TGIF @ Thyroid Pub .. add'l photo

[ChitChatNine]

I couldn't resist posting this pic .. it is larger on my profile if you click on "photos" ..

This was taken last week in Tulum, Mexico while inside a tour bus going to see the ancient ruins ..  CHECK IT OUT .. IT IS A CHICKEN TRUCK ... and YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS GOING!!!!  I thought of you ALL when this truck stopped in front of us ..... :: cackle cackle :::

C~

[DLA]

Oh, Lori, I about coughed up a lung on that one!!!  That was SO funny!   I've worked with cattle my whole life and I can guarantee you the runny poo is nasty!!  Never stand directly behind a cow when you're working them.  It upsets them and one little cough. . . .yeah, mouthfull if you're like me and never stop talking.  The dry stuff in the pasture just tastes like grass.   I know this thanks to a cousin of mine who was driving the go cart.  She turned really fast, I went out the passenger side, mouth wide open of course, and landed face down in a cow pie!  I laughed so hard, I almost left the cows a present of my own.

You city slickers need to come visit me in the country for a while.  I could show you a really good time.  But Stella, if you can't even handle being behind a pig truck, you may need to stay where you are.  Don't think you could handle country life.

[stella5349]

I tell you it's the diet of these cows!!!!

[ChitChatNine]

I live in a suburb of NY City ..... cannot even come close to yoru stories except for maybe pigeon droppings or Canaian Geese flying overhead and doing their thing?  I am laughing this morning reading the posts .. really funny indeed!

I was wondering, though, if cattle get upset and poop .. well, maybe, that is where IBS comes from?  For those who have it that eat beef that is LOL!

C~

[stella5349]

I lived so sheltered....... I gotta get out more and really live the life of cow and horse droppings.

The worst thing I endured - was being behind a pig farmer and from the smell of it - those pigs had eaten something pretty nasty. I couldn't pass to the right due to traffic and had to stay behind of over a mile. I think the other dirvers were blocking me in for sheer pleasure of watching my face!!!  I thought I was going to pass out - until I cut off to the right and drove past that truck about 90 mph. No time to whip the finger to the pig farmer, had to puke at the next exit.

[kipland]

Dac and Utah......do you guys ever sleep?!?!?!  Oh my gosh!  Yes, I've been called a party pooper before.  I've never been a night person.  Early to bed, early to rise.  

Your "country" stories crack me up, and remind me of a pretty funny one of my own.  My mom decided to surprise my dad one year and buy him a couple of calves for his birthday.  She took my brother and I with her.  He was maybe early teens.  

We had this little pickup truck - kind of like an S10 with a camper topper on it.  So, the guy loads the calves up in the back of the truck, and my brother insists that he wants to ride in the back with them.  

Mom and I hop in the front and proceed to drive home.  About a 20 minute drive.  What we didn't know is he was pounding on the front window of the topper most of the way home trying to get us to stop.  

When we got home, he emerges from the back COVERED with cow poop.  And you're right - they get the runs when they're upset.  He got sprayed with it SO bad.

Mom and I were trying very hard to control ourselves and not burst out laughing, because he's obviously a bit upset.  Next thing you know, he's stuck his tongue out to lick his lips, and guess what's on his lips?!?!  We're still trying to keep our composure.

And you know what he said?!?!?!?!?!  ......."You know?  It doesn't TASTE half as bad as it SMELLS".  Needless to say, that was the end of my mom and I holding it in.  

Ahhhhh...........good 'ol country living.  I wouldn't trade it for the world.

[DLA]

I would have probably had to pull over and just laugh!  How hilarious!!!!  Bet they didn't make that mistake twice.

Yep, I'm a country girl through and through.  Grew up raising cattle.  Always said my second husband was going to be somebody rich enough to give me a ranch to run and a maid to run my house.  Stupid me, I married for love again.  Look where it's gotten me?  =^{~~~  Flat broke living in a trailer house.  LOL  But sure did get me one fine little boy!!

[utahmomma]

*YOU* were the one driving!!!!     :-0

I dated a guy from Florida once who loved to drive race cars and bullet bikes.  He didn't understand that tailgating someone (especially a cattle truck) does NOT make the driver in front of you go faster.   He learned his lesson.

My favorite is horse trailers going 70mph+ on the freeway.  That stuff can cover a lot of cars at that speed!   (Kids, roll up the windows!!)  Saw that happen in front of a convertible once in the heart of Salt Lake City on the freeway.   Almost wrecked my car laughing.

Wha ha ha is right!!!

Okay - must sleep - puppies are snoring.

[DLA]

Not only have I driven behind them--I'm from Oklahoma, we know to stay way back--I've hauled lots of them myself.  Something about loading cattle into a trailer gives 'em the runs.  Can't tell you how many times I've had some angry person in a Caddy pull up along side me, with green poo all over their fancy car, to yell at me and give me the finger.  Like I did it.  I just smile and wave.  Wha ha ha!    >:^}

[utahmomma]

Dentists.  Man - I've got a few more to add to the pile (forgot about them).

Hey Dac - ever drive behind a cattle truck when one of them "let's go".  Windshield wipers don't help!!!

Ahhhh, the fun of driving through the rural areas (which are about 15 minutes outside of any "city" in Utah)

"Nite kids.  The puppies are asleep (did you see the new photos??) and, like any mommy with a new baby knows, I'd better get some sleep while I can.  They will be up at 4:00 a.m. wanting me to take them outside and complement them on "potty outside" (them, not me - I hope) then they will be too hyper to go back to sleep.  Argh.

[DLA]

Oh, btw, all of you think that truck is so weird should come down here where I live and you can see them all the time.  The worst is when one of the crates falls off and it looks like it's rained dead chickens all over the highway!!  Bachach!!

[DLA]

Dac just arrived a bit late.  Lots going on tonight and forgot about the pub.  To tell the truth forget it was Friday all together.  Did you see that chicken?

Can't remember how many endo's I'd like to throw in.  Got rid of the latest one yesterday.  YEAH!!  Give you a gyn and oh, that HORRID NIGHTMARE of an ENT.  Roast him on a spit.  Slowly.  Got a dentist I wouldn't mind heating on there for a while, too.

[utahmomma]

'Nite Nite to Kipland too.

(Party poopers)

[kipland]

Bye, Tater!  I'm headed that way too.  Got to work tomorrow....  Ugh.

Y'all have fun out here tonight, ya hear?

[utahmomma]

'Nite Tater

[ChitChatNine]

I'm off to bed .... gotta get up early to do a rooster wakeup call come dawn .... *yawn*

[stella5349]

He is first on the roasting stick - then I don't care what happens next. Hmmmmmm. maybe use a 25 gauge needle and stik him 9 times.

Naaa -- He's the guy who's really running on the Pub thread tonight and I stuck Utah on his back to get him!!

Utah - great news on the boy. Thank goodness for that news. Get a double... and relax.

Where is DAC?

[utahmomma]

Yup - that's my ENT.  The one with the freaky light on his forehead saying that whatever it is, it's "small".   Grrrr

Yeah - let's roast doctors (sounds better than roasting chickens)

I'll throw the chief of endocrinology that I fired onto the heap.  There's also about 6 OB/GYNs around here that I'll gladly toss on.  Oh, and one dermatologist who OD'd me.  How about my mom's "witch doctors" who keep giving her drops and herbs for her thyroid cancer??    Oh, oh . . . and can we just singe my dearly-missed "Doogie" who left his practice here (sniffle) to go back to med school to get a 2nd specialty in endocrinology.   Can't "roast" him - just singe him a bit.

Okay all, toss on *your* quacks!!!

[AR-10]

Gee whiz, I guess seven of those chickens are mine!

[ChitChatNine]

I uploaded the chicken truck closeup .. which one are you?  Did somebody say Utah is on the far right?  Look close.  You can see her eyes .. WAIT .. is that her ENT over there looking at the spot on her sinuses?  I think so .. yes, I think that is HIM .. but wait ... wait a moment .. It is STELLA's ENT .... the whole truckload are Stella's ENT look alikes and, well, we know where they are going ..............

Tonight we roast (or rooster) all the Docs who have failed us dearly ::cackle cackle:::

Here is the link to up close chicken photo of truck:  http://www.medhelp.org/user_photos/show/3187

If that won't work go to profile (ChitChatNine) and click on photos.

Ma Hen Here ... C~

[utahmomma]

Yeah - he got too many of my health problems (he's 16 and had two surgeries already) so I'm glad that everything looked good on the thyroid front (so far).   Oh Kipland, my chicken thanks you.  :-)

[ChitChatNine]

One less hen to roost .. congrats with your son!!!!

C~

[kipland]

Glad to see you and your lovely chicken could make it tonight!  

~~Whew~~ on your son's news too!  One less person you have to worry about.

[utahmomma]

Hey - quit baggin' on me and my lovely self-portrait.  :-)

Some of us have been at work all day.  How do you think I have to pay for all my medical bills?!?!

Oh - good news.  My son's thyroid labs and ultrasound were *perfect* - yea!  It skips the males in the family.   (Yeah CarMan and AR - rub it in)

[TheCarMan]

Somebody.........call Colonel Sanders!