And texture!
Later in life, we moved to another ranch that had a similar reservoir. My
brother moved back home after being a city dweller for many years. One morning
noticed that there was something fuzzy in the water. Hair. Mouse hair.
He drained the reservoir that afternoon and scrubbed with bleach. So we had
bleach tasting water for several weeks and the rodents had bleach water to
float upon for a while...
From: Mathew Howard
Sent: Monday, March 4, 2019 12:26 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT sorry for the bragging
Either way, I'm sure it adds flavor...
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 12:34 PM Robert Andrews <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
Live stuff swimming around in it is much better than dead stuff floating
in it...
On 03/04/2019 10:10 AM, Bill Prince wrote:
> We have lived in a very rural property for almost 23 years. Our well is
> thankfully about 600 feet from the house.
>
> However, our water tank was originally a redwood tank that was (we were
> told) a reclaimed pickle barrel. That would have been some huge batch of
> pickles at over 5,000 gallons, but I digress. We accelerated our plan to
> replace it when I found frogs swimming around in it.
>
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>
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:59 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com
> <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
>
> A bit uphill and probably 100 feet away. It was between the
> bunkhouse and the woodshed.
> The well and reservoir was way up the hill beyond that. I thought
> nothing of the weekly sojourns to the reservoir to scoop the dead
> mice and other animals off the top of the water. Long bamboo stick
> with a strainer wired to the end.
> *From:* Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Monday, March 4, 2019 10:40 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT sorry for the bragging
> eeewww. The outhouse was UPHILL from the kitchen?!?
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> part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:30 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone, I have forwarded your comments.
> When I look back at when I was a kid, living in an unpainted
> farm house in Oregon, outhouse up the hill from the kitchen
> door (that’s right, no toilet in the house, this was before
> hippies, my folks were just poor dirt farmers),
> I have to marvel at all the good things that have come my way.
> Every day I give thanks that warm water comes out my showerhead.
> *From:* Bill Prince
> *Sent:* Monday, March 4, 2019 10:21 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT sorry for the bragging
> Does this qualify as a humble brag?
> You should be proud when your progeny accomplishes something
> significant.
> Congrats1
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> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:57 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
>
> But my oldest son made some of the parts of the dragon
> capsule that docked at the ISS. Closest I ever got to any
> of that was building scale models of the Saturn V when I was
> a kid. Exciting times to be alive.
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