Do you have a pet?

[yvanleterrible]

Peeves is a ghost at Harry Potter's school.

[UncleDuke]

can your monkey do the bird?

// old stand-up comic catch phrase //

[PieOPah]

Originally Posted by UncleDuke

can your monkey do the bird?

Did you know?

Bird is the word...

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by PieOPah

Did you know?

Bird is the word...

I thought Grease was

[PieOPah]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I thought Grease was

Hmmm, haven't you heard? I thought everybody had heard about the bird...

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by rebarnmom

When you live in a barn, you've gotta' have cats to catch those little rodents! We've got two inside cats and have had anywhere from 1-30 outside cats/kittens. (If you feed them, they will come!!) We used to have two dogs (akitas) but they are no longer with us anymore. They were our children before we had a real child, The dog we have now is as good of a mouser as any cat. And since we've gotten her, our outside cat population has plummeted.

All of them are rescues. I love the fact that they all get along so well together!

P.S. Since we're living in the barn, there is no room for horses.

I finally got some pics made into an album. I tried to attach a couple, but I can't tell if I was successful. If not, they're in my album.

[Verencat]

Thanks to Rebarnmom's last post, I discovered this thread, and I HAVE to answer some of my dad's posts!

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

You beat me to it. Two kids...adult kids... kinda...

As adult as you!

[QUOTE=yvanleterrible;433056] And I do not agree to keeping an animal against it's will. That's why I let the kids go. Kidding!

Now come on! You didn't let us go, you pushed us out - anyway, you made us run away from you...

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

My house's basement is about one meter and a half high and I often store machinery there. When my kids were small, I didn't want them to play there because it was dangerous. And because it was off limits, as all kids in that situation, they were drawn to it anyway. That basement being hard packed earth is paradise for insects. Say insects, say spiders. In the entrance there was a HUGE spider(for this climate) an inch across. I typically am respectful of life of any form, so I kept it there unharmed.
One day as I was getting in the basement to fetch part of a machine, my son, then 6, who was shadowing me came face to the spider. He froze in terror and said in a weak voice:
"Papa!"
I turned to see him locked in his footstep, facing THE spider.
*Flash*(Gotcha)
I quickly yelled:"Careful...That is the boss of my guardian spiders!"
The first named that popped up was:
"She's Victoria and she's mean. Be careful!"

It took years before he got in there again.

Victoria also scared the crap out of me, I will never forget her, I still talk and think about her, she's engraved into my brain. I somewhat think she is still alive somewhere, looking for me, just to take a bite out of my leg...
I know you did it for our good (I still remember playing around with a saw...) but you SCARRED ME FOREVER!!!!! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!!!

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Oh, I love that Thing!
I do an imitation of an elephant with my hand that I started to calm kids down and I have gotten to a point where it even amazes adults. It's easy, the middle finger is the trunk and the others are the legs. You just walk the hand on a cluttered table and sniff around all objects.

Another thing I'll never forget

Originally Posted by Nate the great

Given how much we talk about Adrian, I decided it was time to create a page in the MobileRead Wiki for him:

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Adrian

You got me too! That thing is a monster! Victoria's lover, maybe?