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10/31/13, 10:30 PM
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Mistaken identity - hilarity
I'm packing for my southern migration, and there was a Priority Mail box in the living room with my packages of goat herbs from Fir Meadow and Molly's Herbals. At lunch, one of my work crew helping me renovate these houses spotted the zip lock bags of herbs.  There followed a good ten minutes of loud exclamations on my stash, the size of my stash, the components of my stash, the wisdom of disguising my stash as goat herbs, the origins of my stash, the affordability of my stash (some had prices on the bags), and the convenience of shipping it via the U.S. Mail. 
I finally handed one of them a zip lock sandwich bag and told him to help himself.
OH NO, HE WASN'T GOING TO DO THAT. 
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11/01/13, 06:29 AM
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Oh my! Yea I wouldn't want him working for me any longer!
Funny though the things we wouldn't really think much about.
There was a thread a while back about little things we do that "norms" will take the wrong way. The two that stick in my head are the syringes left in the breast pocket and going to the post office, and the people sitting in a restaurant talking about slaughtering kids!
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11/01/13, 06:36 AM
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LOL!!! That reminds me of a long time ago I did a sage cleansing of the house. Where you burn sage and it has a really familiar, pungent odor. Well, not 5 minutes later my Dad and Step mom dropped in out of the blue! I hardly ever see them. They lived over 200 miles away and were passing through and just stopped in to see our new house.
EEE-gads! I showed them around the tiny house. Tried to explain the sage burning and why it smelled like pot but really wasn't pot. really!! They left rather quickly. I swear I can never do anything right with them! Oh well 
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11/01/13, 06:40 AM
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I'll add another; I am housing a friends farm animals (the goats are negative!) and she has a pair of turkeys, chickens and ducks as well.
Anyhow, one of her ducks has become a problem. He's taken to jumping at me at feeding time. He's a muscovy drake and quite large with long claws.
Her tom is also large and has taken to be a little aggressive with the chickens; never with me.
Anyhow, she and I were texting about this and also her recent meal of duck. So we are referring to these animals as "the brown one" and "tom" and saying things like 'knock him into next week' 'learn to behave' 'become your next stir fry' 'butchered' and 'take him out'.
Well, if anyone saw read that exchange.....
Murderous racists!
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11/01/13, 07:05 AM
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I've been caught red-handed, LITERALLY, butchering chickens. Several nicely dressed Johovah's Witnesses popped in. I was up to my elbows in blood and feathers and had just been stung by a yellow jacket. I was running to the house, knife still in one hand, to put meat tenderizer on the sting. Reached the driveway just as they were walking to the door! Should have seen their faces! Of course, I'm blabbering away in a frenzy, attempting to explain hastily while excusing myself into the house.
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11/01/13, 08:20 AM
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Big bags of herbs look like *herbs* to anyone who has watched television or a movie any time from 1960 on. 
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11/01/13, 09:21 AM
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My wife has some herbal tea that looks like some premium bud (not that I would know what that looks like) 
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11/01/13, 09:58 AM
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Years ago my house was robbed, and the officer taking the report spotted a small plastic container on my table. She picked it up and asked me to put it away, or she'd have to confiscate it. What? Took me a minute to realize what she thought it was. It was actually catnip. I told her that, and started to remove the lid, but she said she didn't care what I called it, put it away, or she'd arrest me.
Part of me wanted to force the issue. I didn't appreciate being accused of possessing pot, when it was catnip.
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11/01/13, 11:21 AM
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A long time ago my roomates called to ask me to pick up the baggie on the kitchen table & they would meet me somewhere else to pick it up.
Did I ever get chewed out. How was I to know it was oregano?
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11/01/13, 09:06 PM
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If he had actually seen good bud, he'd have been able to tell the difference. Apparently he's been smoking trim or something. :-P
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11/02/13, 09:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chamoisee
If he had actually seen good bud, he'd have been able to tell the difference. Apparently he's been smoking trim or something. :-P
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Ha ha ha. I've got to take a picture of my wife's tea and put on here.
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11/02/13, 10:01 AM
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My wife's stash. I guess I should add that this is tea and if you didn't read the earlier post, you would think I was actually posting a pic of her weed. LOL. She never smoked.
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Last edited by Doug Hodges; 11/02/13 at 03:34 PM.
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11/02/13, 10:50 AM
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We had some young people staying with us and helping us for a while, and we had a sick kid in the barn. I asked John when he wanted to go shoot the kid. (I don't give shots. HE does.) The young man helping John had the most peculiar look on his face until we finally told him it was antibiotics. The kid wasn't going to be killed... at least not right then.. :0
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11/02/13, 01:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chamoisee
If he had actually seen good bud, he'd have been able to tell the difference. Apparently he's been smoking trim or something. :-P
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Oregano?
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11/02/13, 02:35 PM
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I had some alfalfa go slightly moldy and so I had decided to burn it rather than the goats get into it accidentally. Who knew that alfalfa smelled just like burning weed (even the pellets), my then 15 year old son comes running out asking if we where smoking, promptly busting him on knowing what it smells like, then my never hadly ever see neighbor comes over (5 acres between us) wondering what we think we are doing...
Now, we just have fun with it from time to time when certain guest are over, as we are known to be clean, hubs is actually allergic to the real thing.
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11/02/13, 03:31 PM
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It is the nature of the times.
I had given a goat an antibiotic shot and stuck the empty syringe in my coat pocket.
Then went to town, with the syringe still there which I found at the check out.
Nothing happened but I was in a lather about what might happen if I got stopped by the cops on the way home. "Honest Officer- it's just left over from my goat this morning."
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11/03/13, 12:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cannon_Farms
I had some alfalfa go slightly moldy and so I had decided to burn it rather than the goats get into it accidentally. Who knew that alfalfa smelled just like burning weed (even the pellets), my then 15 year old son comes running out asking if we where smoking, promptly busting him on knowing what it smells like, then my never hadly ever see neighbor comes over (5 acres between us) wondering what we think we are doing...
Now, we just have fun with it from time to time when certain guest are over, as we are known to be clean, hubs is actually allergic to the real thing.
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Well, their burps do smell like it sometimes after they have been chowing alfalfa.
I doubt there are very many people who aren't small children that don't know what pot smells like. Even if you have never done it, I'm sure almost everyone has smelled it...right??
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11/03/13, 05:51 AM
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HOW do they DO that?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug Hodges
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My wife's stash. I guess I should add that this is tea and if you didn't read the earlier post, you would think I was actually posting a pic of her weed. LOL. She never smoked.
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Red Raspberry leaves? Wow only one copy of the pic?
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11/03/13, 06:23 AM
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Quote:
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Red Raspberry leaves? Wow only one copy of the pic? |
That's it.
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11/03/13, 07:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frosted Mini's
I doubt there are very many people who aren't small children that don't know what pot smells like. Even if you have never done it, I'm sure almost everyone has smelled it...right??
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LOL! Yeah... "Spam for tea!"
I'm sure there are folks who haven't smelt it, but they are few and far between.
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