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the chooks are here

Well, as some of you may know, the eggs that Rafter was setting on started to hatch on Wednesday. By Friday morning when I left for Tennessee, all nine had hatched. None of Phoenix's chicks had pipped yet, as she had gone broody after Rafter did.

Well, upon my return, my mother informed me that all eleven on Phoenix's clutch had hatched as well! Now, only two of those eggs were actually Phoenix's. One was from Matilda, our other half-bantie, and the remaining eight were from our standard chickens, although we're not sure which rooster sired any of these chicks. Now, on to the pictures!

Some of Rafter's bairn. All of them are hers except for the chick farthest to the left. That is the single chick resulting from someone managing to get in there while she was still laying in her secret spot.

Phoenix and "her" bairn. A very colorful bunch so far.

One of the interesting color variations. Several chicks from both broods are black like this with rust-colored faces. One of the chicks from Rafter's bairn, Pan, has that color all over, as evidenced below (Pan is the farthest to the right):

Isn't 'e cool?

pirates are unimaginative

       "You know, for all that pirates are clever-called, we are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things."
        "Like?"
        "I once sailed with a geezer lost both his arms and part of his eye."
        "What did you call him?"
        "Larry."

Meet Larry.

on romney

Leave it to a random commenter on WorldMagBlog to verbalize the feeling that has been lingering in the pit of my stomach since I first saw him on a debate:

"He's extremely photogenic, wife is gorgeous - as is his family - and, of course, he's worth a quarter of a billion to boot. From a political PR man's perspective, I suppose Romney is a Republican packaging dream. I also think Romney is the political equivalent of a bright, shiny object. If birds had voting rights in the US, no doubt they'd vote for him in flocks." - Scaramouche

Bright, shiny object, indeed.

the story of my life: an ipod meme

Well, I was browsing over at Everyday Mommy (http://www.everydaymommy.net/everyday-mommy/2006/9/5/moms-for-modesty.html) - apologies for the unhinged link, but my pop-up blocker is being belligerent and won't allow blog dialog windows to come up - and I came across this meme. Due to the fact that I love memes, but lack an iPod (a problem which you, my readers, could remedy if you chose to be so benevolent), I opened up Napster and set my master playlist up to shuffle.

This is honestly how they all came out; some of the ones toward the end do not make much sense, but quite a few at the beginning turned out to be quite humorous, either in title or in content. At times, it was both. Enjoy, and if you post the meme on your own blog, leave me a link in the comments. I enjoy reading these!