PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Update To Update

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Update To Update

In the last post I said I got $1350 this week in money owed me. Then, I figured out that $200 was just a promise. But, the $200 check from ATT came in the mail yesterday. Sooooo, I did get $1350 in the mail this week. Of course, I am back to square one after paying things I owe and have owed for awhile.

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Mamma BearMay 2, 2013 at 7:39 PM
God is good!
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Alexandra of VirginiaMay 3, 2013 at 8:01 AM
I don't really ever play the lottery, but with all this money coming to you, owed or not, I wonder if you should play just one, small, cheap lottery ticket ? LOL
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LindaMay 3, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Jane,
You would think that might be a good idea! One time about 40 years ago, I won every little thing I entered, even when I forgot I entered. It was scaring my husband. THEN, I entered a drawing for a car and did not win. That broke my winning streak.
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lotta joyMay 3, 2013 at 10:18 PM
Easy come, easy go, is not a quote to be used in this day and age. Hard to come by, quick to leave, is more appropriate.
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LindaMay 5, 2013 at 12:01 AM
lotta joy,
None of was earned easily. Hard to come by, quick to leave is very much appropriate.
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SnowbrushMay 8, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Linda, I came back looking for you email, but didn't see one so I'll write to you here. Where are you from in Mississippi, and are you now in flatland Alabama or hill-country Alabama, the former being as homely as the latter is lovely? Mississippi is prettier overall (so much of Alabama being ugly), but Alabama has some places that are prettier than anything Mississippi offers. I somehow didn't notice that you were a Southerner until I came back just now. Marion, Rhymes, Charles, and Ellen, are my most loyal Southerner readers, and Creekwalker is a transplanted Southerner. I see that Lotta Joy is here on your blog, and she lives in Florida, but she's too recently there to be considered Southern.
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Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

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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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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Update To Update

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