Happy Things
"These are a few of my favorite things..."
The shooting meteorite I saw Monday night. Thank you, God.
The muskrat (it might have been a nutria -- too dark and too quickly passed to tell) I almost hit last night on Peoria Road. (I still haven't bought into (and never will) the concept: "Only swerve to hit an animal, not to miss it.")
Dr. Huber recently gave a presentation at a highschool career day. A mortician friend of his was also there, representing his profession. Dr. Huber asked him if he got very many interested students, and the guy said they were all the gothics. Struck me funny somehow (and sad, at the same time).
Thursday night after the vet school Bible study we were talking about kiwis. One girl stated that we should say "kiwi fruit" instead of just "kiwi", to be sure it is clear that we like to eat kiwi fruit and not the kiwi bird. Thereafter, she said "It is "_____." I interpreted the ____ as "not a turtle," though clearly that was an unlikely thing for her to say. So, says I, "It's not a turtle?" and we ended up laughing because she had actually said "It is noctural."
"Nocturnal", "not a turtle"... I guess they're similar. Now she plans to make a T-shirt with a picture of a kiwi bird and the words "This is not a turtle." Of course, it is completely an inside joke and people will wonder what it's all about.
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This morning I spoke about goats to some Linn County 4-Hers. The beauty of such situations is that they ask questions I don't know the answers to. "We bought some goats with large abdomens -- what sort of parasite is involved?" Dunno, some sort of Cyathostome? "What can you do to decrease urinary stones when feeding molasses? What about feeding ammonium chloride?" Um, I've read something about molasses and urinary stones and know that ammonium chloride is sometimes used to decrease stone incidence. I certainly didn't have any clearcut answer.
My friends Jake and Casey did large animals and small market critters, respectively.
The shooting meteorite I saw Monday night. Thank you, God.
The muskrat (it might have been a nutria -- too dark and too quickly passed to tell) I almost hit last night on Peoria Road. (I still haven't bought into (and never will) the concept: "Only swerve to hit an animal, not to miss it.")
Dr. Huber recently gave a presentation at a highschool career day. A mortician friend of his was also there, representing his profession. Dr. Huber asked him if he got very many interested students, and the guy said they were all the gothics. Struck me funny somehow (and sad, at the same time).
Thursday night after the vet school Bible study we were talking about kiwis. One girl stated that we should say "kiwi fruit" instead of just "kiwi", to be sure it is clear that we like to eat kiwi fruit and not the kiwi bird. Thereafter, she said "It is "_____." I interpreted the ____ as "not a turtle," though clearly that was an unlikely thing for her to say. So, says I, "It's not a turtle?" and we ended up laughing because she had actually said "It is noctural."
"Nocturnal", "not a turtle"... I guess they're similar. Now she plans to make a T-shirt with a picture of a kiwi bird and the words "This is not a turtle." Of course, it is completely an inside joke and people will wonder what it's all about.
This morning I spoke about goats to some Linn County 4-Hers. The beauty of such situations is that they ask questions I don't know the answers to. "We bought some goats with large abdomens -- what sort of parasite is involved?" Dunno, some sort of Cyathostome? "What can you do to decrease urinary stones when feeding molasses? What about feeding ammonium chloride?" Um, I've read something about molasses and urinary stones and know that ammonium chloride is sometimes used to decrease stone incidence. I certainly didn't have any clearcut answer.
My friends Jake and Casey did large animals and small market critters, respectively.
posted by Claire at 15:14
2 Comments:
They really raked you over the coals! I mean, who would normally ask if caprine lung worms were roundworms, tapeworms or flatworms and what classification coccidia falls under? All I had to do was talk about pasteurellosis and gross my audience out with talk of cecotrophs *grin*
Cecotrophs... you did a good job there. The poor little girls. :)
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