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Post by zeldalithgow on Jun 15, 2014 7:22:39 GMT -1
 Happy Birthday Debbie Have a great day
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Post by valerie n scout on Jun 15, 2014 7:39:58 GMT -1
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Post by dollylanedales on Jun 15, 2014 14:22:31 GMT -1
Happy Birthday, Debbie!!
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Post by harveydales on Jun 15, 2014 14:34:23 GMT -1
Happy birthday Debbie. Hope you are enjoying the day. |
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Post by Debbie on Jun 15, 2014 16:05:20 GMT -1
 Many thanks for the birthday wishes!!! I'm spending a quiet one at home this year, but Eldon's already spoiled me silly with chocolates, roses, lemon meringue pies (yes plural  ) a couple of books from one of my favorite authors and a very cool scientific course on Colour. Night before last Eldon and I had to chase a bachelor herd of bull elk from our main pasture. Like teenagers/large groups of guys everywhere, they were trouble trying to happen. At first we were 'live and let live' until they crashed into the fencing next to the house  off you go! If you want to fight, take it to the 350 acre section set aside just for you next door! Silly moos.... too much testosterone. Then last night I guess our house mink killed something? Eldon said the sounds came from the sunroom and didn't last long, but was pretty loud. He was keeping up on the couch 'just in case'. Somehow I slept through it all, but if the mink duffed something in the sunroom, she was very tidy about it. I can't see anything amiss. Oh yes, and this morning I've already heard one of our eagles calling, the baby red tailed hawk begging for breakfast, and been watched by a chickadee and the male house finch  all in all, I'm pretty happy with my birthday.
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Post by Fi on Jun 15, 2014 17:17:11 GMT -1
sounds fabulous, all that wildlife (apart from the elk that is!). Glad you had a lovely day.
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Post by dalesnfellfan on Jun 15, 2014 21:01:27 GMT -1
Happy birthday Debbie glad you enjoyed your day How lovely to be spoiled rotten |
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Post by dalesponyrider on Jun 15, 2014 21:14:06 GMT -1
So glad you've had a happy birthday. Always eventful times at your place with all the animals!
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Post by maggie on Jun 16, 2014 12:35:58 GMT -1
So glad you had a lovely birthday Debbie  |
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Post by cadeby on Jun 16, 2014 15:38:36 GMT -1
Sorry I missed it, but belated Happy Birthday Debbie We had a Red Deer stag crash through some of our fencing a few days ago. He was just a single beast and smaller than your Elk, but still made a big mess, so I would hate to have a herd of them!!! |
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Post by cutemangurdi1 on Jun 16, 2014 22:05:04 GMT -1
Happy belated birthday, Debbie
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Post by Debbie on Jun 17, 2014 19:34:36 GMT -1
 I've seen those red stags and you have my utter sympathies! Even one can mangle a fence in the space of a sneeze  I hope your fence was easy to fix. I was so glad we were able to haze our idiots back over the fencing before they could do more than lower it. As for my birthday, I'm still trying to get over the sweeties  seriously, though, I feel sick at the sight of what's left of my chocolates and there's a looming last piece of pie that Eldon insists is mine  Did I mention what happened with Rita whilst I was reading in the sunroom? She's our greediest horse/pony, mother of the appaloosa colt, and honestly, she's really come into her own since he's left. She's still greedy, though  So I'm sat on the sofa, reading my birthday present book, and I watch Rita come up to the fenceline. She's noted a bit of 'tall grass' that the other horses seem to have missed. Let me say, I've run the lawnmower in that bit and the only 'long grass' over there is the intentionally planted lovage and garlic, neither are very tasty. Rita thinks she's got the upperhand, though since Coco and Reigny are at a distance, so she CHOMPS on her prize! ....  poor dear, I really can't think on it without bursting out in laughter, but she instantly gawps her jaws wide open, eyes rolling up in her head and she begins to shake it back and forth, all the while spitting it out and backing away from the fence. I did try not to laugh at her, but it was hilarious to watch her as she pulled faces and then began desperately dragging her tongue along the ground, trying for bits of grass, but spitting those out as well. I'm sure it was only the garlic she's gotten into, but poor girl, from her expressions I'd say she's not got a drop of Italian blood in her  she thought that was the most horrid piece of grass she'd ever sampled The wildlife and critters here are SO entertaining! I wish there was a way to share what they do with everyone. It's one thing for me to tell or even show people what happen, but I wish there was a way for others to get to experience these guys firsthand. Seems the older I get, the less 'wild' wildlife becomes
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Post by Blackshadow Dales on Jun 18, 2014 3:49:01 GMT -1
Happy Belated Birthday Debbie!!!
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Post by April on Jun 18, 2014 10:35:50 GMT -1
Best wishes for the year ahead xx
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) a couple of books from one of my favorite authors and a very cool scientific course on Colour. 
off you go! If you want to fight, take it to the 350 acre section set aside just for you next door! Silly moos.... too much testosterone.
all in all, I'm pretty happy with my birthday. 
I've seen those red stags and you have my utter sympathies! Even one can mangle a fence in the space of a sneeze 
I hope your fence was easy to fix. I was so glad we were able to haze our idiots back over the fencing before they could do more than lower it. 
seriously, though, I feel sick at the sight of what's left of my chocolates and there's a looming last piece of pie that Eldon insists is mine 
she thought that was the most horrid piece of grass she'd ever sampled 
