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Author: theMan
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Beyond Fashion
Feeding chickens is like attending a fashion show. Only, instead of aloof models parading down a runway, I watch contented chickens who have no idea how fabulous they look. Why is it that fashion models never smile? They look so unhappy. It doesn’t make me want to buy their clothes. I’m not the only one puzzled by this. According to Professor Ketelaar in the New York Times article Solved: The Mystery of the Miserable Models, “lower status individuals appear to smile more than higher status individuals.” And since fashion designers are trying to cast an air of high status to their line of clothes, they don’t allow their runway models to smile.
Well, maybe if they got to wear clothes with designs as fabulous as my chickens, they’d smile more.
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How a Fern Grows
Before a fern can be born, it needs a soft bed. Soft fern beds don’t come from the mall, they grow from baby moss.
And when the bed of moss is large enough, a baby fern can start to grow. They’ll grow together until one day, they form a lovely garden in the sky.
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Popcorn – Homegrown!
On a lark, I planted some popcorn last spring. After letting the ears dry for over three months this fall and winter, I tried popping some today. Success. It’s exciting when things you didn’t think you could grow, do. We’re indoctrinated to believe that we have to buy our food, and yet it’s not true. We can grow a lot of things ourselves.
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Curious Chickens
Chickens are as curious as cats which are as curious as dogs which are as curious as ? Curiosity is universal. Researchers have identified many parts of the brain such as the anterior cortices, the striatum, the hippocampus and dentate gyrus, the parahippocampal gyrus, the amygdala, the anterior pituitary, the nucleus accumbens, the precuneus, and caudate nucleus as being involved in curiosity.
So when Miasa and her 11 week old chicks come running to see what we’ve brought home in the truck, their brains are firing away on all cylinders, as are the brains of many of the other chickens. They’ll keep investigating what we’ve brought until their curiosity is satisfied.
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Our Solar System Goes Live
On a frosty morning, the new solar system looks like a piece of art. This morning, the installers put in the production meter to tie the system to our electric system. With sunlight streaming down, I watched our meter stop incrementing until late afternoon. Early in the afternoon, the state electric inspector arrived, inspected the system, and gave the OK for our local utility company to come and install a new meter. The current meter isn’t capable of subtracting usage from our account. The new meter will count backwards when we are generating more power than we are using.
Even the sun celebrated this evening by painting the evening clouds.
