Bee~ Journal of then...

[Beekissed]

It is always VERY tempting to pull something like this! But, I patiently explained every little thing, as I really abhor ignorance of this type. I'm not the smartest kid on the block but no one should get this old and not know anything about their food sources!

What a complete tragedy!

 

[dragonlaurel]

No wonder you were aggravated. Glad I wasn't having to behave.
She knows where food comes from. Walmart gets it from those big long trucks. I see them on the road sometimes, so I know it's the truth.

Next week she may pass on the news to some other city person, so you may have really helped. I love the way you described her walking in the yard. Doesn't anybody know to wear old shoes on a farm? Something with an easy to clean tread that you don't have to worry about. I'd just have to remember to wear regular shoes. I live in flip flops. Not good if I ever do step in something.

 

[Beekissed]

This lady always wears dresses and very impractical shoes, no matter what the event. It tickled me to see her trying to maintain balance on the slope of my orchard, in slick leaves and trying to keep from falling in cow poo!

I started a thread about this....I have often wondered how other folks like myself feel about the fact that so many people view animals as pets and not food.

They will EAT the animals but not the ones they know. They will not KILL an animal for food but will eat the animals someone else kills. They seem to think this makes them very sensitive in nature and enlightened in their thinking.....where in the heck did they get THAT idea???? :/

This allows them to feel very good about themselves and their ideas about compassion and being a "good" person. I think this makes them lazy and incompassionate about animals in general, while contributing to the exploitation of the very animals they get teary-eyed about!

 

[dragonlaurel]

Many modern meat eaters are highly unrealistic. They are fine with farms products, as long as they don't have to get messy. Those little styrofoam trays must be magical.
My old neighbor girl had a large, "rescued", pot bellied pig, and I didn't ever consider it cute. It was a $ pit that eventually escaped into the woods. Hunters probably got it.
I'm vegetarian but realistic. I figure people should know where their food comes from, then decide what they are comfortable with. There would be plenty of meat eaters still, but I think there would be more small farms.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I'm thinking she could have got a ham or two out of that pot belly pig

 

[dragonlaurel]

She "saved it". It must have been the runt. It was underweight and she promptly turned it into a pet. I don't know how big it was supposed to be, but I think it caught up. Bart was big.
The ham would have probably been useless unless it was already lunch meat. Don't think she knew how to cook.

 

[Farmfresh]

I try to do my best to educate the stupid people that I come across ... but I may now have to use some of dragonlaurel's answers first! I laughed my b___ off!

I also think you are right modern people are completely un-realistic ... about most things. They eat the swill they are fed from the supermarket and don't even realize it tastes bad. We definitely need more education!

Not to worry Bee - sometime God sends us those "guests" as a way of slowing us down a bit. We try to work too hard sometimes.

 

[Beekissed]

If you guys are awake and you can see the sky from where you are, please go out and look up! The stars are magnificent tonight!!!!

Every time I see that sky, I give thanks to God for all that I am, that I have, who I have, where I am. It is awe-inspiring!


Did a little shopping today for some pretty Christmas decorations and accents for my home. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE decorating for Christmas and this year I have to go all out....Eli will be coming home and my sis and her daughter are coming for Christmas.

Did I mention I love decorating for Christmas? Each year is something different and homey, pretty and filled with the magic that is the time of year.

 

[dragonlaurel]

I try to do my best to educate the stupid people that I come across ... but I may now have to use some of dragonlaurel's answers first! I laughed my b___ off!

I also think you are right modern people are completely un-realistic ... about most things. They eat the swill they are fed from the supermarket and don't even realize it tastes bad. We definitely need more education!

Not to worry Bee - sometime God sends us those "guests" as a way of slowing us down a bit. We try to work too hard sometimes.

Glad to do my part to help. We gotta either educate people or blow a little steam laughing. Since I don't have a farm for the city slickers to visit- I can tell jokes a while.

Just hope that when I can start getting critters- I don't get snowed myself.

 

[Farmfresh]

BEE ... I got to see the stars!

When we went to the lake this weekend the stars came out a couple of hours before the moon rise. Since it is November all of the party folk were gone from the lake only a few folks that live there year round. There were still quite a few house lights on the cabins. (One stupid house has 16 lights on the cabin front and dock PLUS a street light behind the cabin! What are they afraid of? At least is a ways across the cove) Also many of the docks have blue lights on the end of them but I was STILL able to lay with my hubby on our tiny little uncovered dock and see billions of stars! Not just the major constellations either but those millions between and the milky way. Great show there GOD!

You folks that can see them all of the time are SO lucky. Take time and look up.