Smarties Bar & Grill #76

There is nothing as scary as a Mama when her baby is being in danger and from the news she may have to take backseat from the crazies in the city. They might even scare her.

 

It is none of my business but it seems like your talents are wasted at a convenience store. You seem to have a talent for mechanics and fabrication.

 

My candy striper is coming up. It will fill out wll. Stand in front of this when the sun is shining and the fragrance is flowing is an experience of Zen.

 

The red stuff is different.

 

Yeh, this girl at my place of business was just on natural neonatal hormones. @FatBack and people in the NYC subway are dealing with people on who knows what drugs.

It might be interesting to set up a cage fight between my crazies and city crazies…nah, that wouldn’t be ethical…not fair to the critters or the people they would stomp!

 

Send us the pay-per-view link if you do.

 

Been far too long since I built anything. As you probably know I tend to specialize in human powered machinery and nobody around here wants to pay you what that's worth.

I can have $300 and 3 days into a build and people around here act like you're supposed to sell it for $300.

I have recently done a few welding repair jobs on the side.

 

OMG. I did not see that joke coming.
I am seriously losing it.

 

You’re just “color blind” which is the best place to be on the race issue!

I think I’ve talked about it before on PF but cattle are quite bigoted when it comes to color and breed. They will self segregate based on color and breed 9 times out of 10. Mostly color.

A jersey cow will mother almost any calf colored like or similar to a jersey. But grafting a black angus calf onto a jersey is usually difficult. A red Angus calf being much closer to jersey color will be much easier.

Hereford and Red white faced cows will tend to hang out together in the pasture while black and black white face cows stay together.

 

I noticed something about cattle and my younger years hunting psilocybin mushrooms.

I would never even waste my time looking in a field of purebred Black Angus for instance, it seemed that the shrooms just would not grow there.

The best habitat was always old Florida cracker scrub cattle or Brahma cattle in heavily wooded pasture.

I have a theory.... The life cycle of a shroom is to drop the spores on grass and the cattle eat the grass and when they defecate the spores sprout into the mycelium when the conditions are right in the cow patty. And then when it is heavy humidity and warm days and nights, the sporocarps or the mushrooms grow from the top of the cow patty. From pinning until decomposition seems to take about 3 days.

My theory is the purebred herds are probably being fed grain and I have heard old Urban myths about antifungicides being applied to the grain.

Think there's any truth to that?

 

Wow, that is fascinating. Obviously it not prejudice in a human sense, but it does show a natural genetic mistrust of others not coloured like ourselves. I assumed animals did it all by smell.
Cow don't have colour vision do they?

 

Well, fungicides are used on growing grain crops. Usually in the very early part of the reproductive stage, like at silking in corn. Most only protect the target crop for a few weeks so I’m not sure that would affect the final grain product enough to retard fungal growth after passing through the rumen and everything on a cow. But I suppose it’s possible. Same goes for cereal grains here. Fungicides early in the reproductive or before the reproductive stage (before any grain is produced).

But the Midwest is very different than the south. Harvested grain may be treated with a fungicide to prevent spoilage. I’d say your hypothesis certainly has merit I just don’t know enough about practices in the south.

I will have to mull this over. It’s a fascinating observation. I know fescue is a common grass in the south and has endophytes that cause all sorts of problems in cattle and horses. British breeds (Angus, Hereford etc). are more susceptible to the toxin produced by the fungus in the grass than Brahma and other Indicus type breeds, but again I don’t know if grass may or may not be treated with a fungicide for this. Probably not but I just don’t know.

If I don’t get any sleep tonight it will be your fault for getting me thinking about this!

 

Almost certainly. Most grain crop is treated with anti fungicides. Cows only digest about 35% of what they eat, the rest comes out undigested.
Therefore odds are the dung contains anti fungicide.

 

Just wondered....

 

I worked in a fab shop my last few working years. I quickly learned to run a CNC burn table. The normal operator couldn't make it to work so I took his job. I also learned other things.

 

Describe the fragrance.

 

I can't .....sweet?

 

They should be for sale at a plant store near you.

 

Very flowery smell.

 

I haven't seen them or wasn't aware of what they were. I will have to look for them.

 

Creeping phlox or thrift. The field is an attempt create a no mow lawn. These are cones from last year. They are essentially one plant. cuttings.

 

One plant in American Meadows is 6.39, and a 32 plant tray 188.78 that is the sale price they are a bit pricey. If they live you get what you pay for in a showy spot.

 

I usually buy one gallon pot of phlox. That will give me hundreds of cuttings. Just clip and stick, keep lit and moist.

 

If I remember correctly cattle lack the ability to see some colors humans see. Red and colors using the primary color red in combination with the other primaries I think.

The calf color thing is definitely sight, not smell. A Jersey cow can spot a Jersey colored calf from 200 yards away and distinguish it from other colored calves. Beef cattle used to picking up ears of corn that escaped the combine will spot something yellow a long distance away thinking (hoping) it may be corn.

 

This happened a few miles up the road from my house. This is a pretty well-armed county and it's safest to just assume that anyone you might mess with is armed



https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending...ange-with-suspect/EZ7GIZGV4RH2JMU6OSTV253224/


ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla. — A gunfight between a Florida deputy and suspect took on an added wrinkle when the father of an intended victim joined in, firing his pistol at the alleged assailant.

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