Staying healthy- and misleading
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Thursday, January 9, 2025 00:23
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Quote:Why thank you, Sig. And btw, I LOVE your new signature quotation. Always look upstream. Awesome.
Originally posted by SignyM:
Actually CTS I was thinking EXACTLY of you and hoping you would come out of the woodwork.Just hoping you'd post.
I really appreciate this community, despite our many disagreements. A Firefly fan just can't be all that bad.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky
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Nullius in verba. (Take nobody's word.)
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As far as franken-food goes, that REALLY creeps me out when it's looking to me an awful lot like GM "food" has something to do with these bee die-offs and a sudden reduction in the number of common birds....
Even someone as unversed in the details as me can spot an immediate problem with major sources of pollination falling off.
As for the birds tho, while unrelated, since it's on my mind and all... a while ago we had some birds nest in the garage frontage, and me bein me, saw no reason to remove or harm them since they were doin no harm - just common, every day black birds, maybe starlings, and only one parent bird that I ever saw.
Come one morning, the missus wakes me up early all freaked out, apparently the momma bird had unfortunately expired somehow while trying to return the nest, and was lying dead at the front of the garage door, and the missus was completely and totally horrified at the thought of the poor little chicks expiring from starvation or hypothermia, and as such, begged me for a downright miracle - save them, no matter how, no matter what, see to it that they do not die.
I quickly turned to the internet for information, knowing time was of the essence, and decided that their chances for survival here were not good, in a house with several cats, and a wholly inexperienced person trying to care for them, and looked for somewhere, anywhere, willing to rescue ordinary, garden variety, unimportant birdlings.
As this went on, the clock was certainly ticking, and having reached a point where the hypothermia risk was increasing, the only thing that could be done was to bring them in, and standing on an old cooler, I managed to pry up the fronting and just barely reach the nest, and one by one, with infinate care, placed the five baby chicks into an empty bowl lined with paper towel, making sure to settle them in properly and not risk any harm to them.
After placing them in a closed room and warm environ, and turning back to the net, found a place that would resuce and raise these birdlings, but it was a fair hike, and the spare car was technically out of commission due to bad front wheel bearings and nearly non existent brakes, but the survival of these poor little critters was completely paramount in my mind at the time, and so, off we went, front wheels wobbling and screeching, at a bare 45mph in the slow lane with the flashers on and the birdlings as secure as I could make them, in their bowl, which was in a box, which was then placed in the cooler propped open with a wedge to let in air, and belted into the back seat.
And so this white knuckled ride takes us to the place, whereupon the birdlings are placed in the care of folks who struck me as especially kind and professional, causing me to part with some of my hard earned cash as a donation, both to cover the poor little birdlings, and because such devotion to an almost unheard of cause deserved recognition of the only type that would continue it's existance.
And one final gesture, once arriving safely home, was to cut a shroud from spare cloth, dig a small grave, and lay the momma bird to rest with a hymn, although I do not follow that faith, it seemed appropriate in that she gave it all in trying to mother her own.
And the final coda to this little tale comes the next spring, this spring, actually - as another mother bird of the exact same type, almost without a doubt one of the original progeny, came again to the frontage of the garage and raised her own chicks there, which have only recently grown and flown to wherever the winds take them, no doubt to return next spring and repeat the cycle - I guess in their little birdie minds, this is a "safe" place.
Not really related to the topic, I know, but I felt like sharing it.
-Frem
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