Game On
1. If pictures are picture perfect, then poetry is the warts and all truth.
2. “Dance is poetry of the foot,” said John Dryden. It’s proven HERE.
3. Read a fascinating account of how New York author Dorothy Parker’s ashes came to rest at the NAACP in Baltimore HERE.
4. Parker’s self-composed epitaph: “Excuse my dust.”
5. My dad’s epitaph is going to be hard to beat. It reads “I’ll see you in apple blossom time.”
6. I was well into my adulthood and living in the country before I discovered that “a possum” is actually “an opossum.”
7. Virginia opossum was the first animal to be named an opossum; usage of the name was published in 1610. The word opossum was borrowed from the Virginia Algonquian (Powhattan) language in the form aposoum and ultimately derives from the Prot-Algonquain word *wa˙p- aʔθemw, meaning “white dog” or “white beast/ animal”. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. ~ Wikipedia
8. Best line seen on Facebook this week – Irony: the opposite of Wrinkly.
9. I have a mental block on the Spiderman song. Every week I babysit Bryce he teaches me the song, but by the next week I’ve forgotten it. Joe has no trouble, though. Listen HERE.
10. At what point does a venture become an adventure?
11. Today I found myself wondering if it was okay to feed chickens parts of their own eggs as table-scraps?
12. You know how people who open businesses like to frame the first dollar they make? We just got six chickens and within the first day they laid three eggs, which, since I can’t frame, I’ve been photographing.
13. Alfred Hitchock’s epitaph: I’m in on a plot.
Your turn. Go HERE.
June 14th, 2012 3:17 am
I’ve always wondered about the o in opossom. Keeping chickens and collecting eggs is fun, except we always used to have a couple of stroppy ones that pecked. I hope you don’t have that problem!
June 14th, 2012 7:41 am
This has me wondering what my epitaph should be. Something witty, I think. Or punny. But I’m at a loss this morning to come up with something creative.
June 14th, 2012 9:32 am
OMG!! You have chickens now?? Cool! xo
June 14th, 2012 10:22 am
I thought it would be fun to watch them in the pen this morning while I sewed but there is one bully picking on this one hen relentlessly so, it’s not as much fun as I thought. Got lots to learn and am hoping to keep the critters at bay. Gonna check the egg boxes soon. So far three in the first day.
Last birthday I got an IOU for a chicken coop, so I guess it’s a late birthday present. We bought the coop and Joe put up some wire fencing.
PS We had the boys for an overnight with another one coming up next weekend.
June 14th, 2012 2:30 pm
I love this one: “8. Best line seen on Facebook this week – Irony: the opposite of Wrinkly.” Made me giggle.
Have a lovely, productive week!
June 15th, 2012 4:10 pm
I want chickens, but hubby said if we get them we would become vegetarians because we would stop eating poultry; he is right!
Hope you have fencing under the enclosed area and that it is connected to the sides so when the raccoons and/or other animals try to dig in they will meet fencing instead of getting inside as soon as the hole is big enough. Our neighbors lost all 4 of theirs to a raccoon because they failed to do this. Was soooo sad.
June 15th, 2012 7:11 pm
They are in a wood/wired coop that is inside a fenced pen and even this is temporary until Joe can build a more permanent structure. If a critter digs under the fence it will have to dig under the coop to get in.
June 16th, 2012 4:51 pm
Synchronicity -I’ve been reading Dorothy Parker this week and come here today and learn she is buried in Baltimore on the NAACP grounds. Interesting.
Blast from the past- Joe singing the Spider-Man theme song. Cool.
Feeding eggs to chickens- Found this at backyard chickens.com
“Hard-cooked and scrambled are a good source of protein, and a favorite treat. Feed cooked eggs only because you don’t want your chickens to start eating their own raw eggs.”
I guess that means chickens sometimes eat their own raw eggs. I did not know that.
June 17th, 2012 12:28 am
4 & 8, heh & heh.