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My husband came home from breakfast with the boys last week to this.
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A lovely old home up the road from us fully engulfed in flames.
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Turns out the RV parked next to the house caught fire when the owner went out to start it. They were just getting ready for a trip to Florida and bam!
Their world exploded.
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The next day?
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Everything, a total loss.
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I can’t even imagine. Thankfully everyone got out safely, even the dog. And I know they’re just things.
But still.
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I live in the country, in a small Maine town. This is never more apparent than when you read their local Facebook page.
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I don’t golf, never have. But if I could hire a personal goat caddy? I might have to start.
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And speaking of goats….
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Rent a goat. Now there’s a small business worth supporting.
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And if you think we’re all about goats, never fear.
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We have worms right next to the milk and butter in our grocery store’s dairy case.
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And finally… are we really doing this now?
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Puppy play dates. What happened to the good old days when neighborhood dogs just met on the corner and sniffed each other butts?
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And what passes for local news on their Facebook page.
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No, I don’t know what’s happening either. But turtles are involved so it must be good.
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Goat shooing happens more often than you think here.
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Now this is news!
While we do live in Maine, moose are more commonly seen up north. Having one stroll our river is a sure way to fire up the locals.
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This is another type of wildlife sighting altogether. A traveling donkey who spends a few nights on your lawn by request. Made by a local artist, his name is Mr. H.
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Goats are still on the loose.
Clearly their walkabout is causing concern.
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But in happier news, the slandering chicken is back home on the drivay.
Perhaps if her owner learned how to spell she’d stay home more often.
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Remember the bizarre eggplant?
The ‘extremely happy to see you’ eggplant?
We decided to gift it to our local pub’s owner/bartender/new friend.
He wasn’t quite sure what to make of it at first…. and tried to pass it off to his employee.
Who immediately weaponized it.
And then succumbed to it’s charms.
And once he saw how well it was being received?
He fell in love.
I mean really, how could you not?
I’m shamefully reposting this from our town’s Facebook page because it captures the dynamic perfectly.
Want to find out who the idiots are in your community?
Join your town’s “Friends and Family” or local group page. The gossips, the curmudgeons, the do gooders, the righteously offended…. they’re all actively posting and making asses out of themselves on a regular basis.
Read on and tell me you don’t recognize a few of these people.
QUESTION:
How many Facebook group members does it take to change a light bulb?
ANSWER:
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
17 purists who use candles and are offended by light bulb discussions.
6 to argue over whether it’s ‘lightbulb’ or ‘light bulb’.
Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.
22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being a***holes.
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is ‘lamp’.
15 know-it-alls who claim that they were in the industry and that ‘light bulb’ is perfectly correct.
49 to post memes and GIFs (several are of Michael Jackson eating popcorn with the words added: “I’m just here for the comments.”)
19 to post that this page is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a light bulb page.
11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant here.
24 to discuss the merits of LED/swirly fluorescent light bulbs
44 to claim LED and fluorescent bulbs will kill you.
12 to post the letter “F”.
8 to ask what F means.
7 to post ‘Following’ despite the 3 dots at the top right that mean you don’t have to.
3 to say “can’t share”.
2 to reply “can’t share from a closed group”.
36 people to post photos of their own light bulbs.
15 people to post “I can’t see S$%^!” and use their own light bulbs.
6 to report the post or privately message an admin/moderator because someone said “f÷×$”
4 to say “Didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”.
13 to say “Do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs”.
1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that (insert politician of choice) isn’t the brightest bulb. This usually takes place within the first three comments.
50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.
3 to state sanctimoniously that this is supposed to be a friendly Facebook group and that all of this petty nonsense is a result of people abandoning courtesy.
5 admins to ban the posters who were insulting.
3 who come up with a conspiracy theory about light bulbs which either involves them catching Coronavirus or that they will fry their brains.
1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.
Covet.
‘To want to have something very much.’
That’s what I thought.
So the answer to my title question is no.
I didn’t covet.
But my town apparently thinks I did.
Who knew a much coveted annual Victorian Tea fundraiser had been cancelled?
Not me.
Heck, I didn’t even know any one was coveting Victorian tea to begin with.
Our local feed store is a delightfully quirky place.
Owned and operated by a wonderful man who shares our love of critters, I always look forward to shopping there.
Case in point….
When a turkey chick failed to sell last year because it had a deformity of it’s wing? He adopted it.
The bird is now large, spoiled silly and something of a feed store mascot.
When the temperature drops to near freezing?
She comes inside and stays by the wood stove…
Because even turkey birds get cold.
Please note there are two chickens under the table as well.
I love my town!!
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