The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Now folks I don't want to be too pessimistic, we've got some people in the healthcare system who have our back and are reaching out to my stepson atm to inform him of his rights in ways he will understand and his mother is also being reached out to.
I'll just assume they will fix this problem and not try to get too caught up in it yet. Just pray with me that things will sort themselves out, if you're that type :love:
 
Windigo said:
Now folks I don't want to be too pessimistic, we've got some people in the healthcare system who have our back and are reaching out to my stepson atm to inform him of his rights in ways he will understand and his mother is also being reached out to.
I'll just assume they will fix this problem and not try to get too caught up in it yet. Just pray with me that things will sort themselves out, if you're that type :love:
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Not praying but wishing for you. :love:
 
Note dog hair sticking to my cloths but not the wifies scrubs after laundering. Controlling it, well I'm still figuring out:

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I do all the laundry, most the cooking, clean the house and all the outdoor maintenance. I’m retired and the Wifie working it’s only right.

But, after I clean the house Wifie will do a quick walk through tuning it up and it looks 100% better.

We’re the last house on the block without a gardener.
The gardeners equip are contaminated with invasive grasses that will take hold.
It’s the reason we have such a nice lawn.
Not a green thumb nor any special talent I have.
 
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We have a mentally distressed child too. Occasionally we have to deal with someone, usually a neighbor that doesn’t get it. Doesn’t realize this kid has a huge cross to carry in life.

Usually this neighbor has life way too good, too much inherited money and idle time and needs to point out others faults.
 
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Those are everywhere back in Port Arthur. White ones and grey ones. More fun to watch were the pelicans, dive-bombing for fish, and swallowing them whole.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8nHfLYmPE


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A couple have made their winter home at our local Duck park.

We have/had a nearby fenced-off area that the Canadian Geese used to use as a massive populated stop-over during their migration.
Unfortunately the filming of Pee Wees Big Top movie occupied that area during the migration and ran the geese off.
They slowly started to make it back and regain confidence over the next decade but then the city council threw the gates open to the public and ended that.
I was the lone voice geese advocate at the hearing. I'm not very good at these things obviously.
 
We have some Egyptian geese that have made their home here, along with lord knows how many ducks and wood storks at certain times. Now that it's cool enough to have the windows open, we are seranaded every morning with their honking and it is driving 1 of our cats bonkers.
 
Back from my ultrasound of my ankle. I know I'm not medically qualified but I know a ruptured ligament when I see one and I saw several (definitely 4 or more), some of them badly ruptured.

I also saw what I'm assuming to be cysts in a foot bone (came up blue on the Doppler ultrasound bit) which I'm assuming is actually osteoarthritis. (I'm known to have it in my hips).

Bugger on both accounts.

I get the official 'report/verdict' on Thursday when I see my physio, but I'll be able to access the doctors report this evening and see what the physio (and also my doctor) are being told.

No idea where we go from here though.
 
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We have some Egyptian geese that have made their home here, along with lord knows how many ducks and wood storks at certain times. Now that it's cool enough to have the windows open, we are seranaded every morning with their honking and it is driving 1 of our cats bonkers.
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Back in November and early December, geese would fly over my house almost daily. Happens every year. They stop for a rest flying South at the ponds just South of my house. Ducks would fly over, too, but they didn't make any noise. For some reason, the geese felt some need to honk as they flew over.

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Dive Bar Casanova said:
We have a mentally distressed child too. Occasionally we have to deal with someone, usually a neighbor that doesn’t get it. Doesn’t realize this kid has a huge cross to carry in life.

Usually this neighbor has life way too good, too much inherited money and idle time and needs to point out others faults.
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Sorry to hear about your neighbours. Sounds familiar. Though I have to say in this new neighbourhood so far my stepson is fairly well tolerated, most neighbours said they can see 'something's off about him' and therefore leave him be. That's better than the bullying he used to receive.

Though sometimes he gets filmed or laughed at by people his age still, unfortunately.
 
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We have some Egyptian geese that have made their home here, along with lord knows how many ducks and wood storks at certain times. Now that it's cool enough to have the windows open, we are seranaded every morning with their honking and it is driving 1 of our cats bonkers.
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We had a plague of Canadian geese in our last neigbourhood before this one, and the government could do nothing because they were a protected species. They attacked people passing by somewhat frequently.
 
Windigo said:
We had a plague of Canadian geese in our last neigbourhood before this one, and the government could do nothing because they were a protected species. They attacked people passing by somewhat frequently.
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Geese can be pretty mean. They can't actually injure a person, because they don't have teeth. I used to live by a lake with geese. We reached an "understanding." One good smack to the head, and they get the idea who is boss. That and I fed them. Be good, get food, be bad, get smacked in the head.

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caseydog said:
Back in November and early December, geese would fly over my house almost daily. Happens every year. They stop for a rest flying South at the ponds just South of my house. Ducks would fly over, too, but they didn't make any noise. For some reason, the geese felt some need to honk as they flew over.

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Geese fly in defined V formations that helps to reduce the drag from wind. Individual birds change position so that it's not always the same bird that is at the top of the V. They honk to communicate with each other, so if one could speak Goose, they'd be saying things like, "I'm knackered, any chance one of you lot could take a turn up front," and things like that.
 
Duck59 said:
Geese fly in defined V formations that helps to reduce the drag from wind. Individual birds change position so that it's not always the same bird that is at the top of the V. They honk to communicate with each other, so if one could speak Goose, they'd be saying things like, "I'm knackered, any chance one of you lot could take a turn up front," and things like that.
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Yes, I am actually familiar with how geese fly South for the winter. It is amazing, as the geese I see this year may be the same ones I saw last year. They don't just happen upon the ponds just South of me, somehow, they remember that those ponds are there from previous flights South for the winter.

Nature is an amazing thing.

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We see geese quite regularly, flying over our town. A lot will have come down from Scandinavia or Iceland. One of the odd things is that we sometimes see them at strange times, in more ways than one. You often hear them flying over when it's dark, for one thing. Another curious thing is seeing a skein flying north on a winter's day. Sometimes, you also get them heading south at times you wouldn't expect - we saw some in mid-January, perhaps birds that had been further north in Scotland, but decided to move on a bit further.
 
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