PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: White Dinner

Saturday, March 16, 2024

White Dinner

Thankfully, the weather did not affect us. We kept our electricity. There were terrific winds and rain that kept us in. As usual, I could not sleep at all. I have forgotten when I slept today.

The Valentine's Day balloon is still going strong. At the rate it is deflating, we will have this on the 4th of July. I will not ever want another. Since I am not a teen apt to tape the balloon to my bedroom wall, and I hate to throw it in the trash, and do not want to keep it, I will find it hard to toss it.

I did sleep from 10:30 until midnight. I did sleep from 2 pm until 6:30. Tommy woke me and told me to get up, it's 6:30. I could not figure out what he was talking about. UGH I could have slept longer. I did cook dinner. I cut eyes out of red potatoes. They went into a cooking bag with seasoned chicken. I had cooked cabbage last night.

We had a white dinner--baked chicken breasts, baked potatoes, cabbage. Obviously, I did not plan for it all to be white. The chicken was next thing we were going to cook. The cabbage had been here about three months. It smelled like rotten produce. But, when I peeled off the awful leaves, it was perfect. And, it no longer smelled. Dinner was delicious. The spices on the chicken did add color.

I have been watching this young violinist, She dances as she plays. She is talented. Maybe you will enjoy her, too.

Since I could not keep my eyes open, I took a nap. I got up at midnight. So, that is it. Nothing happened today.

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BelindaMarch 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Naps can be the best sometimes. A white dinner sounds good to me, we love cabbage cooked or served any way you make it, although I do love coleslaw especially.
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TiffanyMarch 16, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Have you ever heard of the violinist Lindsey Stirling? I met her at a concert in 2013.
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Ur-spoMarch 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I am glad for days with 'nothing' in them.
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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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Saturday, March 16, 2024

White Dinner

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