Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have never worked on a farm, but I spent 4 years working for at least one day a week at the blunt end in an abattoir inspecting animals when I did meat inspection as part of my training in a previous life. You see 100 pigs an hour zipping past you, and inspecting each one for health reasons, and you start to know a little about what meat is like. Did my time on the beef line and the sheep line as well, together with the odd goat etc. in conditions so cold that you could cut yourself and not realise it until you rinsed your constantly bloody hands at tea break. Happy days! Gerry > On 20 Mar 2017, at 17:06, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > > Interesting story, Gerry. I spent my pre-teen years on a small farm, > about 120 acres. This was during the depression years of the 1930s, and > my dad raised a garden, corn, cotton and some hogs, in addition to the > family milk cow. To tame the small brush and weeds in the hog lot, he > bought some goats. The male, or "billy goat", was a monster, and behaved > accordingly. On one occasion, my mother, sister and I were enjoying a > picnic in a grove in the pasture when the billy goat broke out and headed > toward us, head lowered. We ran across a field to where some men were > building a cattle pen, and they hit the goat in the head with a hammer, > which got his attention. Shortly afterward, the farm workers enjoyed a > goat feast. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 3/20/2017 11:41 AM, Douglas Barry wrote: >> Yes Jim, the comments were amusing. Some people certainly live far from >> the land, and think McDonalds uses Hogwarts to magic up their food. It >> was interesting to see one of the commenters had the surname Bullock >> which is the term used over here for castrated bulls bred for meat. Think >> they're known as steers in North America. So it was not too hard to guess >> on which side of the meat eating fence she was on :-) >> >> Speaking of bullocks, 50 years ago, my family had a 20 acre beach side >> holiday home in Co. Cork and, to help the place "wash its face", a small >> subsidiary business renting out caravans to temporary refugees from the >> big smoke. To keep the grass down, my dad decided to keep bullocks and >> bought 20 at a local mart. Sadly, the idea was scotched after a couple of >> years, as the things were quite big, intimidated the tourists, produced >> prodigious amounts of dung, and broke though fences to deposit steaming >> piles of ordure on the pristine golden sands of the beach. After a >> hurried rethink, he sold the bullocks, and converted to sheep. >> >> Douglas >> >> >> On 20/03/2017 14:54, Jim Nichols wrote: >>> Congratulations, once more, Gerry. You received some interesting >>> comments, as well. >>> >>> Jim Nichols >>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>> >>> On 3/20/2017 5:32 AM, Gerry Walden wrote: >>>> http://on.natgeo.com/28PB72j <http://on.natgeo.com/28PB72j> >>>> >>>> Gerry >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden LRPS >>>> www.gwpics.com >>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information