PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: I found a rock!

Saturday, February 10, 2018

I found a rock!

I went to Publix to find reduced Christmas ice cream and maybe some Thin Mint ice cream since it is that time of the year and someone, maybe sluggy, said it was on sale.

There is a station in Publix where a woman cooks and serves samples. She was not working at that time, so no samples. I was looking at the recipe she used today. I put my hand on the counter and was puzzled by a heart cookie decorated and sitting on the edge of the counter. I gingerly touched it. It was a decorated heart-shaped rock. Someone had taken a foam heart and put a heart sticker on it and glued it to the rock. It looked just like a Valentine cookie.

Finding the rock made me so happy. I imagine a little kid wanting to paint a rock and the mother saying, "let's just decorate one with stickers.

There was no clearance Christmas ice cream and no Thin Mint ice cream. At least I had something to bring home, make me smile, and forget how much I wanted ice cream. This is my second rock I have found. I lost the first one and was sorely disappointed.

Your turn
Have you found a painted/decorated left for someone to find rock lately? Or ever? Do you paint rocks and disperse them for people to find? Do you skip rocks on water? Tell me your rock story...lol...seriously.

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Ur-spoFebruary 11, 2018 at 12:29 PM
Thanks to a pun on my name, I have always been found of rocks. I have many lying about. I have a rock I painted back in 1968 for my grandfather.
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ktFebruary 11, 2018 at 6:51 PM
We have many "special" rocks around here! Most of them were picked up on our camping travels years ago, with a few that contain little specks of tourmaline that we found near an abandoned mine. They are mostly lining the edges of flower gardens, so we can enjoy them every day.
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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.

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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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Saturday, February 10, 2018

I found a rock!

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