Rosita, my 9 month old Golden Spangled Hamburg pullet and member of my breeding stock, was attacked by a dog yesterday. Someone’s Wolfhound (cross?) had gotten into my yard through fencing that was designed to discourage birds from leaving the yard – not for keeping dogs in or out. It then knocked over another section of fencing and got into… Read more →
Fat People Should Wear…Whatever The Hell They Want
Despite what fashion magazines, billboards, and basically the entirety of media would like you to think – the average woman is a size 16/18. That’s right. The average woman is what falls into “plus size”. The average woman is told, inherently, through her clothing – that she is more than just one woman. She is one woman PLUS a bit… Read more →
Virtual Spaces And The Men Who Demand Ownership Of Them
For those of you who have been following my continued harassment on Facebook – I want to share something with you. “Beard said she would not block her opponents because “it feels to me like leaving the bullies in charge of the playground. And it’s rather too much like what women have been advised to do for centuries. Don’t… Read more →
Rationalizing Emotions
I’ve been really depressed lately. Like really depressed. Like barely wanting to live depressed. Don’t freak out and call the authorities* – I’m 100% fine right now. But I want to talk about a thing that frustrates me a lot when I’m depressed. I talk about my problems with mental illness pretty openly. I’ve always refused to be intimidated into… Read more →
Burning Bridges
I’ve had to let go of a few old friends recently. Nothing was inherently wrong with the friendship itself, per se. More or less, I hadn’t seen some of them for fifteen years. I was a very, very different person than I had been when we were bffs back in the day – because I’d been, you know. A child.… Read more →
That Damn Pecking Order
BTW, y’all, it’d be reeeeeeal nice if the Instagram peeps stopped picking at Tino of @rooandcrew every time he posts a video of his birds fighting, with demands that he make them stop or reporting him for cock fighting. Recording a chicken fight that is happening near you is not, in any way, cock fighting and you devalue the fight… Read more →
On The Great Dumpster Fire Of America
(I use BetterHelp for online counselling – which I highly recommend. This was originally a post to my therapist, hence the inclusion of information some might see as obvious. It just occurred to me that it would also make a decent post.) I’ve come to realise more and more over the last few months that my mood really started… Read more →
Beak Trimming
It’s uncommon, but sometimes chickens need to have their beaks trimmed. This isn’t the same as debeaking whereby a day-old chick’s beak is burned off with a hot knife to the point where the growth matrix is damaged, inhibiting its further growth for the rest of the bird’s life. We breed our own birds and don’t believe in debeaking… Read more →
Oopsie Bread Recipe
If you’ve ever gone low-carb in an attempt to lose weight, you’ve probably pined for bread – or at least the versatility that bread can bring to a meal. Suddenly, without access to sweet, sweet carbohydrates, meals get more complicated. How do you have a burger? How do you have toast? A sandwich? Pizza? Breadsticks? Lasagne sheets? At first, when… Read more →
Nutella Rugelach
It’s Hanukkah. To me, that means family, food, and tradition. One of my favourite Hanukkah treats is the trusty rugelach – a fancy rolled up cookie. Rugelach is a transliteration from Yiddish, that basically means little twists – hence the shape! There are LOTS of different interpretations (Yay! Transliteration!), but little twists is the one I like best. Even though this isn’t a fried… Read more →