Re: visiting turkey at our house

April 16, 2011

Thank You Sharon,

I try, sometimes harder than others, to keep a sense of humor

about me, even when the squirrels are building condos in my

ceiling! A cousin of mine keeps telling me that she just can't

get over the sense of humor I have about this whole MS. What

else do we have, if we don't keep a sense of humor about the

whole Mysterious Situation? And one has to admit, some of the

crap that happens to us, is downright funny! [Like one of my

cousins, at a funeral visitation, telling another cousin, fairly

loudly, to "Ask Donna.. She's always got a stash!" and then

having everyone surrounding her and I turn around and look at me

like I'm a drug dealer or something.. when all she was talking

about was me always carrying something to drink, and Tylenol or

Advil. -- specially when I used a backpack for a purse back

then!]

I've only really begun to procrastinate on filing taxes since

filing has gone electronic. And that's because, no matter where

I put last year's "stuff" so it'll be safe and in a memorable

location.. that just doesn't happen! This Year, when I finally

finished (doesn't take long if one has AGI or PIN or whatever

they want to prove that you're you when e-filing) I put all the

returns in a big RED folder, clearly marked 2010 Tax Returns..

and had bury it in my undies drawer, in the bedroom.. THEN

I called his niece and told her where I would find them next

year when I have forgotten where I placed them for safekeeping!

With three of us knowing where they are, surely ONE of us will

remember next year!

So.. taxes are done.. and it looks like I actually got 's

W-4 (I think that's the form) information for withholding

correct for a change.... Well maybe not correct from the IRS'

standpoint.. but instead of just "breaking even" as the IRS

would like.. we're actually getting something back! Call it

"Forced Savings" LOL

I hope your turkey comes back.. I don't know that I could get it

into a "stew pot", even though it a terrific idea, because just

seeing her and knowing she was out there.. I'd already be

attached. Someone would have to go out and get her, but bring

her home looking "store bought" for me to make dinner out of

her..

When Earl was old enough to start hunting, he used to try and

talk his dad into going rabbit or squirrel hunting.. Another one

of my crazy rules was.. If you aren't going to eat it.. don't

kill it.. and I'm not cleaning or cooking it if you do kill it!

(not a rabbit or a squirrel anyway.. pheasant or turkey maybe)..

They didn't do any "small game" hunting after that rule was

announced. <grin> They could fill the freezer with

venison. That was perfectly fine with me, just not little

critters..

HUGS

|)onna

Very entertaining reading, Donna! We haven't

seen the wandering turkey back yet but I have a feeling she's

been coming to eat the cat food she can get to and visiting with

our turkeys. I wonder where she belongs? It's a mystery.

Good luck with your taxes. I feel so proud to say I did mine a

long time ago. I used to always go down to the wire with my tax

return but I've reformed:)

big hugs to you

Sharon

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From:

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To:

MSersLife

Sent: Fri,

April 15, 2011 12:09:28 PM

Subject:

Re: visiting turkey at our house

Another turkey to add to

the flock Sharon.. how cool is that.. wild to boot.. I'd

bet she's looking to be trying to sit soon.. kind of

makes me wonder if they aren't smarter than people think

as well.. and that they know full well they need a male

to help them get chicks.. are baby turkeys called

chicks.. I don't think so.. turkling wouldn't be correct

either... hmmm.. where did I leave that shifter for my

brain???

Oh.. the outside activity has started here as well..

This time it was Mr. Cardinal that came to tap on the

living room window.. to let me (only I wasn't out here,

it was .. this past Sunday morning).. know that

there was no seed in the feeder, and that there was no

bowl of seed on the Air Conditioner (keep it there in

the winter, so the birdies are up close for me to

watch).. So he filled the feeder on the fence..

A few of the Sputzies are back.. haven't seen the

sparrows or the Mourning Doves yet.. Did see Mr.

Bluejay... and one of my squirrels was on the A/C this

morning.. twice.. looking for food (maybe he found some

of the seed that was knocked into a vent during the

winter though, and that's why he was back twice).. One

of the other squirrels was helping themselves to the

sunflower seeds in the feeder yesterday & today..

wasn't the same squirrel because the one on the A/C unit

has a thin scrawny sad looking tail.. the one of the

feeder has the big bushy tail.. but I'm not sure which

of the bushy tails he was..

At least one of them made a home for the winter in my

roof/kitchen ceiling... someone should have gotten up

and put the flashing or soffitt or fascia or whatever

it's called BACK up after the wind blew it down last

summer.. but because they didn't do that.. and the home

was made.. and the winter store of nuts & berries

and seed and whatever else it is that squirrels collect

all summer were stored up there.. he wasn't allowed to

fix it in the winter.. and cause my buddies to starve

because they couldn't get to those stores.. AND they had

already planned their winter home up there.. so nope..

not shutting them out until spring.. [yes, my son, Earl,

said "Tell me that again, when your house burns down

because they gnawed through some wire up there].. And I

wasn't concerned about them wintering over up there..

well at least not until they started adding on to their

winter home.. and expanding from the kitchen, through

the laundry room into my master bathroom.. and I believe

maybe a small path to the opposite corner of my bedroom

as well.. THEN I started to worry a bit.. and when I'd

hear them somewhere other than, and sometimes even, the

kitchen.. I'd grab the broom and start tapping the

ceiling or the walls with it to make them behave and

move back to their original starting place and quit

chewing, scratching or gnawing or whatever it was they

were doing!.. LOL.. but I still wouldn't let anybody

climb up and close that spot off.. All I could imagine

was my poor little critters starving to death outside in

the cold & snow.. or inside up in my ceiling because

they couldn't get out to get a drink (and I could only

imagine the odor, if they did die up in there, come

summer)...

Now that the weather is nicer, and the squirrels will be

starting to collect for next winter... he can get up

there (and had better) and fix the spot while the

squirrels are out and about.. so they aren't counting on

my ceiling as their winter home this year..

I've got a opossum out there too.. pretty sure he lives

or sleeps behind the shed and uses the "growth" (wild

maple trees, raspberry bushes, grape vines &

Rhododendrons) growing on the other side of the fence,

as his playground.. Zucco finds him and chases him off

every chance he gets when he's outside.. I've never seen

him, but has.. Zucco knows exactly where to find

him.. fortunately he can't get to the back of the shed

(or the opossum would likely tear him up a bit).. but he

does make the opossum scramble for the other side of the

fence.. and I think he stands there and blows

raspberries at Zucco.. cause he knows that Zook can't

get him on that side of the fence. (neighborhood cats do

the same to him).

I really wish that I lived in a place like you do

Sharon.. I'd have saltlicks out for the deer.. might

even feed them corn.. or plant some that I () didn't

harvest, for them to winter over.. and Earl would not be

allowed to come hunt them on my property either.. not

the ones I draw in to live with me anyway.. wouldn't

mind the venison.. but it wouldn't be fair to tame them

then shoot them.. so.. he'd still have to go way north

to bring the venison home..

Might have a cow.. definitely chickens, probably turkeys

too.. ducks maybe.. well turkeys would be a problem,

because would most likely try to put them on the

table come November 25th.. and then we'd fight because I

couldn't raise them.. and then eat them.. I'd never make a good

farmer's wife..

Looking forward to hearing more about your ever growing

family Sharon.. I'd have one more living here IF I had a

place for her to sleep.. I just can't figure out how to

rearrange Roxie's room, to fit in a bed and still keep

her cage close enough that she can't redecorate the

walls of the room.. as it is.. they need re-papered

now.. and I still don't know how she managed to strip

just the paper off the wall.. because it's some kind of

pre-papers plasterboard.. the paper is formed on the

plasterboard as it's made.. She has also destroyed the

curtains, and the curtain rod sags in the middle from

her using the curtain for climbing around at her

weight.. She even ties the curtains in knots.. we had to

remove the lacy sheers that came with the place..

because she managed to pull a hole in them big enough to

fit her head through.. and then somehow got them

twisted.. so she was stuck.. and hanging in the

curtain... She/We are very fortunate that we were home

at the time and heard the squawks she makes.. get

hoarser and softer.. so that we went to check it out..

cause they weren't normal. and found her hanging.. she

was frantic.. so was it little tricky getting her

loose..

Yes.. I think I would love to be living out and "off

grid" like you.. because critters are usually much much

friendlier than people.. at least they pay attention to

me.. if I'm out on the porch in my chair, and the

neighbor woman strolls through on her sidewalk.. I know

she knows I'm there.. but pretty much pointedly ignores

me.. unless her dogs are in my yard, peeing on my

fence.. and my muttleys are out.. THEN she'll speak to

me... her husband and kids.. they'd just come get the

dogs.. and not even look at me..

Yes, I'm still avoiding doing the income taxes.. LOL..

fortunately for me, it's going to be a fill in the

blanks type deal.. I just don't want to do it..

HUGS

|)onna

HUGS

|)onna

Not

only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we

have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to

hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the

turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it

now.

What an eventful place we live in! lol

Sharon

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April 16, 2011

Thank You Sharon,

I try, sometimes harder than others, to keep a sense of humor

about me, even when the squirrels are building condos in my

ceiling! A cousin of mine keeps telling me that she just can't

get over the sense of humor I have about this whole MS. What

else do we have, if we don't keep a sense of humor about the

whole Mysterious Situation? And one has to admit, some of the

crap that happens to us, is downright funny! [Like one of my

cousins, at a funeral visitation, telling another cousin, fairly

loudly, to "Ask Donna.. She's always got a stash!" and then

having everyone surrounding her and I turn around and look at me

like I'm a drug dealer or something.. when all she was talking

about was me always carrying something to drink, and Tylenol or

Advil. -- specially when I used a backpack for a purse back

then!]

I've only really begun to procrastinate on filing taxes since

filing has gone electronic. And that's because, no matter where

I put last year's "stuff" so it'll be safe and in a memorable

location.. that just doesn't happen! This Year, when I finally

finished (doesn't take long if one has AGI or PIN or whatever

they want to prove that you're you when e-filing) I put all the

returns in a big RED folder, clearly marked 2010 Tax Returns..

and had bury it in my undies drawer, in the bedroom.. THEN

I called his niece and told her where I would find them next

year when I have forgotten where I placed them for safekeeping!

With three of us knowing where they are, surely ONE of us will

remember next year!

So.. taxes are done.. and it looks like I actually got 's

W-4 (I think that's the form) information for withholding

correct for a change.... Well maybe not correct from the IRS'

standpoint.. but instead of just "breaking even" as the IRS

would like.. we're actually getting something back! Call it

"Forced Savings" LOL

I hope your turkey comes back.. I don't know that I could get it

into a "stew pot", even though it a terrific idea, because just

seeing her and knowing she was out there.. I'd already be

attached. Someone would have to go out and get her, but bring

her home looking "store bought" for me to make dinner out of

her..

When Earl was old enough to start hunting, he used to try and

talk his dad into going rabbit or squirrel hunting.. Another one

of my crazy rules was.. If you aren't going to eat it.. don't

kill it.. and I'm not cleaning or cooking it if you do kill it!

(not a rabbit or a squirrel anyway.. pheasant or turkey maybe)..

They didn't do any "small game" hunting after that rule was

announced. <grin> They could fill the freezer with

venison. That was perfectly fine with me, just not little

critters..

HUGS

|)onna

Very entertaining reading, Donna! We haven't

seen the wandering turkey back yet but I have a feeling she's

been coming to eat the cat food she can get to and visiting with

our turkeys. I wonder where she belongs? It's a mystery.

Good luck with your taxes. I feel so proud to say I did mine a

long time ago. I used to always go down to the wire with my tax

return but I've reformed:)

big hugs to you

Sharon

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From:

|)onna

To:

MSersLife

Sent: Fri,

April 15, 2011 12:09:28 PM

Subject:

Re: visiting turkey at our house

Another turkey to add to

the flock Sharon.. how cool is that.. wild to boot.. I'd

bet she's looking to be trying to sit soon.. kind of

makes me wonder if they aren't smarter than people think

as well.. and that they know full well they need a male

to help them get chicks.. are baby turkeys called

chicks.. I don't think so.. turkling wouldn't be correct

either... hmmm.. where did I leave that shifter for my

brain???

Oh.. the outside activity has started here as well..

This time it was Mr. Cardinal that came to tap on the

living room window.. to let me (only I wasn't out here,

it was .. this past Sunday morning).. know that

there was no seed in the feeder, and that there was no

bowl of seed on the Air Conditioner (keep it there in

the winter, so the birdies are up close for me to

watch).. So he filled the feeder on the fence..

A few of the Sputzies are back.. haven't seen the

sparrows or the Mourning Doves yet.. Did see Mr.

Bluejay... and one of my squirrels was on the A/C this

morning.. twice.. looking for food (maybe he found some

of the seed that was knocked into a vent during the

winter though, and that's why he was back twice).. One

of the other squirrels was helping themselves to the

sunflower seeds in the feeder yesterday & today..

wasn't the same squirrel because the one on the A/C unit

has a thin scrawny sad looking tail.. the one of the

feeder has the big bushy tail.. but I'm not sure which

of the bushy tails he was..

At least one of them made a home for the winter in my

roof/kitchen ceiling... someone should have gotten up

and put the flashing or soffitt or fascia or whatever

it's called BACK up after the wind blew it down last

summer.. but because they didn't do that.. and the home

was made.. and the winter store of nuts & berries

and seed and whatever else it is that squirrels collect

all summer were stored up there.. he wasn't allowed to

fix it in the winter.. and cause my buddies to starve

because they couldn't get to those stores.. AND they had

already planned their winter home up there.. so nope..

not shutting them out until spring.. [yes, my son, Earl,

said "Tell me that again, when your house burns down

because they gnawed through some wire up there].. And I

wasn't concerned about them wintering over up there..

well at least not until they started adding on to their

winter home.. and expanding from the kitchen, through

the laundry room into my master bathroom.. and I believe

maybe a small path to the opposite corner of my bedroom

as well.. THEN I started to worry a bit.. and when I'd

hear them somewhere other than, and sometimes even, the

kitchen.. I'd grab the broom and start tapping the

ceiling or the walls with it to make them behave and

move back to their original starting place and quit

chewing, scratching or gnawing or whatever it was they

were doing!.. LOL.. but I still wouldn't let anybody

climb up and close that spot off.. All I could imagine

was my poor little critters starving to death outside in

the cold & snow.. or inside up in my ceiling because

they couldn't get out to get a drink (and I could only

imagine the odor, if they did die up in there, come

summer)...

Now that the weather is nicer, and the squirrels will be

starting to collect for next winter... he can get up

there (and had better) and fix the spot while the

squirrels are out and about.. so they aren't counting on

my ceiling as their winter home this year..

I've got a opossum out there too.. pretty sure he lives

or sleeps behind the shed and uses the "growth" (wild

maple trees, raspberry bushes, grape vines &

Rhododendrons) growing on the other side of the fence,

as his playground.. Zucco finds him and chases him off

every chance he gets when he's outside.. I've never seen

him, but has.. Zucco knows exactly where to find

him.. fortunately he can't get to the back of the shed

(or the opossum would likely tear him up a bit).. but he

does make the opossum scramble for the other side of the

fence.. and I think he stands there and blows

raspberries at Zucco.. cause he knows that Zook can't

get him on that side of the fence. (neighborhood cats do

the same to him).

I really wish that I lived in a place like you do

Sharon.. I'd have saltlicks out for the deer.. might

even feed them corn.. or plant some that I () didn't

harvest, for them to winter over.. and Earl would not be

allowed to come hunt them on my property either.. not

the ones I draw in to live with me anyway.. wouldn't

mind the venison.. but it wouldn't be fair to tame them

then shoot them.. so.. he'd still have to go way north

to bring the venison home..

Might have a cow.. definitely chickens, probably turkeys

too.. ducks maybe.. well turkeys would be a problem,

because would most likely try to put them on the

table come November 25th.. and then we'd fight because I

couldn't raise them.. and then eat them.. I'd never make a good

farmer's wife..

Looking forward to hearing more about your ever growing

family Sharon.. I'd have one more living here IF I had a

place for her to sleep.. I just can't figure out how to

rearrange Roxie's room, to fit in a bed and still keep

her cage close enough that she can't redecorate the

walls of the room.. as it is.. they need re-papered

now.. and I still don't know how she managed to strip

just the paper off the wall.. because it's some kind of

pre-papers plasterboard.. the paper is formed on the

plasterboard as it's made.. She has also destroyed the

curtains, and the curtain rod sags in the middle from

her using the curtain for climbing around at her

weight.. She even ties the curtains in knots.. we had to

remove the lacy sheers that came with the place..

because she managed to pull a hole in them big enough to

fit her head through.. and then somehow got them

twisted.. so she was stuck.. and hanging in the

curtain... She/We are very fortunate that we were home

at the time and heard the squawks she makes.. get

hoarser and softer.. so that we went to check it out..

cause they weren't normal. and found her hanging.. she

was frantic.. so was it little tricky getting her

loose..

Yes.. I think I would love to be living out and "off

grid" like you.. because critters are usually much much

friendlier than people.. at least they pay attention to

me.. if I'm out on the porch in my chair, and the

neighbor woman strolls through on her sidewalk.. I know

she knows I'm there.. but pretty much pointedly ignores

me.. unless her dogs are in my yard, peeing on my

fence.. and my muttleys are out.. THEN she'll speak to

me... her husband and kids.. they'd just come get the

dogs.. and not even look at me..

Yes, I'm still avoiding doing the income taxes.. LOL..

fortunately for me, it's going to be a fill in the

blanks type deal.. I just don't want to do it..

HUGS

|)onna

HUGS

|)onna

Not

only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we

have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to

hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the

turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it

now.

What an eventful place we live in! lol

Sharon

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April 16, 2011

Thank You Sharon,

I try, sometimes harder than others, to keep a sense of humor

about me, even when the squirrels are building condos in my

ceiling! A cousin of mine keeps telling me that she just can't

get over the sense of humor I have about this whole MS. What

else do we have, if we don't keep a sense of humor about the

whole Mysterious Situation? And one has to admit, some of the

crap that happens to us, is downright funny! [Like one of my

cousins, at a funeral visitation, telling another cousin, fairly

loudly, to "Ask Donna.. She's always got a stash!" and then

having everyone surrounding her and I turn around and look at me

like I'm a drug dealer or something.. when all she was talking

about was me always carrying something to drink, and Tylenol or

Advil. -- specially when I used a backpack for a purse back

then!]

I've only really begun to procrastinate on filing taxes since

filing has gone electronic. And that's because, no matter where

I put last year's "stuff" so it'll be safe and in a memorable

location.. that just doesn't happen! This Year, when I finally

finished (doesn't take long if one has AGI or PIN or whatever

they want to prove that you're you when e-filing) I put all the

returns in a big RED folder, clearly marked 2010 Tax Returns..

and had bury it in my undies drawer, in the bedroom.. THEN

I called his niece and told her where I would find them next

year when I have forgotten where I placed them for safekeeping!

With three of us knowing where they are, surely ONE of us will

remember next year!

So.. taxes are done.. and it looks like I actually got 's

W-4 (I think that's the form) information for withholding

correct for a change.... Well maybe not correct from the IRS'

standpoint.. but instead of just "breaking even" as the IRS

would like.. we're actually getting something back! Call it

"Forced Savings" LOL

I hope your turkey comes back.. I don't know that I could get it

into a "stew pot", even though it a terrific idea, because just

seeing her and knowing she was out there.. I'd already be

attached. Someone would have to go out and get her, but bring

her home looking "store bought" for me to make dinner out of

her..

When Earl was old enough to start hunting, he used to try and

talk his dad into going rabbit or squirrel hunting.. Another one

of my crazy rules was.. If you aren't going to eat it.. don't

kill it.. and I'm not cleaning or cooking it if you do kill it!

(not a rabbit or a squirrel anyway.. pheasant or turkey maybe)..

They didn't do any "small game" hunting after that rule was

announced. <grin> They could fill the freezer with

venison. That was perfectly fine with me, just not little

critters..

HUGS

|)onna

Very entertaining reading, Donna! We haven't

seen the wandering turkey back yet but I have a feeling she's

been coming to eat the cat food she can get to and visiting with

our turkeys. I wonder where she belongs? It's a mystery.

Good luck with your taxes. I feel so proud to say I did mine a

long time ago. I used to always go down to the wire with my tax

return but I've reformed:)

big hugs to you

Sharon

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From:

|)onna

To:

MSersLife

Sent: Fri,

April 15, 2011 12:09:28 PM

Subject:

Re: visiting turkey at our house

Another turkey to add to

the flock Sharon.. how cool is that.. wild to boot.. I'd

bet she's looking to be trying to sit soon.. kind of

makes me wonder if they aren't smarter than people think

as well.. and that they know full well they need a male

to help them get chicks.. are baby turkeys called

chicks.. I don't think so.. turkling wouldn't be correct

either... hmmm.. where did I leave that shifter for my

brain???

Oh.. the outside activity has started here as well..

This time it was Mr. Cardinal that came to tap on the

living room window.. to let me (only I wasn't out here,

it was .. this past Sunday morning).. know that

there was no seed in the feeder, and that there was no

bowl of seed on the Air Conditioner (keep it there in

the winter, so the birdies are up close for me to

watch).. So he filled the feeder on the fence..

A few of the Sputzies are back.. haven't seen the

sparrows or the Mourning Doves yet.. Did see Mr.

Bluejay... and one of my squirrels was on the A/C this

morning.. twice.. looking for food (maybe he found some

of the seed that was knocked into a vent during the

winter though, and that's why he was back twice).. One

of the other squirrels was helping themselves to the

sunflower seeds in the feeder yesterday & today..

wasn't the same squirrel because the one on the A/C unit

has a thin scrawny sad looking tail.. the one of the

feeder has the big bushy tail.. but I'm not sure which

of the bushy tails he was..

At least one of them made a home for the winter in my

roof/kitchen ceiling... someone should have gotten up

and put the flashing or soffitt or fascia or whatever

it's called BACK up after the wind blew it down last

summer.. but because they didn't do that.. and the home

was made.. and the winter store of nuts & berries

and seed and whatever else it is that squirrels collect

all summer were stored up there.. he wasn't allowed to

fix it in the winter.. and cause my buddies to starve

because they couldn't get to those stores.. AND they had

already planned their winter home up there.. so nope..

not shutting them out until spring.. [yes, my son, Earl,

said "Tell me that again, when your house burns down

because they gnawed through some wire up there].. And I

wasn't concerned about them wintering over up there..

well at least not until they started adding on to their

winter home.. and expanding from the kitchen, through

the laundry room into my master bathroom.. and I believe

maybe a small path to the opposite corner of my bedroom

as well.. THEN I started to worry a bit.. and when I'd

hear them somewhere other than, and sometimes even, the

kitchen.. I'd grab the broom and start tapping the

ceiling or the walls with it to make them behave and

move back to their original starting place and quit

chewing, scratching or gnawing or whatever it was they

were doing!.. LOL.. but I still wouldn't let anybody

climb up and close that spot off.. All I could imagine

was my poor little critters starving to death outside in

the cold & snow.. or inside up in my ceiling because

they couldn't get out to get a drink (and I could only

imagine the odor, if they did die up in there, come

summer)...

Now that the weather is nicer, and the squirrels will be

starting to collect for next winter... he can get up

there (and had better) and fix the spot while the

squirrels are out and about.. so they aren't counting on

my ceiling as their winter home this year..

I've got a opossum out there too.. pretty sure he lives

or sleeps behind the shed and uses the "growth" (wild

maple trees, raspberry bushes, grape vines &

Rhododendrons) growing on the other side of the fence,

as his playground.. Zucco finds him and chases him off

every chance he gets when he's outside.. I've never seen

him, but has.. Zucco knows exactly where to find

him.. fortunately he can't get to the back of the shed

(or the opossum would likely tear him up a bit).. but he

does make the opossum scramble for the other side of the

fence.. and I think he stands there and blows

raspberries at Zucco.. cause he knows that Zook can't

get him on that side of the fence. (neighborhood cats do

the same to him).

I really wish that I lived in a place like you do

Sharon.. I'd have saltlicks out for the deer.. might

even feed them corn.. or plant some that I () didn't

harvest, for them to winter over.. and Earl would not be

allowed to come hunt them on my property either.. not

the ones I draw in to live with me anyway.. wouldn't

mind the venison.. but it wouldn't be fair to tame them

then shoot them.. so.. he'd still have to go way north

to bring the venison home..

Might have a cow.. definitely chickens, probably turkeys

too.. ducks maybe.. well turkeys would be a problem,

because would most likely try to put them on the

table come November 25th.. and then we'd fight because I

couldn't raise them.. and then eat them.. I'd never make a good

farmer's wife..

Looking forward to hearing more about your ever growing

family Sharon.. I'd have one more living here IF I had a

place for her to sleep.. I just can't figure out how to

rearrange Roxie's room, to fit in a bed and still keep

her cage close enough that she can't redecorate the

walls of the room.. as it is.. they need re-papered

now.. and I still don't know how she managed to strip

just the paper off the wall.. because it's some kind of

pre-papers plasterboard.. the paper is formed on the

plasterboard as it's made.. She has also destroyed the

curtains, and the curtain rod sags in the middle from

her using the curtain for climbing around at her

weight.. She even ties the curtains in knots.. we had to

remove the lacy sheers that came with the place..

because she managed to pull a hole in them big enough to

fit her head through.. and then somehow got them

twisted.. so she was stuck.. and hanging in the

curtain... She/We are very fortunate that we were home

at the time and heard the squawks she makes.. get

hoarser and softer.. so that we went to check it out..

cause they weren't normal. and found her hanging.. she

was frantic.. so was it little tricky getting her

loose..

Yes.. I think I would love to be living out and "off

grid" like you.. because critters are usually much much

friendlier than people.. at least they pay attention to

me.. if I'm out on the porch in my chair, and the

neighbor woman strolls through on her sidewalk.. I know

she knows I'm there.. but pretty much pointedly ignores

me.. unless her dogs are in my yard, peeing on my

fence.. and my muttleys are out.. THEN she'll speak to

me... her husband and kids.. they'd just come get the

dogs.. and not even look at me..

Yes, I'm still avoiding doing the income taxes.. LOL..

fortunately for me, it's going to be a fill in the

blanks type deal.. I just don't want to do it..

HUGS

|)onna

HUGS

|)onna

Not

only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we

have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to

hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the

turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it

now.

What an eventful place we live in! lol

Sharon

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Theresa called me from Michigan a few weeks ago - she had worked all night and checked in to be sure I was ok - she went off to bed and an hour or so later she called back - she was hitting high C - some squirrel had eaten through the shakes and set up house keeping - she got the ladder out and that wasn't easy - she is 5 feet tall and the ladder is much taller - not wuite ship worthy - she climbed up and took stock - she went carefully down the ladder and got a can of bee and wasp spray and insulation spray - she hit half a can of each on the outside and went up in the attic and used the rest - when her neighbor came home the fun continued - he is a big guy and broke the bottom 2 rungs - he boarded it up and checked inside - gaving her the all clear

this from a lady who has at least 2 - 3 generations of skunks in the neighborhood enjoying her outdoor buffet - she had an opposum in a box last winter - lost him with the rapid up and temp swings - a doe and her fawn were there last spring next to the pond - she never saw them - just where they had lain

Akiba remember Sherrie's skunk interrupting NCIS one night - how it got in or how long it was in there is unknown - she goes to bed early - a hapf hour of chase the stinky got it outside - then making sure no holes in the outside cat pen connected to the house for several weeks - cyotes could enlarge the holes God, grant me the strength of eagles wings, the faith and courage to fly to new heights, and the wisdom to rely on his spirit to carry me there.

To: MSersLife Sent: Sat, April 16, 2011 8:53:24 AMSubject: Re: visiting turkey at our house

Thank You Sharon,I try, sometimes harder than others, to keep a sense of humor about me, even when the squirrels are building condos in my ceiling! A cousin of mine keeps telling me that she just can't get over the sense of humor I have about this whole MS. What else do we have, if we don't keep a sense of humor about the whole Mysterious Situation? And one has to admit, some of the crap that happens to us, is downright funny! [Like one of my cousins, at a funeral visitation, telling another cousin, fairly loudly, to "Ask Donna.. She's always got a stash!" and then having everyone surrounding her and I turn around and look at me like I'm a drug dealer or something.. when all she was talking about was me always carrying something to drink, and Tylenol or Advil. -- specially when I used a backpack for a purse back then!]I've only really begun to procrastinate on filing taxes since filing has gone

electronic. And that's because, no matter where I put last year's "stuff" so it'll be safe and in a memorable location.. that just doesn't happen! This Year, when I finally finished (doesn't take long if one has AGI or PIN or whatever they want to prove that you're you when e-filing) I put all the returns in a big RED folder, clearly marked 2010 Tax Returns.. and had bury it in my undies drawer, in the bedroom.. THEN I called his niece and told her where I would find them next year when I have forgotten where I placed them for safekeeping! With three of us knowing where they are, surely ONE of us will remember next year! So.. taxes are done.. and it looks like I actually got 's W-4 (I think that's the form) information for withholding correct for a change.... Well maybe not correct from the IRS' standpoint.. but instead of just "breaking even" as the IRS would like.. we're actually getting something back! Call it "Forced

Savings" LOLI hope your turkey comes back.. I don't know that I could get it into a "stew pot", even though it a terrific idea, because just seeing her and knowing she was out there.. I'd already be attached. Someone would have to go out and get her, but bring her home looking "store bought" for me to make dinner out of her.. When Earl was old enough to start hunting, he used to try and talk his dad into going rabbit or squirrel hunting.. Another one of my crazy rules was.. If you aren't going to eat it.. don't kill it.. and I'm not cleaning or cooking it if you do kill it! (not a rabbit or a squirrel anyway.. pheasant or turkey maybe).. They didn't do any "small game" hunting after that rule was announced. <grin> They could fill the freezer with venison. That was perfectly fine with me, just not little critters..HUGS|)onna

Very entertaining reading, Donna! We haven't seen the wandering turkey back yet but I have a feeling she's been coming to eat the cat food she can get to and visiting with our turkeys. I wonder where she belongs? It's a mystery. Good luck with your taxes. I feel so proud to say I did mine a long time ago. I used to always go down to the wire with my tax return but I've reformed:)big hugs to you

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To: MSersLife Sent: Fri, April 15, 2011 12:09:28 PMSubject: Re: visiting turkey at our houseAnother turkey to add to the flock Sharon.. how cool is that.. wild to boot.. I'd bet she's looking to be trying to sit soon.. kind of makes me wonder if they aren't smarter than people think as well.. and that they know full well they need a male to help them get

chicks.. are baby turkeys called chicks.. I don't think so.. turkling wouldn't be correct either... hmmm.. where did I leave that shifter for my brain???Oh.. the outside activity has started here as well.. This time it was Mr. Cardinal that came to tap on the living room window.. to let me (only I wasn't out here, it was .. this past Sunday morning).. know that there was no seed in the feeder, and that there was no bowl of seed on the Air Conditioner (keep it there in the winter, so the birdies are up close for me to watch).. So he filled the feeder on the fence.. A few of the Sputzies are back.. haven't seen the sparrows or the Mourning Doves yet.. Did see Mr. Bluejay... and one of my squirrels was on the A/C this morning.. twice.. looking for food (maybe he found some of the seed that was knocked into a vent during the winter though, and that's why he was back twice).. One of the other squirrels was helping themselves to the

sunflower seeds in the feeder yesterday & today.. wasn't the same squirrel because the one on the A/C unit has a thin scrawny sad looking tail.. the one of the feeder has the big bushy tail.. but I'm not sure which of the bushy tails he was.. At least one of them made a home for the winter in my roof/kitchen ceiling... someone should have gotten up and put the flashing or soffitt or fascia or whatever it's called BACK up after the wind blew it down last summer.. but because they didn't do that.. and the home was made.. and the winter store of nuts & berries and seed and whatever else it is that squirrels collect all summer were stored up there.. he wasn't allowed to fix it in the winter.. and cause my buddies to starve because they couldn't get to those stores.. AND they had already planned their winter home up there.. so nope.. not shutting them out until spring.. [yes, my son, Earl, said "Tell me that again, when your house burns down

because they gnawed through some wire up there].. And I wasn't concerned about them wintering over up there.. well at least not until they started adding on to their winter home.. and expanding from the kitchen, through the laundry room into my master bathroom.. and I believe maybe a small path to the opposite corner of my bedroom as well.. THEN I started to worry a bit.. and when I'd hear them somewhere other than, and sometimes even, the kitchen.. I'd grab the broom and start tapping the ceiling or the walls with it to make them behave and move back to their original starting place and quit chewing, scratching or gnawing or whatever it was they were doing!.. LOL.. but I still wouldn't let anybody climb up and close that spot off.. All I could imagine was my poor little critters starving to death outside in the cold & snow.. or inside up in my ceiling because they couldn't get out to get a drink (and I could only imagine the odor, if they did

die up in there, come summer)... Now that the weather is nicer, and the squirrels will be starting to collect for next winter... he can get up there (and had better) and fix the spot while the squirrels are out and about.. so they aren't counting on my ceiling as their winter home this year.. I've got a opossum out there too.. pretty sure he lives or sleeps behind the shed and uses the "growth" (wild maple trees, raspberry bushes, grape vines & Rhododendrons) growing on the other side of the fence, as his playground.. Zucco finds him and chases him off every chance he gets when he's outside.. I've never seen him, but has.. Zucco knows exactly where to find him.. fortunately he can't get to the back of the shed (or the opossum would likely tear him up a bit).. but he does make the opossum scramble for the other side of the fence.. and I think he stands there and blows raspberries at Zucco.. cause he knows that Zook can't get him

on that side of the fence. (neighborhood cats do the same to him).I really wish that I lived in a place like you do Sharon.. I'd have saltlicks out for the deer.. might even feed them corn.. or plant some that I () didn't harvest, for them to winter over.. and Earl would not be allowed to come hunt them on my property either.. not the ones I draw in to live with me anyway.. wouldn't mind the venison.. but it wouldn't be fair to tame them then shoot them.. so.. he'd still have to go way north to bring the venison home.. Might have a cow.. definitely chickens, probably turkeys too.. ducks maybe.. well turkeys would be a problem, because would most likely try to put them on the table come November 25th.. and then we'd fight because I couldn't raise them.. and then eat them.. I'd never make a good farmer's wife.. Looking forward to hearing more about your ever growing family

Sharon.. I'd have one more living here IF I had a place for her to sleep.. I just can't figure out how to rearrange Roxie's room, to fit in a bed and still keep her cage close enough that she can't redecorate the walls of the room.. as it is.. they need re-papered now.. and I still don't know how she managed to strip just the paper off the wall.. because it's some kind of pre-papers plasterboard.. the paper is formed on the plasterboard as it's made.. She has also destroyed the curtains, and the curtain rod sags in the middle from her using the curtain for climbing around at her weight.. She even ties the curtains in knots.. we had to remove the lacy sheers that came with the place.. because she managed to pull a hole in them big enough to fit her head through.. and then somehow got them twisted.. so she was stuck.. and hanging in the curtain... She/We are very fortunate that we were home at the time and heard the squawks she makes.. get hoarser and

softer.. so that we went to check it out.. cause they weren't normal. and found her hanging.. she was frantic.. so was it little tricky getting her loose.. Yes.. I think I would love to be living out and "off grid" like you.. because critters are usually much much friendlier than people.. at least they pay attention to me.. if I'm out on the porch in my chair, and the neighbor woman strolls through on her sidewalk.. I know she knows I'm there.. but pretty much pointedly ignores me.. unless her dogs are in my yard, peeing on my fence.. and my muttleys are out.. THEN she'll speak to me... her husband and kids.. they'd just come get the dogs.. and not even look at me.. Yes, I'm still avoiding doing the income taxes.. LOL.. fortunately for me, it's going to be a fill in the blanks type deal.. I just don't want to do it..HUGS|)onnaHUGS|)onna

Not only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it now. What an eventful place we live in! lol

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April 16, 2011