Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Chulio]

Holy cow! Glad everyone is OK

[guidofatherof5]

My insurance adjuster is coming by on Tuesday. Let's see, I have a $1000 deductible so the damage will probably be $1050 and if I take the money($50) my premium will increase $400 a year for the next 3 years. My out-of-pocket expense will be $1200, wait $1150.
What a bargain.

[guidofatherof5]

With all those "Sold" notices up I know who's buying lunch for the forum. Right, Shawn.

[EasternGirl]

That really sucks, Steve...sorry to hear that. On the money note, I may have mentioned that I got a job working for a home health agency as a nursing aide until I graduate. It doesn't pay a lot for the work we have to do, but I do enjoy helping people and it's great in the fact that I can make my own schedule. I can see as many or as few patients as I want, and pick the hours and days I want. Just got a couple of steady patients for the next three weeks working 5 hours a day Mon-Thur and 2 hours on Fridays. Will be nice to finally have some money. On a totally different topic, I got my first painful snake bite last night. My big girls Sadie and my dearly departed Cee Cee have always bit me during feeding time, so do my babies and one of my male easterns. Although they do usually draw blood, none of the bites have ever really hurt much. But last night I was putting Sadie back into her enclosure after she ate and she decided to start striking hard at my hand...got me really good on one finger...I actually yelled out and was bleeding a lot. Can barely see it today though. I did however tell Sadie that I am not speaking to her right now. She really doesn't seem to care...lol.

[guidofatherof5]

Hope you're okay Marnie.



Way to go Sadie

[guidofatherof5]

Looks like the T. radix Ranch will be getting a new roof and probably new siding because of the storm damage. That's a shame as both the roof and siding are only 5 years old. I'm still waiting for the final word from the insurance company.

[guidofatherof5]

More storms moving through the area as I type. Looks like heavy rain only. The damaging storms missed us just to the north.
We do have flash flood warnings for an area 7 miles north of the ranch and that was before this rain.

[guidofatherof5]

More storms moving through the area as I type. Looks like heavy rain only. The damaging storms missed us just to the north.
We do have flash flood warnings for an area 7 miles north of the ranch and that was before this rain.

The heavy rain continues as one storm after another roll through the area. Many flash flood warnings up for the area as the ranch sits less then a mile from the Missouri River.

[guidofatherof5]

The heavy rain continues as one storm after another roll through the area. Many flash flood warnings up for the area as the ranch sits less then a mile from the Missouri River.

Another 5 inches of rain last night. More storms forecast of this evening and again Sunday evening.

[guidofatherof5]

I channel surf in the hopes of finding something to watch with some redeeming qualities. Most of the time I'm disappointed.
I'm just wondering if anyone has notice what I have. I've seen a increase in reality shows that feature the killing of animals for so called survival.
Yesterday, I came across a show from the Discovery Channel called "Dual Survival" During this episode one of the idiots was out looking for food. Along came a rather small/young Porcupine. Too bad of it as it was shot with a homemade crossbow and then clubbed to death.
The word "killing" was never used but "harvesting" was.
It seems like our care and concern for wildlife is reaching a low, this type of shows certainly doesn't help to educate the public about conservation or animal welfare.
I'm disturbed by this trend and wondered if anyone else has noticed it or am I just over sensitive.