got sooo much reading to do for class. actually on to the nitty gritty of school now. finished those first 2 years of classes that mean nothing to my degree, which means finished the easy classes that i didn't have to learn anything for lol. but now, well, now i have to read and read and read, because now i have to learn. i read a lot anyway, but in small increments and stuff i don't have to pass tests on. to read to learn, to read to learn to pass tests, requires a whole different kind of reading, one that includes volumes of notes and an awake brain. that kind of reading is tough with dogs, chickens, kids, baseball, gardening, planting, etc., etc.! at least the subject matter is interesting!
saw a meme on FB about some judge who sentenced a rich dude to probation for raping his 3 year old because he "wouldn't fare well in prison". isn't that the point of prison? so that pedophiles don't "fare well". i know what i'd like to do to a dude who raped a 3 year old. were i already in prison, those visions would likely come to fruition. those visions include lots and lots and lots of mop handles.....
the weather has turned lovely! picked up some baby kale, spinach, and chinese cabbage yesterday, got some rainbow chard already sprouted. will put it all in the ground very soon! the collards and kale that self-seeded in the fall and over-wintered under hoop houses are growing wonderfully. ate fresh greens from the garden yesterday. MMMM. kale and eggs. right from my garden. can't beat that, eh!
god i love this dog. she is where i get all my (non-sexual of course) intimacy from. face hugs. warmth. joy in my presence. i love her!
I'm so bad. I gave mine some leftover chicken. Cannibals, they are. They eat almost anything I give them except what I expect them to eat. They even ate a bunch of my succulent plants, which shocked me.
as to gmo-free/organic, yeah, none of us eat that way. some stuff i buy is organic, but mostly i can't afford it. and if us humans aren't eating that good, the birds, dogs, and cats aren't either. my promise to the animals i cohabit with is that their lives will be as good as mine. that's all i can promise, really, but i do promise that. and, thus far, that's how we all live; on par with each other. would be great if i were super rich and could feed us all organic, but i can't. so we deal. the chickens actually probably eat healthier than the rest of us because they free-range lol. although they are NOT allowed in my garden, so don't get to chow down on my lovely organic veggies, but they get all the scraps and the thinnings and the weeds that i pull (which is often chickweed, which they love!), so they're not really missing out on much.