Body Weight

Some body weight is good. Today I put mine to good use. I pulled out the lawn mower and tied a string around the control bar and grabbed the starter rope with my bad arm. Instead of trying to pull the starter rope I held on fast and turned and threw my body weight into the needed tug. And that worked. I had tried to start the mower before , but couldn't do it. I just hurt my arm instead. Not to say my arm isn't hurting today because it is stiffening up even now, but I got the back yard mowed. Not as neat as a pin, but better. I don't believe I can get the trimmer started so it remains slightly raggedy along the edges. I didn't try to do the front yard. I will try that another day.

Working hard in the yard caused me to sweat a lot and maybe shed a couple pounds. However, it also increased my appetite. When I came in I made two tuna sandwiches and inhaled both of them. I guess all my pores are flushed out and my sinuses, too.

Because my arm is stiffening quickly I wanted to get this post written. I have another kettle of mixed greens to package into small freezer bags. That should give me six in the freezer. I did run out to the Dollar Store and buy some more along with a few other items. No candy or cookies...I looked the other way and got just what I intended to buy.

I let all the chickens out last eve. and let them roam the yard. The mosquitoes are out now and I was hoping they would dispose of a few. When it got dark they went "home" like good little chickens.

No Post on Sunday......End

Movie and eve. out

I went to the movies yesterday afternoon. I read the book and now have seen the movie of Angles and Demons. Both were good. The movie follows the book pretty well without deviating very much from the story. And the POPE said I could go see the movie...so there! After the move I had supper at the Chinese Buffet and the Pope wasn't invited..nope. I ate well, but not as well as some that I saw filling their plates to over flowing and going back for more. There is overweight..there is fat..and there is trailer wide. I am overweight and admit it. And the government is worried about the methane expelled from cows! HA!

Did you know that methane gas can be captured and burned like gas? Some farmers do it and years ago Mother Earth News ran an article on "how to" for urban dwellers to capture and burn the gases to light your own personal yard/street lamps.

This afternoon a photographer from the local paper came to take pictures of those criminal chickens that the city is prosecuting. Bad chickens...baaad chickens!! They will run a story in the paper in favor of chickens...I hope. They copied an article that my big sister sent from the University of Virginia pertaining to urban/city chickens. I also got some articles from the library and had them copied off from City Chicken.com and Backyard Chickens.com. I'm not going down without a cluck..squawk..or what ever.

I found out that chickens absolutely love melon rinds and the seeds and will scarf them down like they were starving...which the aren't. I believe I will let them out into the yard in the eve. to have at it. If I wait until about 7 PM they will be ready to go back into the coop as the light fails.

I took more stuff to the Salvation Army. All the stuff that was out in the rain yesterday was still out there this afternoon and the bins were still stuffed full. A little mis-management going on there, says I. I know that if you buy anything within the store it is overpriced. From now on I will take my donations elsewhere. At the Goodwill Store you ring the back door bell and they come and take it and help you unload, if necessary. Then again, there are those that leave their "donations" at the back door and take off leaving their trash/donation for someone else to haul off.

The "neighbor" came and finally mowed the their yard. However, the trash pile remains and has just about ruined my chain link fence, bowing it inward substantually. They don't live there, but try to rent it out. No one wants to live there, thus far. I had heard that when they lived in the trailer court around the corner they had to go in with a big truck and clean out the trash.

Thus goes the world and thus the End of this post.

Gone

I am going to Evansville soon so I will write this while my hair air dries. I really don't like a blower as it makes my hair messy and dry.

I cleaned my mixed greens in three rinses and put them in a kettle/pot with about one cup of water to par-boil. I also threw in one hot radish for the heck of it. You really don't need to par-boil very long, just a couple of minutes will do for greens. I tasted the greens and they are good. I guess I have enough for three or four freezer bags to put in the freezer. The par-boiling takes the "heat" out of the radishes, too. They stay crisp if you don't over boil them. I have the summer to pick and freeze greens.

Because I will be gone most of the afternoon and eve. I don't know how the chickens will fare. I gave them a good feeding this morning. They are confined (except 2) and are not out to forage in the yard.

While I was sorting stuff out I accidentally tossed out a cookie recipe that I wanted to keep. I knew I would toss somethingby mistake. Darn!

Big Brother has been transferred to a rehab center where they will make him do what he must and get up and about. He took a shower yesterday with an assistant. Knowing Harry He may have enjoyed that esp. if she was young and pretty.

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Where'd it go?

I stayed up until after midnight trying to retrieve yesterdays post. I can find it to edit it, but it will not send. I finally gave up on it.

I took a small box to the Goodwill Store. As I was getting out of the van I heard a loud noise and a vehicle coming to a sudden stop. As I turned to see if there was a wreak I saw this mother slide the side door open, yank her child out, and proceed with some discipline. I don't know what the little one did, but I'll bet she didn't do it again.

By the drop off door there was a couch that was so awful that only rats and vermin could love it; stained and filthy beyond hope. The lady who took my stuff in said it was going to the dump and that it had been "dumped" of for them to haul off. If they got it to the drop off door they could have taken it to the landfill, me thinks.

The Raiders of the Free Feathers were incarcerated last night. As soon as they went to their roost...bang..the inner door was closed and they didn't get out 'til this AM. I found that if they are closed in at night it is much easier for me to get into the run and close the outer door and do my feeding and stuff. They were not at all happy and jumping against the door window trying to make a bid for freedom.

I picked a big back of mixed greens to par boil and put into the freezer. It takes a lot of greens to make a full freezer bag. After the heat hit them the greens will wilt down alot. Now call me crazy, but I like to take the liquid, put a little salt and pepper in it and drink it. The liquid is also good in soups.

The radishes are getting a bit big and hot to the tongue. Today I discovered that if I cut them up into slices and fry them to a light brown they are crunchy and the bite is gone. I put some in with my pork chop and cooked them in the juices. Mmm, good.

I got my egg steamer in the mail today and need to try it out. I hope it works as well as the commercials say it will.

I don't know how Big Brother is doing as I haven't heard anything in about two days. I tried to call, but no one answered the phone. I guess my sister-in-law was either in church or at the hospital.

I need to take more trash out for pick-up in the morning. I cont. to get rid of stuff, a little at a time.

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Failure

My post for today did not go through dispite many attemps.

Know nothing

Yes, I let the chickens out this morning. Yes, It started raining. Yes, I got soaked. No, I didn't get them all back in. There are still about eight still running around the yard. So be it. There is an old adage that the "chickens will come home to roost." If true then I can get them in tonight.

I had some radishes from the garden. The Ice cycle radish was HOT! I did plant another potato in a big container, as I mentioned I would. I may plant a couple more if I can find more big contains. Some old onions that I tossed out are making little onion sets so I may transplant those, too I haven't gone shopping for food this week as I am pulling stuff from the garden and have meat in the freezer to use up.

Big brother has been up walking with a walker. I didn't tell anyone how serious a surgery he was having at his age. I tried to keep a positive and encouraging note in my conversations with his wife.

I continue to sort, discard and box items for the Salvation Army. I have a huge amt. of plastic bags they will get, too. I gave away a box of books and hope to get some more given way. I am still trying to simplify and dispose of years of accumulation.

I continue to try to upload some picture, but I guess I have to buy a program in order to do it. There is lots of things I don't know even though I got my first computer in 1982. I am open to hints and tutoring, if anyone wants to"help."

I turned on the AC because the humidity is so high. Just to get some of the moisture out of the air/house.

I guess I go before the city council next Monday. I keep hoping to find more information on line that I can use pertaining to city chickens.

NOTHING ON A SUNDAY

I've been out in the garden picking salad greens, lettuce, spinach, small Swiss Chard, mustard greens and even radish tops. I brought the greens in and run them through my handy, dandy salad spinner. I like that little gizmo as it is hand powered, cleans up easily and does a good job. I guess most gardeners have one, but even if your not into all things organic and buy your salad in a plastic bag that was shipped in from who can guess where, the are a neat hand appliance to have around. I also have one of those Vidalia Food Choppers. They are OK, but a bit harder to clean. They make good salads easier to prepare, too. A hard lesson learned is that they don't make very good meat choppers and take forever to clean as meat will will stick in every little cutting square.

There is always "one" who thinks he is bigger, smarter, faster and more daring than the other Hen House Critters. And that "one" is the big, red rooster that can skitter out the door faster than little greased piggies. Yes, the same one that decided my knee would be a good place to perch. Of course, he got out out again this morning. Well, I'm not chasing anymore. I waited until he decided he wanted back in; after all that is where the feed, water, and his cronies were hanging out and having a dust bath. When he got hot, thirsty and tired, he started to strut his stuff in front of the door. I opened the door and shooed him back in.

The beautiful weather will turn into a more seasonal climate in the next few days, hot, rainy and humid. I hope to plant some more radish seeds in the shade today. The very few that came up are hot. If I can get them in today it should rain tonight. My bucket potatoes are blooming. I will be eager to see how they produce. If they do well I will plant all summer.

Big Brother continues to recover. They get him up in a chair and he now is feeding himself. He does need a back brace at this time. His B/P is still fluctuating, but his heart is stable. He remains in a Neuro Critical Care Unit.

That's all for this day unless Obama resigns to become a preacher for the NWO.(isn't that what he is doing anyway...LOLS)

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