Monday 19-03-2018 – “Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens”!

I found out my humidifier has a crack in it…after it leaked out on the carpet. 🙁

Paw up waves ~ Last Monday in Winter: Yay, Spring Starts Tuesday – Northern Hemisphere!

No Chicken’s around here either!
Lunchtime soon…

Li’l lunchtime card game goin’ on:

Ok, time for li’l lunchtime walk…back later/hope…
Pretty day – nice/fresh walk as +40 and sunshine!
Here’s a timely share with Rooster/Chicken story:
https://www.thedodo.com/on-the-farm/pet-rooster-meets-girl-school-bus

Chicken/Rooster FYI: A rooster, also known as a cockerel or cock, is a male gallinaceous bird, usually a male chicken. Mature male chickens less than one year old are called cockerels. The term “rooster” originates in the United States, and the term is widely used throughout North America, as well as Australia and New Zealand…
Sigh…time to get back to desk…

Gaah: FYI #RatMeat as #ChickenWings
http://tmzbreaking.com/million-pounds-of-rat-meat-being-sold-as-boneless-chicken-wings-in-u-s-2/

Reminder: Check your Labels Closely 👿 😡

Good afternoon all! I had my annual doc checkup (everything’s ok) and then went to the grocery to get lots of fruits and veggies–Avery will be here tomorrow and she loves cutting up things and eating them. It’s great because I don’t really have to ‘fix’ anything–we eat grapes and apples and bananas, and cauliflower, tomatoes and cucumbers too!

I love that my oldest dau has chickens–free eggs! The best eggs ever too and they are producing about 15 a day!

Her cats and chickens hang out with each other too, along with a couple of rabbits that run in and out of the chicken house whenever they want.

Great pics! Love the roosting ginger.

Re joint replacements: they are definitely something to postpone for as long as possible. Yes, they can relieve the pain of seriously damaged joints and restore mobility, which is a definite health plus, but there are several reasons not to rush in to it. 1. It’s major surgery, with all the risks that entails. 2. It’s a foreign body that can act as a focus for infection – if you get an infection anywhere else in the body, the nasties can lodge in the implant; only remedy is to remove it, scrub out the joint, and put in a new one – with plenty of antibiotics on the side. Even routine dental work carries a risk once you have a joint replacement. 3. The reason you need to wait until you are old is not that the replacement joint wears out (titanium, stainless steel etc. are pretty durable) but that your surrounding bone and tissues can wear out. The joint design is pretty good, but metal doesn’t behave in exactly the same way as bone and so there are extra stresses on the bone the implant attaches to. This can mean further pain and more involved surgery down the track.

Happy Tuesday all, it’s hot and sunny and the washing is drying on the line. HRH Shadz is eating well now we have cooler nights and I am happy about that.
We used to have chickens when we were farming, there was Freda,Gertrude and Hannah and a few others who for some reason didn’t have names and there was a stunning rooster who had an amazing black shiny tail that glinted blues and greens in the sun. They were a friendly bunch and loved to sit on my arms much to the delight of our toddler Meegz at the time.
JK, I just proved your post by using the term rooster. 🙂
Love the story about Frog the rooster.
Wow KZ, that is a good amount of eggs peer day. Plenty to share around. When we first went farming Mr MS bought a dog from a chicken farmer and she had the shiniest coat you could imagine from eating the ‘jellybelly’ eggs that hadn’t formed a shell but were just membrane covered. No chance for eggs on a sheep farm though.
PG, the medical powers that be don’t like spending $$$$ and if you can still move then you don’t need surgery they seem to think. They put an age limit on the surgery so they hope you will be too old or worse for the next replacement surgery when the first one wears out. I’ve reached that magic age when they will consider me for a new knee/s but I would turn it down now. They gym has had such a positive result on my knees. The tape is great, really easing the injury to my foot even during a workout.
We can have chickens in our backyards here, not sure what the limit is but definitely NO roosters. One neighbour on a large piece of land has chickens,geese and ducks. I love listening to the ducks as they waddle out of the creek all chatting away and telling jokes. Their quacking sounds like laughter. The geese are fascinating and I love hearing a hen announce that she has laid an egg.
Yes, Snopes said that story was fake.
PM, thanks for that bit about joint replacements and what can happen. Makes more sense than the story I was told.
I see there has been some terrible bush fires in Aus and still are. Over 70 houses lost in one small town, that is horrendous. Thankfully no human lives lost but sadly some pets died when people were not able to get to their properties to rescue them. 😥 I hope they can get all the fires under control and extinguished soon and that there is no more lightning to start new fires.
KZ, living with pain is a pain and the relief must be wonderful and being able to do ordinary everyday things again without having to think will it hurt me or not.

I understand the point of waiting on replacement surgery. My point is if you’re in extreme pain and have limited mobility, it shouldn’t matter whether you’re 45 or 65. Yet, so many medical plans require age as a factor. My knee replacement was last fall and I understood and still understand the long-term effects of post surgery. I’m good with it.

KJ-what are we going to do with you, honey? This has been going on for quite some time and I’m wondering if its not more serious. Of course, we all know that stress doesn’t help but I haven’t figured out a way to fix it.

Here’s info on the tape:
https://www.meyerpt.com/body-sport-physio-tape

I hope they can contain the fires, PM. We’re planning for a long fire season due to lack of moisture.

Yes, that was upsetting me too (as were all the fires down under). Not TMI, but I had an UTI last autumn and had never felt sicker. I’m sure that if I’d been in a benighted place with no medication and para-medication (probiotics were very important for me, as was homemade chicken soup) I could have died. Thinking about people in Haiti after the earthquake, or war refugees. I couldn’t eat solid food for a month; mostly drank water. I really hope you are better soon.

It is beautiful looking at the light that lingers, even at half past seven. Gives me more energy. Livia is all revved up!

The rat meat story seems like fake news. Rats were often eaten in wartime, sieges and other horrible times. Alas, cats were sometimes too, but that meant a proliferation of …rats, carrying disease and pestilence in the wake of war or natural disaster.

We historians are a jolly sort, eh?