Re: The pigeon Curse

Jim: This story is an excellent example of what I enjoy so much about
you...the sweetness and the sour...all rolled together in one! LOL!



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Mon 01/27, Island Jim < jsinger@igc.org > wrote:
From: Island Jim [mailto: jsinger@igc.org]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:09:34 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT] The pigeon Curse

when i had the sheep farm, my next door neighbor's son raised pigeons. he 
has a large treehouse-type cote from which the pigeons were free to come 
and go.

this neighbor's other next door neighbor was a state wildlife ranger. once 
he brought home a redtail hawk with a broken wing and nursed it back to health.

once the hawk could fly again, it cleaned out the pigeons in about a week.


At 03:54 PM 1/27/03 -0500, you wrote:
>[I tried sending this a day or two ago, but it got lost in cyberspace;
>you mag get another.]
>
>This I stole from somebody's signature on another list:
>
>"God devised pigeons as a means of punishment for man. Probably after
>the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha he wanted to make sure that people
>would never again feel comfortable enough in a city to repeat the sins
>committed there, and he created the pigeons as a means to make the city
>dwellers' lives more miserable, as a constant reminder of their past sins."
>
>-jrf
>--
>Jim Fisher
>Vienna, Virginia USA
>38.9 N 77.2 W
>USDA Zone 7
>Max. 105 F [37 C], Min. 0 F [-17 C]
>


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