tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post5716143875093968553..comments2023-05-16T01:55:32.822-07:00Comments on Crumbs From the Corner: Adventures in Woolgathering: On The FencePhyllis Hunt McGowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-57759994436273813152008-08-14T13:38:00.000-07:002008-08-14T13:38:00.000-07:00Hele, that's a dreadful thing to have happened. Ho...Hele, that's a dreadful thing to have happened. How awful. I can't understand how or why anybody would first of all want to do that to bees as if they were nothing, and secondly do it without your consent (as if you would give it?) In hindsight, all Mater lost is a fence. <BR/>I can't imagine how that must have made you feel. How sad and horrible.Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-87132974496067090092008-08-13T23:41:00.000-07:002008-08-13T23:41:00.000-07:00I also feel sad for the fence.Florian's mother had...I also feel sad for the fence.<BR/><BR/>Florian's mother had someone come around to look at bees and advice us on creating hives. While discussions were going on his accomplice went ahead and gassed all the existing bees after which he told us it would have been too much effort moving our bees and for this amount of money he would provide hives already stocked with bees. I still feel really angryhelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00500335410678018061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-35123241300559633802008-08-13T12:15:00.000-07:002008-08-13T12:15:00.000-07:00Beth, he did fix it up in the end- I should have a...Beth, he did fix it up in the end- I should have added that but for me his undoing was tumbling the stones on top of the fence and I couldn't think beyond it- even to conclude the story! But thankfully it all turned out okay.<BR/><BR/>Texican, yes, I would at least look. It's like walking across the road even when the light is green- you still need to check for people coming at you because not Phyllis Hunt McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370730851612587650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-37439614452481426122008-08-13T12:07:00.000-07:002008-08-13T12:07:00.000-07:00ah, humans!i admire your mother for reacting so st...ah, humans!<BR/>i admire your mother for reacting so stoically... but perhaps she knows something we don't...polonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12631341810150848122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-53081658364325120342008-08-13T11:44:00.000-07:002008-08-13T11:44:00.000-07:00Or perhaps that Mater has learned in her years wha...Or perhaps that Mater has learned in her years what she feels she should get upset about, and what she can let slide.<BR/><BR/>I think it's wonderful that she was understanding, and that driver was very lucky that she was.tangobabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01288974184200212536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-10254548802010416072008-08-13T08:01:00.000-07:002008-08-13T08:01:00.000-07:00This story displays just how careless and rude (in...This story displays just how careless and rude (in general) people have become.<BR/><BR/>When did we stop holding doors for each other, saying thank you, offering a helping hand and not dumping stones of ones's mothers' fence?<BR/><BR/>I'm appalled and most probably would have reacted the same way you felt. I wonder had the tables been turned how he would have reacted had the stones been dumped Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08653940993739799006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-42304838180406265982008-08-13T05:51:00.000-07:002008-08-13T05:51:00.000-07:00I like that terminology Ele. ...without a curt or...I like that terminology Ele. ...without a curt or crusty word from Mater. Some people don't even bother to look before blindly following an order. Perhaps she could use the stone for a new fence. I'm afraid I am on the other end of the Moh's scale of hardness. Carborundum. Is the shillelagh no longer available in Ireland? Might not cure him, but he would probably get out and see if anyone Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13118854996343714131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1814799811633243210.post-89191876035361160872008-08-13T01:33:00.000-07:002008-08-13T01:33:00.000-07:00This is sad--did he ever put the stones where they...This is sad--did he ever put the stones where they were supposed to go or did your mother have to go out and fix her driveway herself? Did he apologize or anything? I'm a lot like your mother and hate conflict and usually think of some reason why an error that affects me can be excused, but like you I am outraged for others.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02604780070187163751noreply@blogger.com