ORChick's Not-a-Journal

[ORChick]

Boo for being sick over the holiday!!! Check the natural remedies, someone brought up a thread that used honey and onion to combat colds, sounds like it works. I am interested in trying it, just not too soon!

Have a very Merry Christmas despite the change in plans!!

I've been reading those threads, and they do look interesting. I think my own cold is on the way out; and DH would not be willing to try the remedies mentioned, but I will be starting some of the fire cider for me - it sounds like something that I would like (in small doses ), and should be ready for the next bout of winter germs.

My younger brother on the east coast called today, and he is NOT sick , unlike so many of his west coast relatives. He worked out that riding the bus to work cut his time getting there (as opposed to walking the whole way) by only 5 minutes, so he is walking more, and avoiding the crowds, and their germs, on the bus ... and says that this is his healthiest December in years! AND he is saving the bus fare. Way to go, Little Bro

 

[Denim Deb]

Walking is good-until you get sloppy winter weather! Or, is he in a spot that's not likely to get snow, slush and messy roads?

 

[ORChick]

Walking is good-until you get sloppy winter weather! Or, is he in a spot that's not likely to get snow, slush and messy roads?

I think he hasn't abandoned the bus entirely, just on days when it is feasible. He did say as how he rides when the temps get lower than he likes. I've never been to Rhode Island, so only know what he tells me about the weather.

Speaking of weather, my part of SW Oregon has been getting below freezing temps during the night for the last several weeks, but has been quite dry (no ice!). Yesterday was our first rain in awhile, though not much, and today it is a little warmer. I really do love living where I do - I don't "do" winter, and for many of you in harsher climates you wouldn't even consider what we get as "winter"

 

[Denim Deb]

Weather there is colder and snowier than what I have. They're farther north, and it's bad enough here!

As for the rain, I'd gladly send you some. We've had just too much since August and we're supposed to get even more.

 

[ORChick]

Weather there is colder and snowier than what I have. They're farther north, and it's bad enough here!

As for the rain, I'd gladly send you some. We've had just too much since August and we're supposed to get even more.

No thanks! I'm quite happy with the status quo; I know it will start raining here soon enough.

 

[Denim Deb]

Oh well, it was worth a try. I'd be even more willing to send it to the South West, but haven't had much luck getting it to go there.

 

[ORChick]

My little Silver Spangled Hamburg hen is quite nuts ... I wonder, do chickens get Alzheimers? She is the last of my original 6, and will be 4 in a couple of months. She has always been a little (well, actually, a lot) flighty, and has occasionally chosen to *sleep rough* - that is, in a tree somewhere, and not join her *sisters* in the coop. Mostly I don't worry too much; she is little, and flies well, and I know she goes fairly high in her tree. I have 2 coops, and she lives (technically) in the smaller one, with 2 other hens and a rooster. However, she spent her formative years in the other one, which now houses 7 hens and another rooster. In the little coop she is Queen of the roost; although small she has the advantage of age. In the other one she is at the very bottom of the pecking order, because she isn't among that crowd very often; the big girls peck at her, and the rooster is rather more than rough. BUT ... she is hanging around that coop when she is out, doesn't want to have anything to do with the other. Even the sound of the scratch bucket doesn't lure her in that direction. The last few nights she has slept in a tree; this afternoon I gave her the choice of going in the other coop, which she did, but the rooster chased her out. So she is in the tree again tonight; and it is raining, hard, though not cold. I'm thinking I will just let her do her thing; she has stopped laying now, for the colder, shorter days. Maybe when the hormones kick back in she will choose to go inside again, though maybe not. She has never been among the best layers, although, in her flighty way, I am quite fond of her. I was just thinking this morning that, although it would be sad, and I would miss her, it would certainly be less complicated if I were to go out one morning, and she is no longer there. I'm not wishing it though; but I will let nature take its course. Luckily even when it is *cold* here it isn't really cold.
Winnie the Pooh was a "bear of very little brain"; my little Hamburg appears to be a "chook of very little brain" ... but, as with Winnie, I am really rather fond of her.

 

[rathbone]

You read Pooh...I like you even more.

 

[ORChick]

You read Pooh...I like you even more.

Doesn't everybody?

No, I suppose not anymore. Just the Disney cartoon

 

[rathbone]

I honestly think reading is on it's way out. Someday it will be this strange thing that only a few of us still know how to do. I loved reading pooh to my children and realizing it was one of those books written on two levels so that the adult reading would enjoy it as much as the child did.
"sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail on a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known"