Wow I'm honored to receive the Rooster award!rooster wrote: I give Marilyn the Rooster award for best post in this thread. Marilyn, I love what you are doing:
BTW Marilyn, Rooster thinks you are cute:
Thanks everyone,
And I also had the Timex Ironman Triathon and finally totally wore it out...I even wore it while I was doing triathlons! I used to run marathons and actually did a 33 mile training run as I tried to work up to doing 50 milers...but I always had to deal with running injuries from the time I started running at the age of 18. That's why I turned to cross training and triathlons...the cross training allowed me to run faster than I had in the past but no amount of cross training was going to allow me to run 50 miles.
I did all this sporting with undiagnosed sleep apnea (since the doctors insisted that my tiredness was all in my head) and I think that actually working out was probably when I was getting more oxygen than any other time. Once the doctors realized I had severe obstructive sleep apnea, I had a LPPP, at the age of 38 (still had sleep apnea though).
My emu is named BB and we are pretty sure BB is a he...I also have an emu named Sammy. For two years we lived in the city on a grassy irrigated two acres and our next door neighbor had 100 free ranging chickens. The highlight of BB and Sammy's day would be when one or more of those chickens would venture onto our property. They love to chase chickens and threatened to stomp and peck them until they got off their property. So I was always rescuing chickens from BB and Sammy.
Now that we live on 5 acres that is located on a 50,000 ranch, BB and Sammy get their thrills chasing cottontails, jackrabbits, roadrunners, birds, and construction workers (alas, construction workers are rare now that we are all settled). Oh, and one of the best rock climbing sites is located just 10 miles from here...it's kind of famous for it's great rock climbing.
Rooster, BB would just chase you because he likes you
Marilyn
