[Leica] Another chosen by Nat Geo.

[Jim Nichols]

Sorry, Douglas.  I realize, in hindsight, it was your story, not Gerry's.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 3/20/2017 12:06 PM, Jim Nichols 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
>>>>
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