i am happy for him because he is no longer suffering and he inspired so many people. i guess i am acquainted with a lot of death. a friend was hit by a car when she was riding her bike. i saw her lying in the road. she was only ten. a very close friend who was an angel died of leukemia at 30. i took that so bad. i still haven't recovered from suri's death.
i have loved all my animals so passionately and have such incredible memories of all of them. i really do prefer animals to people and blue collar workers to white collar ones. aby and i were head bumping this morning. pudge joined me earlier. just priceless.
fondly,
bobby

finally feel good after months of misery. went to bed at 6 p.m. feeling so horribly mentally and physically and woke up at 1 a.m. and felt great. I am not making progress with my p.t. and don't know what is happening. right now don't really care if i can hardly walk.
i hope this great mood lasts and i will cut down on spending. my credit card was outrageous but i didn't freak. 500 was from medical costs.
I did buy another velvet tunic with sparkly stuff which i will never wear outside. it was love at first sight.
Finally my stocks did better.

I hope the good feelings continued today.
What's happening with the physical therapy bobby? Is it just not helping or are you having problems doing the exercises or work required for other reasons? Pain or something else.

hi,
yesterday i was having pain when i was walking in the hall so i stopped. today i walked and didn't have pain. i do have ibs. i took a little nap after i ate and sure enough woke up with my stomach bothering me. even though i shouldn't am going to have coffee. then i will have tea. i am also taking maalox and peppermint capsules and will drink a lot of water.
i am almost finished rereading a book i have been reading all day by pauline miller-so entertaining. as i am reading i am remembering all of it.
found out that eggs stay good long after expiration date.
fondly,
bobby


Egg cartons often have a date printed on them, such as a “best before” or “sell by” date. ... But if you store them properly, eggs can actually last far beyond their expiration date and still be safe to eat. So the short answer is yes, it can be safe to eat expired eggs.

I've been a hen keeper for some years now. Sadly I lost the last two earlier in the year in a very traumatic incident. Anyway, the best way to keep eggs that are freshly laid is not to wash them. They have a natural covering on them after being laid that is called a bloom. Always wash before using in case of contamination. Our climate here doesn't really allow for leaving eggs out of the 'fridge. I personally wouldn't eat eggs left too long because they won't taste as good or work as well in recipes. I don't eat eggs at all anymore. Poor hens. What their bodies go through every cycle/day to lay a little egg is beyond belief.

Sorry for the rambling. I so miss our chickies. :(

i am so sorry. is that why you no longer eat eggs? i wonder how many you had and what other precious animals you had.Thanks for the first hand information.
fondly.
bobby

These last two were very beautiful. They were especially bred so that they were resistant to a particular disease that chickens get in the area where I used to live in northern New South Wales. They were Laced Wyandotte crossed with Black Australorp. The Wyandottes are the very pretty American birds. Their feathers are speckled and look very delicate. They were first bred in NY State of all places. The Australorp is a very handsome black chicken from Australia. Very pretty birds and they were tame so they'd come and sit on your lap. Birds are very intelligent creatures. More than I ever realized.

These were the last two of only 6 that we had. No rooster. We brought them with us over 1000 miles north to where we are now. Eggs are very nutritious but I just can't force myself to eat them anymore unfortunately. I would if I could because they're high in choline and we all need that in our diets.

Unfortunately some breeds have a very short life span because they've been bred to lay copious numbers of eggs per year. The Wyandotte/Australorp, apart from being immune to certain chicken disease tended not to lay as many eggs and for the health of a chicken that's a good thing.

Sorry.. on a ramble again. :o

Australorp Chickens: Everything You Need To Know - that is a lot of eggs and so beautiful.
wyandottes - Google Search
that is really fascinating and must have been delightful. at one time i had 14 birds, mostly parakeets but rescued two starlings and two mourning doves. the mourning doves and sammy, the starling lived for 14 years. boy did i love sammy. i rescued a yellow female parakeet who for the longest time didn't seem nice. then one of my parakeets got sick and she covered him with her wings and nursed him back to health. later she had eggs and stayed on them but none of the others fed her so after a while she died. i felt helpless. i also had a macaw for three years, my dead brother-in-law tricked me but finally was able to a great home for him. f@# bother-in-law
fondly,
bobby

You really have done some fascinating things in your life. I love hearing about them. Thanks. Goodnight. Sunday done here. Hope you all have a good Sunday too.

i also had a cockatiel but he didn't live long. a lot of my birds died when there was construction on my terrace and the rest od the building. i blame that.
I called my other starling little jude who i also adored. each morning he would sing so cheerfully that i would light up. such a sweetie pie. i would quickly hand feed him. sammy also was a great mimic and would sing too and make a lot of different sounds.
Little Jude only lived a year and strangely the same day my mother had died a few years earlier. I was told by an Indian woman they had a belief when a parent didn't get the affection from their child the would come down to earth to receive it. my mother and i were estranged. when i was very young she assigned me as caretaker for my father when he was drunk. After 11 she wasn't nice to me and she never nurtured me. She treated my dead older sister always well especially when myra had 3 boys.
I bet your life was much more exciting than mine. manhattan is just a concrete city and that is where i have spent most of my life. I wonder what it is like to live near crocodiles and to have seen so much countryside and to have done yoga, mediation and more. wow.
I must tell you of my deep souled kitty name snowball. I adopted him when he was a few months old. I told Joyce i didn't like Persians, especially those with flat faces. She told me she had just the kitty. he was a white persian. he looked as if he had run into a wall. he had a fang. he also had a crooked nose. he was just so homely I thought nobody would adopt so I adopted him. within 3 weeks he had a prolapsed colon and I brought him back to Joyce. I didn't have much money. She told me to take him to the animal center and she would pay. it turned out to be 1200 dollars. She said we couldn't let him die. I would call her constantly crying hysterically because he wouldn't eat or poop.. She kept on saying that I couldn't let him die. he was only a pound. finally he recovered but then had two more. my vet tried a purse string but i heard a pop and it came out again. then my vet did major surgery and Snowy recovered very quickly. The vet jokingly said it rarely happened but i saw three. He did have a bad case of feline herpes. he started growing and became three pounds and he no longer had a crooked nose because now there was enough for it and i liked the fang. he slept me every night. At the time I had two littermate mini schnauzers. Morgy beat bone cancer but his heart gave out. he was almost 14. snowy was sleeping and didn't see me take Morgy's body to the vet. For a month he would go to the terrace window and wait for Morgy. he had never gone to the window before. then hammy started having renal failure. snowy stated rubbing against him often to make him feel better, they would even head bump. snowy had the deepest soul. I found him dead on the floor when he was about ten. I never loved any of my precious animals more even though i felt Morgy was the center of my universe.
fondly,
bobby who was blessed
Pudge and Aby are incredible.