Senseless Banter...

llama momma wrote:Here is Ivy League again this year wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday

Hi Llama Claus!

Wait ... what are you doing there ... no no ... I haven't been bad this year ... don't give me the Christmas spit!

LM, What a heart warming nursing home story! Sniff.

Sanderson,  yes, they can produce some very emotional responses especially from folks meeting them up close for the first time. People will hug them and cry.  They are taken by the gentleness of a 3 to 4 hundred pound animal. There is something about them.  They often say majestic.  I agree.  In general there is a very nice sensibility about them.  Brought up correctly they won't crowd you or get in your face and will pretty much do what you ask of them.  They come up to see you and check out what you're doing then go back to grazing.  They like the barn cat and nuzzle her when she is on the fence at their eye level. And just like other animals each has their own personality.

We ordered our standing rib roast for new years. We will pick it up on the Friday after Christmas and I am going to age it in the refrigerator and cook it per Alton Brown. We did this last year and the results were fantastic. Anyway I went searching for the plastic container I drilled full of holes to age the meat in. I searched everywhere and it was not to be found. You can't lose something like that because it is pretty large to misplace and we haven't moved or anything so where was it? Well I went into my studio/ plant starter room looking for the third time and suddenly it appeared. I was using it to store my seeds.

Well, I guess that's better than keeping worms in it! 

Got an early Christmas present two days ago:


Grandson number 1, I think he's pretty cute.

Precious, precious!!  Congratulations, Grandma!

Oh, LM!  Congratulations!!!!!

Awwwwww

Kay

Congratulations, LLM.  he's already got some LLamas lined up for pets.

Thanks everyone.   
Kay I responded earlier to your worm inn thread too.

Grats on your first, LM.

Adorable!!!

Congratulations!

What a nice Christmas present!!!!!!!!!!!

floyd1440 wrote:What a nice Christmas present!!!!!!!!!!!

And all the work done for you, LLM, and most of it in the future as well. My sister said that grandchildren are much more fun, most of the time.

Thanks everyone! He is quite the little blessing, a new twig on the family tree.

oh my gosh, LM, I want to hug him and kiss him! And he probably would spit on me ...and that's okay.  

CC

Lol Cape C -

Brand new grandson Alexander would be more likely to spit ( rather spit up ) than Ivy League the llama. Lol.   Ivy League acts as though he never gave it a thought during  the past 10 years of his life.  Which makes him an ideal public relations llama btw.

http://boredomtherapy.com/cool-test/

Please don't post what your answers were. But I would love to know if you were in the 98%, or the 2%. Or, in my case, the 99%? Because one of my answers agreed, the other didn't.

martha wrote:http://boredomtherapy.com/cool-test/

Please don't post what your answers were. But I would love to know if you were in the 98%, or the 2%. Or, in my case, the 99%? Because one of my answers agreed, the other didn't.

yep, I am in the 98%.  I can see why one of my answers might be predictable, but not the second answer.  Strange.

What gives? Gas shot up so grocery prices shot up, groceries being so much more expensive to transport. So now that gas prices are plunging, the prices ... continue to shoot up? What the ...?

I feel bad for the less fortunate. What can they eat for protein anymore besides oatmeal and beans? The cheapest hamburger here is four bucks a pound. Hamburger, for goodness sake! Chicken drumsticks went from 99 cents to 1.29 to 1.59 (on sale) here in the last couple years, and I'd guess 1.99 won't be long in coming. And that's the cheapest piece in the largest-pack price. A single apple can cost two bucks. Sheesh.

Marc Iverson wrote:What gives?  Gas shot up so grocery prices shot up, groceries being so much more expensive to transport.  So now that gas prices are plunging, the prices ... continue to shoot up?  What the ...?

Are you sure the price of groceries increased significantly because of the price of gas increasing. ??  I work for a pallet manufacturing company and a few customers have recently asked us to reduce our pallet prices because the cost of gas is decreasing.  So we did a study just last week and found that our cost of diesel fuel has decreased 24% over the last year.  But our cost of fuel is only about 20% of our delivery costs (labor and equipment costs are significantly higher than fuel costs).  So, the average charge to deliver our pallets to a customer is $200 per load, 20% of that is $40 (cost of fuel to deliver the load), and a 24% decrease in that is about $10.00.  Divided by 400 pallets per load gives a savings of about 3 cents per pallet. Customers want us to reduce our prices real quick for something like this, but they do not realize that the price of lumber, nails, labor etc have been increasing a lot more than the decrease in the cost of fuel.

Sorry for the rant, but with the "recession" just ending, the last thing we want to do is reduce our selling prices because we have been struggling for years to raise prices and we have been unable to do that until about 9 months ago.  So nobody wants to reduce prices right now.  Of course I can only speak for the pallet manufacturing industry but I would assume it is typical of all manufacturing.

martha wrote:http://boredomtherapy.com/cool-test/

Please don't post what your answers were. But I would love to know if you were in the 98%, or the 2%. Or, in my case, the 99%? Because one of my answers agreed, the other didn't.

 I'm a 99% too.   And I think our gardening is why we got one different.

Kay

The recession means everybody is struggling(almost). Businesses(depending) and individuals(definitely) alike. I can understand that. It's the reason I'm out of a job and probably the reason I can't find a new one.

And I'm not asking for anyone to drop their prices. For almost a century, since the Great Depression, prices in general have been inflating, not declining, and we all tend to get used to new price rises. I'm just aghast that the precipitous rise keeps on going no matter what.

I'm repeating what I read in news stories when the price of gas started a dramatic rise some years ago. Within weeks, our grocery costs were significantly higher. Now for all I know the increase in gas prices was just an excuse to raise prices. Maybe the news got it wrong. Maybe a bit of both. Regardless, I just wish the plunge in gas prices now served as an excuse to lower the same prices that the rise in gas prices was said to have raised in turn. It seems that no matter what happens economically, prices increase.

I'm not much of a believer in the end of the recession either, but that's another topic ...