PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: See? I Knew It!

Thursday, December 11, 2014

See? I Knew It!

So, Chickens were King of the Jungle?

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Have you ever read Mental Floss? Do you subscribe to Mental Floss? I have always wanted to but....

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CherdoDecember 11, 2014 at 11:33 PM
Chickens are the king of everything. We are their corn flingin' serfs.
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LindaDecember 12, 2014 at 1:49 AM
Cherdo,
LOL...corn flinging serfs. So true. I love chickens.
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Jason and MichelleDecember 12, 2014 at 6:11 AM
That's cute.
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AnonymousDecember 12, 2014 at 8:04 AM
I just saw this online and was thinking of you. You can store up to 100 gallons of fresh water with it. You say they sometimes turn on the water for you to get some things done, You could fill this while the water is turned on. Hope it helps.

http://www.waterbob.com/Information.do?forward=home
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Anne in the kitchenDecember 12, 2014 at 10:11 AM
I am a Mental Floss junkie. One of the guys who started it went to Indian Springs School locally so I heard about it before their launch. I have been a faithful reader since then. If you (the universal you) don't care for tongue in cheek satire and want just absolute information than you might like The Smithsonian better. Personally I love both of them, but Mental Floss is closer to my true nature (smart ass)
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SnowbrushDecember 12, 2014 at 12:47 PM
Chickens are also close relatives of ducks. I learned this yesterday listening to NPR.
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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, December 11, 2014

See? I Knew It!

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