people with a food box, maybe some much needed clothes on a person's back, or to help give a child braces for their legs.
You have no idea how far, those pennies can go.
I call it PENNIES FROM HEAVEN.
Thank you very much Wren for posting this thread and thank you also reader, for listening to me.
Copper
My grandmother gardened until she was 96. Walked out to the edge of the yard and gardened her way back home on her rear end until she hit the steps. She stopped when she could no longer bump her rear end up high enough by steps to stand...
I enjoy each and every one of you. Sometimes I think you're nuts. Sometimes you think I'm nuts. Sometimes I blow a gasket. Sometimes you blow a gasket. C'est la Vie!! I'm most likely to have trouble when DD and DH and work and everyday stupidity has been rubbing my fur the WRONG way....but you've put up and forgiven me and Dave's P&L loonies have gone on. I LIKE it this way...(well the forgiveness part -when we blow up it kinda bums me but as they always say "Nother day, Nother Wassail and there's always my rock..."
Sandy,
Blessings to you and all you've seen and lived through. None of us are here for long, we might as well cheer each other up when we can... hope you enjoy my postings..
Jay
I do! I enjoy almost all the postings even when I do not totally understand the chicken talk!!
I'm not sure the CHICKENS understand the 'chicken talk' LOL
Remember, here you are ageless, jointless, sexless, and best of all...
WEIGHTLESS
So you can dance with the chickens, run with the long ears, and thud with the rest of us...
=0)
I love the weightless part LOL
I am determined to prove the doctors wrong (am doing a pretty good job on part of it) and find one that can at least fix part of my.
sandy,
it is awesome to see u here on the poultry forum as well as others. this last year i've spent most of my time here and on other forums and i miss u and all my other garden buddies it's just not the same. i left the other forums due to drama but i realize how much i missed there and it's just not the same, i've not done any swaps or trades in some time on this site due to it and it's honestly sad because i loved and enjoyed it so much and made so many friends.
while i do not know or share ur pain, i do share ur passion in gardening, life, friends, great laughs and more. dave's has always been a family of friends even through the small drama parts that pop up now and then. i to look forward to comeing here everyday if i can if not close to it. DG has alway been full of tons of great info and learning but the heart of dave's is it's members and the life long friendships we have all built together and that is priceless in my eyes and worth every bit in it's self to be here the rest is just a bonus, iceing on the cake of life......
my heart and prayers to all of u in need, trust in god for that is the grandest friend and family of all.
since u enjoy animals as i do here is a pic of one of mine i don't share very often,lol. this is my leapord gecko smiley. smile and enjoy today and live every day as if it were to be ur last because life is to short.....
hugs to all,
silkie
Love your baby.. Do you know that we have a type of gecko down here. I can not reminder how to spell it. Indo-___ something or other but they are all female, no males.
The drama here is much better than that of family. LOL
I keep trucking alone. I am working on ways to still do things, sometimes it takes me days to get things done but I do. I'm looking into getting one of those garden work bench things. Maybe I can get up and down with that and get to those weeds. Plus my neighbor is looking for some side jobs so she may help me. And there is always Andre the demon child, he keeps me moving and laughing. I thought him to help me get up and it paid off a last month. I fall and he rushed over and stood by me, was not easy but with his help I get back up. And thought it took me over a month but I built half of a plant bench for my shade house. I am doing a lot better than the doctors said that I would. So I am happy.
Sandy, my heart goes out to you, not to feel sorry for you, but an understanding way. I know how dreary life can be.. and hard.. I won't go into the ugly details of my life, but I know how hard it can be.
I'm glad to hear that you get strength and joy from this site. I do too.
This place has been a source of joy for me for quite a while now.. Yeah, there are squabbles, and misunderstandings, and disagreements... but that is everywhere. I hope you continue to enjoy it here, despite what happens, and know that someone out there also hears YOU and gets warmth and comfort from YOUR words too. :)
zz Thank you and I will. I have learned to laugh or just shake my head and go one. It helps that I have a crazy sense of humor. LOL
Silkie I found the name of the gecko it is the Indo-Pacific gecko. The first time I saw one it was late at night and there was a small ghostly lizard on the wall. It is strange that there are only females, not a single male. LOL
It's probably one of those species where some females will turn into males during breeding season... we've got a blue tailed lizard here the same way.
The pope would be appalled...
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I think most males would be also. but I think that is taking woman's lib a little to far. LOL
i have never heard of them and had to look them up. they r cute i like how they r gostly looking, i have an albino i'll add below, but never seen one that was white like that.
when i looked up urs this is what i found-
Reproduction: Amazingly, this lizard is unisexual. Reproduction occurs by a process known as parthenogenesis: the development of unfertilized eggs. Eggs are laid in pairs under bark, in crevices, or in moist soil.
i didn't know anything reproduced like that, it's facinateing to me that something can live like that and evolve didn't know it was possible so u taught me something today,lol.
these r my other 2 leopards they r just different colors. randle is the albino on the left and blizzard is the baby i had shipped in from cal on the right.
Cool. I like them. DM would freak out if I get a reptile in the house. LOL
The only problem with them doing with out the males is they can not change. I hope that they survive all these cold spells.
I have always loved to learn. Wish that I had this lap top many years ago.
Those are very cool critters, I'm glad you've posted their pics silkie. =0)
They can still change... mutations occur all the time in our genetic material. Most are useless, some are lethal and the occasional one improves our chances of surviving changing times. So though they diverge more slowly (perhaps, it'd be interesting to know if their mutation rate is any higher than a bi-gendered species) they can change.
Or you wouldn't have albinos...
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The albinos are a different species than the Indo-pacific I wish I could find a picture. I have only seen them about 4 inches long. Same shape as the spotted ones in the picture. but ghostly gray white.
Ah, but I'll bet there are color variations in the Indo-Pacific as well. It would be interesting to know... =0)
I was a biology major in college, and loved genetics... I was at the very first recombinant DNA conference back in ??? '76, I think. So basic compared to what they can do now, but we were blown away.
i'll post an indo pic for u. yes mine r different species than her natives.
here is a pic of the native ones wren has there.
http://www.stetson.edu/~pmay/herps/hemiturc%201.jpg
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So yours have secret trysts in the moonlight?
I wanted to be a marine biologist but never could spell or pronounce those Latin names. I seem to have been born with a mental block when it comes to spelling. But I still love to read and study things. I am watching a program on Monarch butterflies.
Yelp! That is it. Very spooky when seen on a dark surface. I have seen one that was darker when I disturbed it day time lair
from what i read the indo geckos range from white to differnt shades of brown.
for my leopard geckos they come in many colors, sizes. i have normal colors. mine i think r called carrot tails at least smilie and blizzard r cuz they have the orange at base of tails. however randel's pattern i believe is called something else. i'd have to look it up again to see what her's is i can't remember now.
lol, i've not seen mine mate but smilie(male) and randel(female) r comeing of age and they r a pair, i think blizzard is a male since it shakes it's tail already if so i will have to seperate that one. they r nockturnal if that helps to answer ur question.
So yesssss, they will wait til you are sweeeetly tucked up in bed, ZZZZ-ing along and then they will have their leetle tryst, whispering tender gecko-ish endearments to each other and naming their future.... er, eggs? larvae? babies?
How have I managed to live soooo long and not know what every gecko knows.
{{head shaking}}
=0) Jay
I enjoy you all as well. Wren, you are a sweet person and the forum is better with you in it. Thanks all. I have come to enjoy my time cruzin through reading and sharing. Sharing and reading. {{HUGS}}
Wren I'm so glad that you are part of this forum. You give those drs h**ll! Do what makes you happy even if it takes awhile to do. I grew up w/ a very determined mom who defied everything the drs told her. Your spirit is what makes you who you are. And baby you've got it! {{{hugs}}} Sue
Thank you Hey it takes me longer but I get things done.