~cattleman cafe~ & another 24...

[Ginger999]

Slo, I'm impressed with your ability to keep up with a 2yo with your health issues. Good on you!

It's always crazy busy around here when we first get back. So much catching up! Lol

Waves to all! I'll take another day

[Jude58]

Good morning cafe!

Dill, it's great that you stock your pond with such a wide variety of fish. I would have a ball fishing there just for fun; I always catch and release. Do you or Mr. D use the pond for fishing?

Slo, glad that the Lexapro is starting to work already, as sometimes they can take awhile before seeing improvement.

Today looks like a good day to check out an air boat tour of the Everglades. Who knows? Maybe we'll see an alligator.

24 more for all of us please...

[abcowboy]

5:04am in Alberta, I'll have another 24 please, and thanks...

In the last 24 hours, these friends have joined in for 24 hours of wellness:
Rava dill Slo Ginger999

Today is going to be a darn good day not to drink!

[abcowboy]

Have fun on the airboat tour Jude, don't feed the alligators lol.

Glad the lunch was so enjoyable Slo, I still get along well with most of my ex in-laws even after 30 years.

I didn't realize you stocked it with so many varieties dill, around here it's only rainbow trout. I'm not sure you could even call a dugout a small pond lol, but it is manmade. Any of the farmers that have cattle dig them to collect water for the cattle to drink from.

Still haven't heard anything from the dental office, they should have my new teeth ready for a first fitting sometime soon, then comes the rest of the pulling. I'm off this morning to Lloydminster for my annual hearing test and I'm sure my hearing aids will need to be upgraded as I'm losing more hearing in my right ear. Guess I'll find out soon enough.

[Rava]

Good morning Cafe. Jude hope you enjoy the airboat ride. They are interesting especially if you see the alligators. We have gone twice and liked it both times. Ginger, you are running since getting back. I am guessing all will settle back soon. Cowboy all we do is doctors and dentists as we get older….. Slo, glad your med is working. Hope your babysitting adventure last night went well. Hi to Dill and Mul. Hope everyone has a great and sober day. 24 more please and thank you!

[dill]

Jude, I've never done an airboat ride. I bet that will be fun! You're welcome to come here and fish any time you like. I myself do not fish, but Mr. D and the kids and grandkids all do. Mostly we catch and release, but sometimes Mr. D catches and cleans them, and we enjoy a meal of fresh fish.

Cowboy, I have heard the word dugout but here in the States it refers to a (1) partially underground shelter or (2) a hollowed-out tree made into a canoe. It sounds like a practical solution for getting water to cattle and similar to our pond, just not al big I would guess. We used to let our cattle in around the pond, but we didn't like having the mess and sidestepping the cow pies, so we put in an underground system that we pump from an underground spring, and we ran it out to 3 pastures. At the time I there was a county ag program that helped farmers with the design and some of the costs. On another subject: how exciting that your partials will be in soon!

Speaking of alligators and airboats: some 20 years ago now we went down to visit our daughter in New Orleans, not long after she first moved there. We went on a swamp tour. Back then you could choose air boat or canoe to traverse the swamps. Not knowing what we were getting into, we chose the canoe. We floated through the swamp at water level in a canoe! The guide gave us marshmallows to throw into the water to feed the alligators. Yes! You read that right. They came very close, and we saw loads of alligators. Recently my daughter told me they longer allow that style of tour. It's all airboat now and feeding the gators is not allowed.

Waves to Rava, Slo, Ginger and Mul.

24 more for all of us here, please and thank you,

[Slo]

Good morning,

OMG that canoe tour sounds so dangerous, Dill! What a story! I enjoyed seeing the alligators in Florida on a walking tour, although was maybe too close. They are powerful creatures.
Jude, sounds like a great activity for today!

Dill, that’s quite a setup that you had for watering your cattle.

Ginger, it is hard for me to babysit now. I had to give up babysitting all day, and can only manage an evening here & there. I took him to Chuck E. Cheese for a couple hours.

Cowboy, thanks for the reminder that you too and others here navigate in-laws after divorce. I’m glad that yours is amicable too.
I’m sorry that your hearing might be worsening. At least the hearing aid technology has improved nowadays.

Tomorrow I am heading out to travel visit my daughter D3 & son-in-law and the two little grandchildren for a long weekend.

24 more for us all today please!

[Ginger999]

Another crazy morning! I'll try to read back and respond later but one thing you can be sure..... I'll take another day of freedom!

[Mulburry]

OMG that canoe tour sounds so dangerous, Dill! What a story! I enjoyed seeing the alligators in Florida on a walking tour, although was maybe too close. They are powerful creatures.
Jude, sounds like a great activity for today!

Alligators in a canoe, yikes! I just watched this doc on how hippos are taking over a part of Columbia because they don't have any natural predators there like crococdiles. Apparently Pablo Escobar brought them in for his personal zoo, and when they arrested him, the officials didn't know what to do with the hippos so they just let them run wild and now they are expanding and wreaking havoc on the eco system.

Anyways........ I'm just about recovered from a brutal episode of food poisoning (or a stomach virus who knows). The first day was like no hangover I've ever had, but by the second day, only throwing up a couple times, feeling quite nauseous and guts in a not, and of course sick and lethargic, it reminded me so much of a bad hangover it really put me in that mental headspace, that I had to keep telling myself I didn't drink, I'm not hungover. Strange how association works in the mind.

[Jude58]

The air boat tour was fun, but we didn't see any alligators. We had to wear 2 way head sets so that we could converse with the driver of the boat and the other passengers. Well, didn't I drop my phone and immediately say f#*k directly into the microphone for all of the passengers to hear. Everybody kept a straight face except my sister who was quite amused by it all. Oops!

Good luck with your new choppers cowboy. After you get your hearing aids adjusted you'll be good as new.

I leave here tomorrow for home and I'm really looking forward to it, as I've been away for almost a month. I miss Mr. J and all of the animals.

24 more please...

[abcowboy]

5:27am in Alberta, 24 more please, and thanks...

In the last 24 hours, these friends have signed in for 24 hours of wellness:
Jude58 Rava dill Slo Ginger999 Mulburry

Today is going to be a darn good day not to drink!

[abcowboy]

Sounds like the ride was fun anyway Jude, dropped phone and all lol. Are you flying home right from Florida or doing the road trip again?

Sounds like doing lots of running around to get settled Ginger lol. Have you gotten any bites on the 5th. wheel?

I think with the amount of snow we got this year the dugouts up here will be back up to normal levels dill so we might not have cattle in the farmyard using the stock waterer. Not sure I'd go out to feed alligators in a canoe!

Glad to hear you're almost back to normal Mulburry, those stomach bugs are never pleasant!

My hearing hasn't gotten any worse so I don't need to spend a bunch of money on new hearing aids. He cleaned and did some minor adjustments to my old ones and I'm good as new. I did stop in Vermilion on my way home and had a nice walk with Amanda and Bruce. we had a nice visit as we walked the trail in the Provincial Park.

[Rava]

Good morning Cafe. Jude, so glad you enjoyed the airboat ride. We never saw alligators on ours either. Wishing you safe travels back. Mul, so glad you are feeling better. Nothing like the stomach bug. Cowboy, wont be long before you have you new choppers!!! Ginger, hope time slows down for you. You have been so busy. Dill catch and release fishing with the grands is the best! Speaking of fishing, did anyone see the picture of the guy from NC who caught a 140 pound tuna from his kayak???? I cant even imagine how that went…. Slo, hope you have a good time with D3 and her family. Hope everyone has a great and sober Thursday. 24 more please and thank you.

[Ginger999]

Finally! No commitments today.

Mul, sorry about the yuk! Jude, safe travels home tomorrow. Your "people" will be happy to see you! ABC, glad your hearing aids didn't need replacing! Hey, Slo and Dill.

I'll take another day of freedom!

[dill]

I can't imagine how anyone could catch a 140lb fish while in a kayak! Not sure I believe it. Could be the ultimate fish story!

Mul, sorry you were so sick. YUCK.

Late check in here as it was volunteer day. I'm tired but looking forward to the rest of the 24 alcohol free.