I think I'd love to live where you do Hayseed

• It's snowing here - I love snow - MT4eight
  • we had flurries yesterday.... - tinkerbell
    • We had a few flurries this morning - LinK
      • LinK, because like me, you are a masochist! - Hayseed
        • I think I'd love to live where you do Hayseed - LinK
          • Where in upstate are you? You've probably said B4, but I forgot! sm - Reporter
            • I'm originally from Binghamton, but I live in Texas now. - nm
              • Where in Texas? I'm in far - Country MT
            • Hey Reporter I live in the Syracuse area too - LinK
              • Darn! I meant to say FORMER not fellow! I moved a few years back sm - Reporter
          • I have family who live in upstate NY too! - Hayseed
            • Yep, I know where Gloversville is - LinK
              • OMG I used to live in Gloversville! - ER MT

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I have a dilemma.  I am an animal lover and have something I cannot come to a conclusion about.  At a restaurant where I eat lunch every Friday with a friend of mine, I have noticed a young male kitty hanging around outside looking for food.  This past week he ran up to my friend and rubbed her legs and quietly meowed.  I purposely did not try to pet him because I knew I would get attached and ignored him.  Well, ever since then I find myself thinking about him and wanting to rescue him.  Meanwhile, I already have 4 inside cats (2 rescues, 2 Maine Coons) and hubby really does not want another cat in the house because a few years ago I promised we would  never have more than 4 (had up to 5 at one point previously).  I actually have a huge screened deck he could stay on indefinitely because I do not believe in letting cats run loose for their own safety.  I could provide plenty of food, a warm place to sleep, and veterinary care.  At some point I would even probably work him into our household, but I just cannot do it at the moment.  Just not sure I would be doing right by that kitty because I am sure he would be upset and confused for a good while as to where he was and what was going on, but is that better than being hungry and cold?  I know there are lots of animal lovers out there.  What does everyone think?? 

after I found HUGE holes in the walkway between my house and barn.  I thought they were just little mice stealing grain, but then I spotted one and it was a HONKIN RAT!  My poor olderly cat was out there with me at the time and saw it, and he hissed at it and ran away! 

I asked for advice on what to do at a local agricultural board, because I have other animals and didn't want to use poison and conventional traps weren't working.  They advised putting a large pale of water out with some seeds floating in it, figuring the rats would go for the seeds and end up drowning.  That was a no-go because the water just froze up solid.  I wound up reluctantly going with Decon because I just can't have my house destroyed.  I haven't had seen any more rats or evidence of them stealing grain, so I'm guessing they have died.  The guy at the grain store promised me the rats would not die in the building and stink the joint up, rather they would crawl off and die outside.  I don't know if I believe that, as it is still winter here and decomposition would be holding off until it warms up.  We'll see, but at least the destruction has been halted.

Good luck and I too say have no mercy, because you just don't need them destroying hour house or causing a spark chewing wires and burnin' the place down.  It is war!   

  (How un-PC is this emoticon?!)

Just looked at your web site (from under your MT Stars name).  What a dream your place is!  Congrats for making such a dream come true for you.  Thanks for sharing.

what you do in your spare time when you aren't MT'ing and tending to your farm . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd_tSRsxzvI

I'm going to work on becoming a little more savvy with this stuff, really appreciate your time!  Most days, this board is my main source of entertainment (except for Jake now, of course) or consternation depending on the subject, and you are always a bright spot in the day...

For anyone interested in another puppy story, we adopted him from a shelter, had been put there by a family who decided they didn't want him, had a little kid, but I think the truth is, and the people at the shelter thought, that the family just didn't know what having a puppy was like, so their loss, our happiness!  He's a labradoodle and found him through an internet rescue site that came up when I was searching on it.  We had seen a tan one at a house for sale that we were looking at (I thought it was some kind of terrier or something), and my DH fell in love with that dog, so I did some searching...and there he was.  About dropped my teeth when I found on searching what breeders are getting for these dogs... as somebody pointed out to me, they are just mutts, after all...But I was happy to find him at the shelter, have always adopted dogs like that, am always amazed at the wonderful animals that get dropped off.  My wonderful Boxer had been rescued from a puppy mill situation and many moons ago I had a little German short-hair pointer/Brittany mix that was very ill at first, didn't think she was going to make it, but she lived to 17.  I don't usually do all the little doggie accoutrements, like scarves and such, but he was pretty matted and dirty so had to have a professional trim the first time (dang thing cost more than my haircuts!! so I guess the scarf was part of the doggie-do package.)  Wish I could find the pic that stole our hearts at the shelter, like Misha's pic of Cedric.  Anyway, thanks again Hayseed, you rock!

fair either, to me or the dog. I appreciate just hearing your comments and understanding that I am in a bad situation. I certainly thank everyone who has commented. So many of us have a deep connection to God's magnificent creatures. There is nothing like it in the world.

I just 4 Advil an hour or so ago, so it's not too bad.  The Anbesol works for about 15 minutes and then it's like I never used it.  Just hanging in there until I can call the dentist tomorrow first thing.  I think I'll live.

Thanks for asking! 

The snow finally stopped and now comes the rain.  This combination always make such a mess! 

I was watching the WSDOT cam yesterday and that road is a four lane road where the cam is set.   If you watched that particular camera you would notice that there were maybe 3 lanes of traffic and ALL of them were heading in one direction.  The folks going the opposite direction were getting the squeeze.  Of course, it was hard to tell where the lanes were because it was all compact snow and ice but dang!

The winner of the biggest snow driving dingbat (apparently MTStars says i*iot is a bad word) goes to the person who actually stopped and let the kids OUT of the car in the middle of the road to play in the snow while the adult cleaned off the windshield.   I am not kidding!   Lots of people were stopping in the middle of the road to clean off their windshields but this one let the kids out to play in the snow!    Geesh!

Just a clip to crack you up...They were a phenomenal team in that movie!~ I couldn't stop laughing either.  It really was hard to pick a couple favorites...I coulda gone all the way back to Duck Soup (Marx Brothers).  Cat  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2x_sp3Ehvk

For figuring out what they were called.  Melted Plastic Popcorn would have not been the first thing that came to mind, and I never knew there was anything other than the snowman, BUT!!!! Now that I know, I am determined to get the whole set!

the topics that she saw here and they are all laughing it up including the owner of the other board.  You can tell the topics that no one wants to talk about or be "for real" about because the OP will go unanswered.   This board is way better, believe me!!! 

P/S:  If that's all they have to laugh about is an inquiry in this board, does that tell you what kind of board they have going over there?