PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Rosy, A Pretty Post

Friday, May 18, 2012

Rosy, A Pretty Post

18 jar lids and rings for $3!

These are last year's lids and rings, marked down to $1/6-pack. Even though I won't use these for canning, they will be pretty for storage or gifts. Plus, they are cheaper and more durable than the Ball plastic lids for storage. Parsimony strikes again.

My mulberries are several shades of rosy.

The hens eat them when they fall.

Free!

strawberry ice cream I had on Saturday

I finally found rhubarb in the grocery store!

exorbitant price

My apple I am going to eat right now,

lying upon a 10" napkin I made from a scrap

that was here when I was in a

napkin-making frenzy.

napkin=free

Me=happy

My younger daughter loved Strawberry Shortcake.

1980 memories--32-year-old cup, Priceless

I don't have to try hard to find lots of red or shades of rosy around here. Things are beginning to appear rosy about my house situation. Several things have fallen through or not materialized in the past three weeks. I have to keep the details close to the vest, but I am feeling very rosy right now.

Your turn

Do you find bits of red turn up without your really trying to gather it around you? I do. What is your favorite rosy thing? (rosy=any shade of red)

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BLD in MTMay 18, 2012 at 10:12 AM
I really enjoy the color theme of this post. What a fun idea!
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LindaMMay 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM
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LindaMMay 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Sorry Linda, had to delete due to typos. I had said that I am wearing my fav summer dress which is red, and my red Fiestaware is nicer than the other colors I own. I also really want a red checkered tablecloth!
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LindaMay 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM
BLD,
Thanks. It just came to me as I was editing pictures.

LindaM,
You sound marvelously festive and alive in the red dress. If I see a red checkered tablecloth at a thrift store or yardsale, I will get it for you. The ones at the Strawberry Festival were plastic. They buy it in rolls, I think.
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AnonymousMay 19, 2012 at 6:35 AM
I painted my front door red.

regards wimmera
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LindaMay 19, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Wimmera,
Red would be my color choice for a front door! Or, maybe a dark pink...lol.
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AnonymousMay 19, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Wearing red makes me feel confident.
wimmera
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LindaMay 19, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Anonymous,
When I wear red, I feel happy. Men flirt and seem attentive. Women smile and talk to me. Little children smile. I suppose I feel confident.
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Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

The Cast

Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Friday, May 18, 2012

Rosy, A Pretty Post

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