Re: Quiet today

Cyndi - that's a GREAT name - LOL.  How are the babies BTW?

On 3/10/08, james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I like Yelling Ewe. Ours was Mean Ewe.
>
> On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT
> wrote:
>
> > My neighbor's horses do that banging thing, but I think she feeds later
> > than we do, so we only hear it in the evening when we're home. Mine -
> > so
> > far - are gentlemen, and don't cause a ruckus. The sheep,
> > though...everyone within half a mile probably knows when our sheep are
> > hungry. I'm thinking about getting one of those cutesy signs made up,
> > we'll call ourselves Yelling Ewe Ranch. No silence of the lambs at our
> > place.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf Of Jesse Bell
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:30 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Quiet today
> >
> > Same here...only our horses are NOT quiet. We have big metal feeders
> > that hang in the stalls and they have learned how to pick up the bottom
> > of the feeder and drop it so you hear this loud BANG sound. They do it
> > over and over again until you get out there and FEED them. Our llamas
> > are quiet...but they all line up at the fence and stare you down until
> > you feed them. No weekends for farmers. All the critters get you up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CG/SCSRT"
> > <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
> >   Oh wow, you lived in one time zone and worked in another? That would
> > be
> > really bizarre. You'd have to have one of those watches with the dual
> > time zones or something.
> > Our animals make sure we are up early too but I always figured it was a
> > learned behavior. We get up at 5 for work and so do they, but they
> > don't
> > know weekends, so at 5 the cats are wandering around the bed, the dogs
> > are begging to go out, and by 6 the sheep are bellowing to be fed. At
> > least the horses are quiet although you can see their heads craned
> > towards the house waiting for us.
> > I always thought when we retired we could gradually retrain everyone to
> > get up later.
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> > Behalf Of james singer
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:33 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Quiet today
> >
> > Yeah, I know, but Squinty won't let me stay in bed any later. One of
> > the contributing factors to my puzzlement is the fact that I live
> > pretty much on the western edge of the eastern time zone. The western
> > part of the state--mostly the panhandle--is in the central time zone.
> > When I was stationed in Apalatchicola during the Forgotten War, I lived
> > in central time and worked [20 miles away] in eastern time. I don't
> > think I've ever recovered from that.
> >
> >
> > On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95
> > CG/SCSRT wrote:
> >
> >> See, there's your problem - you got up at 4:30. On a Sunday! :-)
> >> We generally don't think of the difference in times until we go to
> >> work.
> >> We have to turn on lights in the morning regardless of DST or not so
> > it
> >> isn't any different for us. Drove off to work in the dark but it's
> >> daylight when we got here.
> >> And I will be really glad of that extra daylight when we get home.
> >>
> >> Cyndi
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> >> Behalf Of james singer
> >> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:48 AM
> >> To: Garden Chat
> >> Subject: [CHAT] Quiet today
> >>
> >> All day--since about 4:30 this AM--I've been holding my breath,
> > waiting
> >> for a consensus to develop about this earlier-than-usual DST. But
> > there
> >> doesn't seem to be one. When I got up, I turned on the lights, the
> >> computer, the TV, and [of course] the heater. The sun finally came up
> >> at 7:30 so I could dowse some of the lights by 8:30 when it was
> > finally
> >> daylight and the skylight began to dispel some of the gloom. So, in
> >> all, I used some pretty intense electricity for 4 hours this morning.
> > I
> >> think those Santa Barbara researchers are probably right. DSL is
> > likely
> >> a loser.
> >>
> >>
> >> Island Jim
> >> Southwest Florida
> >> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> >> Hardiness Zone 10
> >> Heat Zone 10
> >> Sunset Zone 25
> >> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> >>
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> > Hardiness Zone 10
> > Heat Zone 10
> > Sunset Zone 25
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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> >
> > Jesse R. Bell
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.1 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Sunset Zone 25
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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