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16731. arkymalarky - 9/25/2005 12:37:04 AM Gotta go to the porch now. Too bad it wasn't this neat outside when the computer and satellite were screwing up. 16732. wonkers2 - 9/25/2005 1:52:48 AM I've read Catch 22 a couple of times. It's one of my all-time favorites. It's also my youngest son'e favorite book. I find satisfaction when my children like books or movies I liked. Usually it's not on my recommendation but by their chance discovery. (They don't respond readily to my recommendations.) 16733. wonkers2 - 9/25/2005 1:55:22 AM My two oldest children liked "The Lord of the Rings." For some reason I never read it nor did I see the movie(s). My daughter's cat is named "Frodo." 16734. arkymalarky - 9/25/2005 2:18:00 AM Hey! My parents had a dog named Frodo.
Well, the weather was cool, and now the electricity's out. I'm on my laptop with the dialup modem hooked up, but not for long on battery power.
It's rained hard pretty much all day. 16735. arkymalarky - 9/25/2005 2:18:38 AM Cool as in neat, though it's fairly cool as in cool. 74F. 16737. Ulgine Barrows - 9/25/2005 3:01:48 AM 16687. Ms. No, that is some gorgeous tooling. I have some bags from my grandmother that don't have as much detail.
16738. Magoseph - 9/25/2005 1:08:33 PM Sorry, Ulgine, but 16736 had to go. 16739. Magoseph - 9/26/2005 11:34:47 AM Hello, everyone! Did you have a restful weekend, Mac? Not much to relate from here. It has been raining all weekend, not cold yet, though.
Ali, how was the birthday party, and Ms. No, were you able to go to the 12th Annual Hart of the West Intertribal Pow-Wow? Judith, how did the dinner last evening turn out?
I hope that we hear soon from Jen. It’s worrisome not to know anything.
16740. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 3:51:21 PM Ulgine, I'd love to see pictures. I'm always hunting for design ideas now. 16741. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 4:04:57 PM Hi Mags!
Yes, we did get to the Pow-Wow and I had a great time but didn't take many pictures at all --- we were asked not to unless we had specific permission from the families dancing.
I managed to take one or two before I knew it was verboten. But I didn't bring my connector cable to work with me today so I can't load the pictures until I get home this evening.
Paxton had a great time but I think he got a little bit of a shock. There were lots of "dead things" which he thought was very cool when his dad was talking about it but when we went over to a vendor who was selling pelts and claws and bones and the like, P got a little upset that somebody would kill a bunny.
"Why'd they have to kill it, Auntie C?"
oh shit. No parents around. What do I answer? Well, thank god it's the rabbit fur he's asking about and not the fox.
"Well, honey, people use the fur to make things and we eat rabbits too."
"People eat bunnies?"
"Sometimes. You just ate a hot-dog, didn't you?"
"That's not a bunny."
"No, but it's a cow."
"Oh.....Hey! What're those?"
And on we moved to the bowls of coyote and badger claws. Crisis avoided. I'm sure it'll come up again later. Maybe I should've mentioned it to my brother? I didn't even think about it later on.
He'll be 5 this month. Maybe a little young to start thinking about the fact that we raise some animals just to kill them for their skins, but at the same time I couldn't lie to him or make up stories about how they were just animals that died of old age or took off their clothes or something.
16742. alistairconnor - 9/26/2005 4:11:11 PM So he's five, and he's not killing animals yet?
City boy? 16743. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 4:31:07 PM Yes, his other grandparents live in Wyoming, but they don't farm or raise livestock.
I think I was about 5 when the news got broken to me. We were living in Snow Hill in this huge old farmhouse and we had a tenant downstairs who was raising a pig off in a pen in the woods near the house.
My friends and I used to go out and feed it table scraps and stuff and one day I went out and it wasn't there and I asked my dad what happened to it and he told me Ron took the pig to a barbeque. I don't think I cried, but I was a little blue. I'd likely have been more upset if the pig was less smelly or friendlier, but honestly, visiting the pig in the woods wasn't all that frequent an occupation.
I was vastly more distressed when Reddog splashed mud on my Pooh-Bear the one time I took him outside to play. I was hysterical because I thought he'd drown if my mother put him in the washing machine. 16744. Macnas - 9/26/2005 5:07:49 PM 5 years old eh?
That is a bit young. I didn't drown my first litter of kittens 'till I was at least 8. 16745. judithathome - 9/26/2005 5:33:54 PM My grandfather raised rabbits to eat and I used to play with them in their pen...I think I saw him kill one for dinner when I was about 8 years old. Never ate meat at his house after that. 16746. judithathome - 9/26/2005 5:46:31 PM Magos, our dinner was great, as usual, and the librarian from New Orleans had a great time, despite the fact out host's neighbor (who is in love with him even though he has assured her it is not reciprocal) was very rude about us bringing the girl. The librarian looked spectacular and the host was very impressed with her clothes...she made a little joke about wearing Shelter Chic and charmed everyone but the host's snotty neighbor, who spoke not one word to her all night and left early in a snit. She told the host, who walked her across the street to her house..."You'd better get back to your little gift that Judith brought you tonight."
I thought she was beyond rude...to be hateful about a young woman who had just lost everything she owned and had watched her cat drown as her house was engulfed in flood waters and who spent 5 days and nights in the Superdome using an empty plastic water bottle as a pillow while sleeping on the floor. It certainly lowered my opinion of that neighbor. 16747. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 6:14:34 PM Women can be so catty. Just plain vicious. It's bizarre. I mean, I have lots of female friends and I adore women in general, but I'm very aware that there are harpies in our midst. 16748. judithathome - 9/26/2005 6:16:33 PM Well, there certainly was one at dinner Saturday night!
That might make a good short story title..."Harpie At My Table" 16749. PelleNilsson - 9/26/2005 6:28:51 PM A couple of weeks ago, a feminist party was founded here amidst great ado. A leadership council was elected, but the week after it fell apart in a catfight between the HBT-persons and the heteroxuals. "She's just a middle-aged, bourgeoise hetero hag" is one of the more memorable phrases. "To have sex with a man is gender betrayal" is another one. 16750. jayackroyd - 9/26/2005 7:05:28 PM So much for those dour Swedes I'm always hearing about. 16751. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 7:46:22 PM You know, radical feminists wouldn't sound so incredibly stupid if they'd quit saying stuff like that. I mean, honest to god, when your political philosophy flies in the face of biological reality you're just a hack.
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