He made no commitments.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Coop...Who?!
He made no commitments.
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Still a full house in the nest boxes. While the two stripey girls look on, I found the yellow mama hen trying to squish her way into the first box. If you look closely, you'll see why there's not room for Faith and Mama Hen...
It's because Rooster was in there! What is a rooster doing in a nest box? He scratched around in the straw for a minute, pushed the girls right out of the way.
Then when he realized I was looking he popped right out, proud as he could be.
I had a little talk with him. I said "Rooster, we're low on box space at the moment. Would you mind leaving the first room open for the girls who actually produce something?"
He made no commitments.
"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." -- Voltaire
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He made no commitments.
On solitude and chickens
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Thoreau
- There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette
- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -- Rilke
- As innocent as a new-laid egg. -- W. S. Gilbert
- Raising children is like being pecked to death by chickens. --Anonymous, but my mother gave it to me!
- Language...has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. --Paul Johannes Tillich
- Life begins when you plant a garden. -- Chinese proverb
- The great omission in American life is solitude...that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. --Marya Mannes
- If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. -- Russian proverb
- When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. --Antonio Porchia
- Cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the eggs. -- Attr. Margaret Thatcher
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
Where we get information
What We're Reading
- White Truffles in Winter (Kelby)
- The Night Circus (Morgenstern)
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (McCullough)
- My Name is Grace (Hanover)
- In Harm's Way (Stanton)
- Oh, Johnny! (Lehrer)
- State of Wonder (Patchett)
- Shadow of the Wind (Zafon)
- At Home (Bryson)
- In the Garden of Beasts (Larson)
- Black and Blue (Quindlan)
- The Princess Bride (Goldman)
Who's Reading Us?
What We're Listening To
- Best of Leonard Cohen
- Just Across the River (Jimmy Webb)
- Georgia Hard (Robbie Fulks)
- Between the Lines (Janis Ian)
- Country Club (John Doe & The Sadies)
- Bible Belt (Diane Birch)
- Somebody Else's Troubles (Steve Goodman)
- Sundown Lady (Lani Hall)
- The Splendid Table (podcast)
- The Alternative Kitchen Garden (podcast)
- Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)
- Good for What Ails Ya (Patent Medicine)
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Miranda Lambert)
- The Edge of the World (Buddy Mondlock)
4 comments:
Wow, he's a handsome fellow.
For a roo, he looks sweet.
mine think I'm going to eat them if I try to touch them.
He's supervising. It's a surprise nest box inspection. "Good job, girls, keep it up."
Hi Johana! Great to hear from you. We did have fun with our intern, Emma. xo
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