So far today:
Nov. 21st, 2005 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasDropped Boopsie off at the vet so they can take X-rays of her bladder and look for bladder stones -- also gave them a list of other things that we've noticed for them to look at while they've got her.
Drove Lis to work. On the way, passed a sign in someone's yard saying "MOVING -- TAKE WHAT YOU WANT."
Stopped back at the yard giveaway after dropping Lis off. They're just moving down the street, but are using it as a chance to clean out some of their unused junk. I got a small bag of trinkets that will be good Student Bribes for Good Behavior -- we've been choosing one student each week who behaves the best, and giving them a reward. Things like a superball, a small packet of crayons, stuff like that. Some things are pretty cool: when my cousin![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kyshwn was moving, I took a couple pewter miniatures that he was throwing out. Now I've got a Chinese fan, a couple of those spinny-drum things like they had in that scene at the end of Karate Kid II, stuff like that. I thanked the guy who was moving, and told him that, as I teach Sunday school, I'm always on the lookout for these sorts of trinkets for my kids. He asked me what religion, and I said Jewish. (I must look obviously Jewish -- I mean, I usually assume that as I say I teach Sunday school, people will assume that I mean Christian, and not think to ask. I don't really mind one way or the other, but I find it amusing that people tend to not assume stuff like that. Amusing and heartening.) He said that he had some Old Testament trivial pursuit around somewhere, but couldn't find it. He teased me asking if I was sure I didn't want a creche that they had, which was, indeed, adorable. It was fun.
After that, I went to the house that had the "FREE RANGE EGGS $2/DOZ" sign outside. I drive past that house every day I take Lis to work, but had never stopped in. A friendly old woman came out to show me around, apologizing for still being in her housecoat. She's got a little studio where she does oil paintings -- seascapes and pet portraits mainly -- and a few self-published booklets on local history and the like. She showed me their poultry -- they've got a bunch of chickens, about four geese (as watchdogs, and because they're bigger than the chickens and can break the water on the water trough when it freezes over in the winter, so the chickens can also get water), a couple of ducks, just to have ducks, and a peacock. I asked, they're not selling the geese for eating -- they're just there to protect against predators and as pets. The geese did lay some eggs which hatched, but the goslings were deformed and didn't survive.
Pity: if they actually were selling poultry for eating, I'd learn shocheting, and do kosher slaughter of free-range, organically-raised, locally-raised birds.
Really nice woman, and I bought a dozen eggs, of which I've now eaten two, and they were wonderful.
Drove Lis to work. On the way, passed a sign in someone's yard saying "MOVING -- TAKE WHAT YOU WANT."
Stopped back at the yard giveaway after dropping Lis off. They're just moving down the street, but are using it as a chance to clean out some of their unused junk. I got a small bag of trinkets that will be good Student Bribes for Good Behavior -- we've been choosing one student each week who behaves the best, and giving them a reward. Things like a superball, a small packet of crayons, stuff like that. Some things are pretty cool: when my cousin
kyshwn was moving, I took a couple pewter miniatures that he was throwing out. Now I've got a Chinese fan, a couple of those spinny-drum things like they had in that scene at the end of Karate Kid II, stuff like that. I thanked the guy who was moving, and told him that, as I teach Sunday school, I'm always on the lookout for these sorts of trinkets for my kids. He asked me what religion, and I said Jewish. (I must look obviously Jewish -- I mean, I usually assume that as I say I teach Sunday school, people will assume that I mean Christian, and not think to ask. I don't really mind one way or the other, but I find it amusing that people tend to not assume stuff like that. Amusing and heartening.) He said that he had some Old Testament trivial pursuit around somewhere, but couldn't find it. He teased me asking if I was sure I didn't want a creche that they had, which was, indeed, adorable. It was fun. After that, I went to the house that had the "FREE RANGE EGGS $2/DOZ" sign outside. I drive past that house every day I take Lis to work, but had never stopped in. A friendly old woman came out to show me around, apologizing for still being in her housecoat. She's got a little studio where she does oil paintings -- seascapes and pet portraits mainly -- and a few self-published booklets on local history and the like. She showed me their poultry -- they've got a bunch of chickens, about four geese (as watchdogs, and because they're bigger than the chickens and can break the water on the water trough when it freezes over in the winter, so the chickens can also get water), a couple of ducks, just to have ducks, and a peacock. I asked, they're not selling the geese for eating -- they're just there to protect against predators and as pets. The geese did lay some eggs which hatched, but the goslings were deformed and didn't survive.
Pity: if they actually were selling poultry for eating, I'd learn shocheting, and do kosher slaughter of free-range, organically-raised, locally-raised birds.
Really nice woman, and I bought a dozen eggs, of which I've now eaten two, and they were wonderful.