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#841 ·
BigJim said:
I carried my wife to the doctor today to have a catheter removed. I have to push her in one of the walker/wheelchairs. I decided to have a little fun with the nurse. When we were in the room, she was getting ready to remove the catheter. I said to the nurse, as for me being in this room while you do all this, you do know she is my sister, right. You should have seen the look on her face. I told her, 'No, I am just kidding.' lol
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It's not nice to play with the nurses. :D
 
#843 ·
Some years ago I was in the hospital and being "observed". I had one of those ECG monitors next to the bed showing every heartbeat. I got bored so I started tapping the transducer on my chest and looking at the screen, Then I started tapping out, "Smoke on the water". About a minute in a nurse appeared at my door, hands on her hips and said, "What in the world are you doing?" I just sheepishly said, " Oh, can you see this out there, sorry." :D
 
#844 ·
BigJim said:
The only things I hated about picking blackberries were chiggers, snakes, and wasps. To this day, I can not stand that smell of putting the chicken in boiling water to pluck the feathers. If I am eating fried or any kind of chicken and I get a whiff of ANYTHING that has the slightest smell like that, my jaws lock, sorta like biting into buckshot in a rabbit. (It really isn't buckshot, but we called everything shotgun buckshot lol) If I ever bit into a pellet, it was all over for some reason.

J, you will love those good, fresh, dark collored yoke, farm eggs, it will all be worth it. IMHO
We live in the outskirts of Chattanooga, and they won't allow us to have chickens; if they did, we would for sure have a few. You can have all the blame, barking dogs, cats, or anything else, just not chickens. You can even go out in your front yard and fire your gun, high powered rifle, but no chickens. It is called "control".

One more thing, when cleaning the frogs, I always laid them on a platter after taking their britches off and covered them with a lot of salt. That will draw all the old pond water out of them. That is when the legs jerk for a while, not in the frying pan. I would rinse them off and put them in cold salt water in the fridge overnight. I would sure love to have a big plate of fried frog legs right now.
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The main thing I remember about getting a chicken ready for the table is how far they will run when the ax takes their head off.

Chiggers,,,,,,,, seems like everywhere I went I got chiggers.
 
Discussion starter · #846 ·
twaskom said:
The main thing I remember about getting a chicken ready for the table is how far they will run when the ax takes their head off.

Chiggers,,,,,,,, seems like everywhere I went I got chiggers.
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We would just wring their necks to kill them.
Years back, I was renting a house from this guy out in the country; he had a lot of chickens and a couple of turkeys. Came time to kill the chickens, so he started out wringing their necks. After a while, he said, check this out, I found a faster way of doing this. He would hold the chicken against his chest with one arm and jerk the chicken's neck with the other. It worked ok, but he still had to bleed the chicken. After he did a few chickens I looked at him and busted out laughing. When jerking the chicken's necks, they were filling his shirt pocket full of...yeah buddy.

Oh yeah, while he was killing all of the chickens, he was going to kill their turkey named Charlie. He said if you open the turkey's mouth and stick a knife upward inside its beak, it will kill it instantly. They stuck it with the knife, and sure enough, the turkey fell over. They were in their house with the door open, dressing the turkey. They had the scalding water ready and put ole Charlie in the hot water and got all of the feathers off of it, then laid him back down on the floor. All of a sudden, ole Charlie came around, jumped up and out the door, it ran. That was the strangest sight ever, old Charlie running/staggering out across the yard naked as a Jbird, them right behind him. lol

This same guy came up to me when we were bushhogging a field and told me to come see all these turkey hawks in a tree. I went over there, looked up, and told him, those are buzzards. lol He was a city slicker and hadn't been down south long.
 
#848 ·
Another hot day but I do think the humidity may be a bit less brutal than yesterday.
Had to make the monthly trip to the neighboring county to get the wife's dog monthly Addisons Dease shot, and blood work done.
Wife ordered a solar powered door for the chicken coop I am building, it arrived today guess I will try to frame it in tomorrow. If it works properly, it will open at dawn and close at dusk, we shall see.
While I will eat chicken if it is what's for supper I will never make a request for it, has to be my least favorite meal. I do however like turkey but never had to scald and pluck 30-40 of them in a day. We rung their necks, I was pretty happy when I got big enough to wring necks cause it meant the younger kids were plucking while I was wringing, leaving less plucking for me.
I live in a pretty rural county; we do have a hospital but not a large one. There is a good chance the ER nurse you aggravate today may be the ER nurse shoving the IV in your arm (or other even less pleasant procedures) if you have to come back. I tried to cut them as much slack as possible when I was working and be very nice to them when they were working.
 
#849 ·
Keith Mette said:
And the winner is???
PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE bankruptcy means 'forever' winners will no longer get paid...
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I have absolutely no sympathy for the $5000/week winners who are no longer getting checks. After a couple of years of that, anyone with an inkling of common sense should have a very fat savings account to fall back on.


Jbuck said:
I live in a pretty rural county; we do have a hospital but not a large one. There is a good chance the ER nurse you aggravate today may be the ER nurse shoving the IV in your arm (or other even less pleasant procedures) if you have to come back. I tried to cut them as much slack as possible when I was working and be very nice to them when they were working.
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I worked in a hospital ER for 30 years, and I can GUARANTEE a nurse will remember you if you messed with them.
 
#850 ·
I was raised on chicken and pork, we raised and sold all the beef, I cut their heads off a bout 400 to 600 a year , we killed our own pork. If a beef broke a leg we butchered it.
AS much as I have been in an out, I never messed with a nurse. I'm here to tell you there are some BAD ones, most are good.
 
Discussion starter · #853 ·
This nurse today was a very easy going super friendly lady about 55 or so. She was joking around with my wife and I or I never would have thought to do anything or say anything out of the way. Oh you can believe most nurses will put a person in their place.

I worked in a cabinet shop at Baptist Hospital East in Memphis several years and saw first hand how professional they can be. One head nurse who was over the Labor and Delivery there was a good friend all ways just a bubbly personality. One day we had something to do in her department. We walked back where I knew she would be and she was giving one of the doctors there fits. She was flat raking him over the coals. We stood there waiting for her to let us know what she needed. The second she got through chewing that doctor out unmercifully, she turned around and like flipping a switch, she said hey fellows, just as sweet as she could be. That blew me away how she could be on the war path one second and instantly turn and be her sweet self. I know when to keep my mouth shut for sure, I have joked with a nurse when I shouldn't have and she let it be known in no uncertain terms.
 
Discussion starter · #855 ·
Keith Mette said:
I use to eat a lot of venison, before all these new diseases, not any more, back in the day we had co on suppers , then we would see piles of them dead below a hollow tree, not any/ more.
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Same here, I wouldn't touch deer with a vaccinated crowbar.
 
#857 ·
BigJim said:
Same here, I wouldn't touch deer with a vaccinated crowbar.
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Before marrying my wife I didn't buy beef for 20 years, living on venison. She had access to beef and pork from a family farm and preferred that, so happy wife happy life. Since she passed in 2022 I again haven't bought any beef other than the occasional pre-made hamburger patties (local butcher has some awesome seasoned patties). Venison burger for chili, spaghetti, home-made pizza etc. Thin sliced steak strips for roll-ups. And last year I bought a big dehydrator and made a bunch of jerky. I only put one in the freezer last year and could have used another. This year I hope to put 3 in the freezer so I can send some with my son at college.
 
Discussion starter · #860 ·
I absolutely love deer, but I'm afraid to eat any due to the thought of the diseases they may have. The best I ever had was at the BOC National gathering in KY a few years back. Bryan Shrum and a few others had some deer sausage. That had to be the best I have ever had. I think my eyes rolled back in my head while eating it, talk about gooooood.
 
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