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ooooh, another one! Once again, any chance of seeing the color version?? Loving the lamb pics!

That one on the right looks like a Mexican wrestler.

There’s a goodly amount of retouch on that, ‘mom. How about I link you to a nice big color image of my second choice from that batch of photos.

“Mom, the other lambs say I’m adopted…”

Yuuummmmmm, stew….

Lambs tearing off in a direction and back is something I remember well from my childhood. On the family farm, my grandfather had about 100 head of sheep, so when we got lambs in the spring, we got buttload-o-lambs (our ewes usually gave birth to two lambs)

In the field there was this fairly large rock (well, large for a lamb) and one lamb could comfortably stand on top of the rock, master of all he saw.

Every year, the fresh bunch of lambs would discover this rock, and invariably they’d make up the same game as last year’s batch: Bump each other off the rock, and it seemed like every lamb got a turn on the rock. Then they’d tire of that game and head off to another part of the field as a wave, all moving as one.

One year, a neighboring farmer asked us if we could look after a young goat for a week or so. We put him in with the lambs; no big deal, they seemed to get along.

When it came time to play the “rock game”, the goat didn’t seem to understand that once you had your few seconds on the rock you were supposed to yield it to the next creature. He tried to defend the rock by butting heads with the lamb trying to take his place.

This lasted for several minutes, until the lamb hive-mind figured the solution out, and tried a new “tidal-wave” maneuver.

The goat was most surprised at getting bowled over like that.

I lurve lambs, specially black faced ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-udsIV4Hmc
Mike Rowe on Sheep Castration and work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QErgjt_GYBk
Mike Rowe actually doing the deed

Nacho Lambre, Eh Grom? 😉

When we were in Ireland over Easter break we were visiting every stone circle/ruined tower/etc. we could find as we went about the country, several of which required us to park along side a heart-stoppingly narrow road, get out of the car, scramble over a stile, cross a muddy creek, amble through a field of of bleating, scattering sheep, and up a hill.

It looked just like that. 🙂

150,000+ unionized Democrat IRS thugs, who have been deciding elections by crushing conservative opposition groups, and by making individuals fear contributing to conservative causes, will soon control 1/6th of the American economy with Obamacare. Today in Congressional hearings we find the IRS is targeting and vetting the content of conservative groups’ prayers.

I’ll tell them my prayer: Damnation, misery, misfortune, pain, and ruination on all the IRS parasites, please, God. Don’t forget, Lord, how shitty the tax collectors were to You 2000 years ago! How about releasing some of that vengeance. Amen!

A cold rainy Friday here in Wisconsin, but the forecast is for sunny and mid 70’s all weekend. I installed a new dual head shower head today, with one massaging fixed head, and a detachabe one with a 5 foot hose. After I finished the install, I was wondering which head came on first, as the selector was not labeled. My brain said, “turn on water just enoug that water trickles out of the head, so I know”. Alas, my arm heard, “Turn on shower”.

Well, I’d post a picture of my “new” M1 Garand, but I can’t post pictures, and it would make poor Stoatie jealous anyway, since she can’t have one there. Pity, that. Of course, the way things are going, we might not be allowed to have them here much longer, either. I suppose I;ll have to lose it in a tragic boating accident…

I’d let you post pictures if I could. I’ve looked for a switch or a plugin that allows it.

Oh, and I need to replace my hit counter, too. Sitemeter’s gone all screwy, and when I looked into it, there were complaints that they use tracking cookies and stuff. Anyone know of something better?

Okay, I biffed the old SiteMeter (and cleared out the junk from that old ad server while I was at it). Replaced with statcounter.com (upper left corner. Kind of ugly, but that’s the only place I could get it to work). We’ll see how that goes.

I know it’s silly, but it tickles me no end to see where my traffic comes from. People use the most bizarre search terms. And I match them!

I like Garands! I want a MK3 Garand someday, the .308 USN version.

Oh, man. Case in point. This is the first Google search string that has turned up in my new hit counter:

flintstones,porn I Hate it when he does that

Also, it was an images search.

Right. OK. Flinstones. Porn. Yeah, those two words work well in conjunction.

Is it just me, or is life getting weirder and weirder?

You should show that StatCounter thing to Ace…sitemeter thing seems to bog down his site a lot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpBuky70rMg&list=FLmqKqvCriq9lFLLDWzCadpg

ww.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120604031860/turtledove/images/7/7d/M1-garand.jpg&imgrefurl=http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/M1_Garand&h=600&w=800&sz=23&tbnid=Zm9SVwoBqAKXOM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=138&zoom=1&usg=__sH8qoU_aar-R65ReRfeZeMZsDQw=&docid=wd4jwaGOQLICIM&sa=X&ei=jVyYUYStOIuo8QSp_4C4Bw&ved=0CFAQ9QEwBQ&dur=101

theres your m1 garand link. God bless John Cantius Garand and John Moses Browning.

That is all. Nite folks.

Bit o’ parsing on Sandman’s M1 link:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120604031860/turtledove/images/7/7d/M1-garand.jpg

Can’t Hark? Yes, life is getting weirder.

Now don’t you feel better that that’s settled?!

Weirder? All the time.

re: life, weird

Nah, it’s just when you read about something ‘weird’, you forget the things in the past that were equally weird.

Nina: well, no, except that it is good to know that it isn’t just me. You and Uncle Badger: validation!

But, actually, I see SkandiaRecluse’s point …

Hey administratorWhy is there a lot of comments that look a lot like spam?

Rumour has it that there is a Mk16 Spitfire not far from Sweasel!

Funny you should say that, O. We’ve been speculating there must’ve been an airshow this weekend – too many interesting things have flown over the house.

Yup~!

I have my Secret Squirrel Sources that say a certain Mk16 is up and about in the UK!

We lost our local one a few years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ICFjr4aRwA

“Flintstones” and pr0n? Gee, I guess I’m not alone in thinking Betty Rubble was truly hot.

Always preferred the “Mosquito”, myself. Built of wood, twin engines, a fast, light 2-man fighter/bomber. Gave the Hun hell, it did.

Ilya Kuriakin loved ’em.

Oceania –

Bit of a drive from Casa Badger to Biggin Hill or IWM Duxford, but worth the trip. AFAIK, those are where the only XVIs in UK live.

OTOH, “The Spirit of Kent” is a Mk IX, and was at the Kent & East Sussex Railway’s affair this past weekend over in Tenterden. Which may be a more easily weaslely local for a day’s outing.

I check out for the weekend and everyone starts talking M1’s? Get your M2 ball from the CMP while it lasts fellas. It’s taking 8 weeks from order to delivery at .50/round for Greek HXP. Stack it deep. Good brass, non corrosive.

The birch plywood that made up the Mosquito was from Wisconsin. The Roddis Verneer Company in Marshfield made a special type of plywood for DeHaviland for use in the Mossie, which was of greater than usual strength. The making of 7781 Mosquitos worth of plywood explains why birches over a certain age are few and far between here in Central Wisconsin.

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tak aby zdechł. Von Egger milczał. Czuł się winieneś, sam
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Time: June 13, 2013, 8:46 pm

, przeciwnie zaś dawny jak disdainfully (http://Www.
Dd2Cesenatico.it) diabli. W najbliższym czasie tenże sam
tak aby zdechł. Von Egger milczał. Czuł się winieneś, sam
prawidłowo. Kardynalnym, jaki zadeklarował, był cwany
szewc, zgred cechu. Smoka przedtem nie stało się,
zaś.

An Italian TLD & a buncha Polack gibberish? I’m Senator Barack Obama, and I approved this message.