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Seems to me any rambling is ON topic...

Goats eat everything that neither sheep nor cows eat. Here in the Hill Country, that includes cedar (a Juniper). Sheep eat grass but are also browsers (leaves and stems of shrubs). Goats are mainly browsers but will eat grass. Cows eat grass and some weeds. Horses are more like cows but since they only have a single stomach, can get sick easier than the the rest of this group (which all have a different digestive system).

When I lived in Georgia, one of the restaurants in Athens had goat every Thursday. People flocked in for shredded barbequed goat. Never had the nerve for that one... the fried okra, black-eyed peas, green jello with carrot shreds, and sweetened tea were all enough for me. I quit being very experimental after a bus trip around the state with a group of Yankee professors during which we were fed by Kiwanis and Masons. Here in the Hill Country, there are TONS of goats and they mainly get sold to large eastern cities... MUSLIMS.

I raise sheep. You don't eat ALL your lambs, for goodness sakes... mainly, just the boys

Is this simply because you're a female????

Just to prove, I can ramble faster than most people can post.....

I'm movin' to Loosianna.....I love fishin' drinkin a beer and hate baiting hooks....

Watch to the end...

This is the coolest video I've seen in a long time:


The Firecrackers.... you'll be cheering with the crowd..... PROMISE!

GOOD LORD, AF! What do you DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME to find these things?

I am truly laughing myself hoarse over here!

(on edit... isn't that horse?)
WHOA there

Uhhhhh A friend of mine sent it to me. I don't search for cheerleader videos! I swear!

Actually, this team is from the Cincy area.... a bunch of Middle School kids who have a Gym teacher that should get Teacher of the Year! No obese kids in this group! And I did get it from a friend in Laughlin....who sends (forwards) about 50 emails before heading off to work.

OK, AF. Good answer (shew!)

Ironically, even though I was the only girl who tried out for 6th grade cheerleading who DIDN'T MAKE IT (sorry, too uncoordinated!), I became the Mariemont Middle School (Cincinnati) cheerleading coach when I taught there in the early 70's. Cincinnati takes these type of activities very seriously (the schools really support their athletic teams), so I am not surprised.

Like the young people who are members of really astounding marching bands*, these girls trained for hours and hours. It is great that their video has hit the internet: they must be very proud.

*Imagine carrying something like a tuba (hey, a saxophone was bad enough) while trying to play the darn thing, remembering the piece, then remembering how many steps to the left or right, while wearing a hat that keeps slipping down over your eyes and wearing a very cheap, smelly wool uniform.

OK, I could read the reeealllly smalll print...

I'll never tell. Our son is living and working in Cinci...

I love Ohio.


THIS time of the year!

Hey, I tried to jump rope once in 1950 something....almost strangled myself.... I found it was safer to play with guns, knives and grenades.

Yeah I figure 250 lbs bouncing on the pavement on a couple of 12 x 3 in pads won't last long. Jumping out the hayloft was all I could handle as a kid.

Hey... athletic for me was riding my pony at full gallop bareback. When you are talking jumping... off the roof of the barn and into a manure pile was my best effort.

But to be fair, I qj of the age where, despite my having a polio vaccine before everyone else (my father had worked for one of the vaccine researchers), I did have polio when I was very small. I was always a little uncoordinated and a terrible runner... but get me on a pony... you didn't have a chance in Hades!

Don't think for a second that you could tell today that I ever had polio. I was the luckiest little girl on the planet that I had the earliest 1st vaccine. My paralysis only lasted for a few months when I was little... I can remember it... but it was traumatic enough to BE a memory.

My choir/singing/piano teacher had polio to the extent that he had one leg a good 6" shorter than the other and lived his whole life with a brace. I always looked at him and thought how lucky I was. Too bad he looked at everyone else and tried to figure out how he could get back at them because HE was crippled.

To ramble on.... Today I was listening to Hannity and a woman, I think her name was Diane... not sure... but she was Black and was MiddleTOWN, Ohio (Hannity said Middleton... there is no Middleton... there is only Middletown where I AM FROM!!!) and when she started out talking I could tell that both Hannity and I were thinking, OH BOY, this could be a challenge... but she said how frustrated she was that the NAACP was representing an element of Black people that she certainly did not endorse... that those people did not represent the bulk of Black people that she knew... Furthermore, she noted that they represented a time long gone and that we, Americans, had progressed far beyond the point of having to deal with this kind of racism.

Middletown, Ohio WAS the home of Armco Steel Corporation and several notable paper companies... an industrial town on the Miami River that runs into the Ohio, about 35 miles south. I grew up in the rural farm land just south of Middletown and my high school was all white. In fact, a Black family tried to move in during the very early 70's and got a flaming cross on their lawn. Middletown itself was a heavy mix of white and Black... and a friend of mine who had just graduated from high school with me got a shotgun blast to his chest when he tried to defend a white girl at a bar close to home when two Black basketball stars tried to make the move on her and were insulted when he came to her defense. I think he was the first to die... before my other friends that I lost in VietNam.

I was so proud of this Black woman. She was from my home town and her heritage had traveled through all of this to come to the same place that I had come. We are a nation of Americans, white, black, whatever dang color you want to call yourself, and she was pretty pissed that we are now trying to create events to separate ourselves. That is pretty much as she called it... and I could not agree more.

This woman, a sister from my home town, gave me hope that all is not lost.

Too bad that we have a Government that thrives on division.... You're right, leave people alone and they'll work it out. Having spent so much of my life in integrated workplaces and neighborhoods, I really found it odd that there was so much tension elsewhere.

I recall that when we were in Costa Rica in January, it was near the end of our trip that I realized that the entire country is a real mixed race/culture.... to the point that there was almost nothing that remotely seemed like "racial" differences... There was nothing apparently strange about a white woman with a dark man and a beige child, having dinner with other families... I don't know if that makes sense, but I didn't even realize it till the end of our trip.

That's probably our future, unless we permit our leaders (including Jackson and Sharpton) to divide us. Blacks in America aren't all the same.... Neither are whites. There are thugs and bums in both groups. There are success stories in both groups.

Morning!

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LMAO ADMIN..nahh...I was just in lah la land..wishin and hopin and prayin ...LMAO

morning guys

Morning JEEPER... * HEY i found a cool chat...hang on AND i will send you a link to it..TELL me if ie would work here..