Monday, February 8, 2010

Day 29 - chickens

Did about 30 minutes of calisthenics, stretching, jogging/walking around the house. Check!!


It's really nice to feel grateful for a lot of things. Everyday things like weather reports on the internet, being able to look up things on the internet, calling people to find information, and chickens. One can never be too grateful for chickens. They eat ticks. They're funny, and they're simple.


I actually wanted to get some this past summer, but the local ordinances say I can't. I am sore tempted to say screw the ordinances. A neighbor has chickens, and there is something in the ordinances that say if you live on what used to be farm land, you can have chickens, even if you are in an area currently zoned as a denser suburb. This is slightly maddening. By most stretches, this is a rural suburb, lots of deer, wildlife, and space, so why not chickens? These ordinances were written in the seventies, and I wonder if there was something about the 70s that made people do and think dumb things...Or if I were being charitable, perhaps it's just a matter of which side the pendulum is swinging.


Anyway, chickens.

They rock.

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