Bantam Chicks

I bought two bantam chicks for pets. All my chickens are pets, sort of, but I want these to be pet pets. It is all the rage in Hollywood. Silly me, I just want to be like the stars, JK. I think it will be fun to tame them so they sit on your shoulder or lap. I will have to make some chicken nappies for them. Aunt Alicia showed me a website about a lady who has done that, and she has the cage next to her bed at night. I don't think that is going to happen.

One chick is a white Frizzy. That is why she looks all messy around the neck. Her frizzy feathers are just growing in.

The other is some sort of crowned chick. She has some pin feathers coming on the back of her head, but she is younger and just looks like a normal chick right now. She moved around too much and her pictures were fuzzy.

I hope I get some time to tame them soon.

Nonsense stuff

By Cora

The Alphabet (Cora Woodruff )

A Bear Came Down Eating Fries

Good Horse I Just Kill Lions

Maybe Nobody Offers Perfectly Queenly Robes

Smile To Utterly Visualize Wicked Xylophones

Your Zip-line


Here is one of my favorite nonsense recipes from Edward Lear:

Nonsense Cookery (Edward Lear)

Amblongus Pie

take 4 pounds (say 4 1/2 pounds) of fresh amblongusess, and put them into a small pipkin .
cover them with water and boil them for 8 hours incessantly, after which add 2 pints of new milk and proceed to boil for 4 hours more.
when you have ascertained that the amblongusess are quite soft, take them out and place them in a wide pan, taking care to shake them well previously.
grate some nutmeg over the surface, and cover them carefully with powdered gingerbread, curry powder, and a sufficient quantity of cayanne papper.
remove the pan into the next room and place it on the floor.
bring it back again, and let it simmer for three-quarters of an hour.
shake the pan violently till all the amblongusess have become a pale purple color.
then having prepared the paste, insert the whole carefully , adding at the same time a small pigeon, 2 slices of beef, 4 cauliflowers, and any number oysters.
watch patiently till the crust begins to rise, and add a pinch of salt from time to time.
serve up in a clean dish, and throw the whole out the window as fast as possible.

BooBoo (not the dog)

Oops. Mega Pictures. I need some more lessons. I used compose this time and there was no options.

Boo and Abby

Here are the pictures of the dog haircuts as I promised a while back.  I learned how to post a picture.  The haircut was a couple of weeks ago.  They had lion cuts in the winter, but no pictures.  Now they were getting a regular summer cut and it was still cold.  Abby shivered all the time so she has Boo's t-shirt on.  Her t-shirt would not stay on.  Abby was so knotted up from her lion cut that I had to shave her head and ears, too.  Now she looks like a puppy, or a terrier or anything but a poodle.  Hop you like the pix.

Dalek

For all the Dr. Who fans out there, this is my Dalek.  I made it in my preschool when we learned about robots.  The star is it's shooter, and the pipe cleaner the plunger-like thing.  I love Dr. Who and the Daleks.
Otto