In my head I'm saying "30 days hath September, April, June........"
After my retirement,
I just don't keep up with the actual date anymore -
unless I have an appointment to keep or something like that.
Just last night there was the rare Blue/Blood/Super moon.
In a matter of days, on February 13th, it will be Mardi Gras.
Then Ash Wednesday is on St Valentines Day,
And Easter on April Fools Day.
Weird.
Is there a connection to the recent odd weather and all of the calendar oddities and the apocalypse?
Is there maybe some kind of esoteric, metaphysical connection?
Will Giorgio Tsoukalos be championing an alien abduction, or
will we see an actual landing in Sedona at the Vortex???
Have the conspiracy theorists said anything on these phenomena yet?
Just hang in there,
Someone, somewhere, will "connect these dots" and either make a splash on TV
or form a cult about it.
Some evangelical preacher will use it to bring in his fold.
SciFi TV will make a "special" about it.
The historians will delve into past references and similarities.
The occultist will use it as an "I told you so", moment.
People these days believe themselves to be so enlightened,
they have the most information at their fingertips than ever before in history
but they choose to not see simple logic.
So funny!
Personally,
I think its rather neat!
The moon trifecta, the calendar days and the weather. Isn't it great to be alive?
At least I can look forward to this.....
As I've said before, most all of our plants have passed on to plant heaven.
Its gonna mean all new planting in the spring.
Yay!
I'm looking forward to perusing the local nurseries to see what will be available.
This is the remains of amaryllis.
I think the bulbs are dead along with the leaves.
However,
some of the plants refuse to lay down and give up the ghost.
The Poplar is budding!
And,
the Louisiana Irises are trying to pop their heads out of the dead grass.
They grow by rhizomes.
The rhizomes creep out of the planting beds, so essentially, the Louisiana Iris is a weed.
A hardy weed.
After a break of a couple weeks,
the girls have resumed laying.
This is Nugget.
She is soooo curious.
I was looking for life in the plant population in the backyard, and
she almost tripped me trying to keep an eye on what I was doing
She was being kind of vocal, but kept quiet while I talked to her.
I picked her up for a quick cuddle, then she flapped her wings to be let down.
I've been watching them to make sure their tender parts,
like, edges of their wings, comb, wattle and feet,
didn't get frost bitten.
They made it through this winter quite well.
Chicken FYI:
Darwin was wrong about the origin of the chicken.
He maintained that chickens derived from only one type of red jungle fowl, but
DNA has shown it was several species of jungle fowl.
The yellow legs and feet came from yet a different fowl and early man bred this trait into them.
No one knows why the thing about the yellow legs was a big deal to early man.
Maybe the yellow legged ones layed better, or were hardier than the others.
Me,
I think its kinda cute.
Can't imagine a chicken with brown legs or pink ones.
Oh,
The girls are eyeballing me at the kitchen window.
I think I'll go out and play with them for a bit.
:)
(to clarify, Lucy and Ethel have dark or dusky legs and they lay a darker brown egg, so not all domestic chickens have yellow legs)
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