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Blonde, green eyes, six feet tall, 220 lean pounds. (Male). Loves include making videos of cats playing with balls of string and posting them to instagram, tiktok and youtube as quickly as possible (I have no cats of my own--so you can imagine the trouble that one has caused me). Hates include trying to take short cuts in video games and hitting invisible "walls".

Interests include writing memoirs on rainy days thoroughly Thoreau style, and by the reflective scintillas of Walden Pond. (Wasn't Henry Fonda in that one?)

Always wanted to be that protagonist guy in those Sunday afternoon bildungsroman Iditarod classics.

Prayers you ask? Oh, always said nightly, at foot of bed, and include subjects such as thankfulness for God Himself, for The Pentagon, and for COPs reruns.

Holds syncretic view to this ancient rocky universe, (and what? A syncretist can pray!) Loves votive candles shaped like llamas, loves playing hopscotch on the street by himself; or with random kids who still remember how (and who always ask me, "What the--?!" Ah. Kids these days). Recently singled, after girlfriend left me and my big flock for a guy with a much smaller flock.

Seeking someone with sense of the humorous (and with sense in either humerus) for dinners by gentle candlelight, who enjoys joining me in reciting lines from Breakfast at Tiffany's, as we stroll along boulevards made velvet in night and rain, beneath an umbrella meant for just two. If you so desire, I just may be your Paul, if you would so care to be my Holly

--oh wait! I thought I was updating my DATING profile. Oh! Now is my face ever cinder red!

Well, most of that is on-point. Except for that which is not. (Also bulls, bullfrogs, bulldogs, bulldozers will do, for votive things. Hm. Maybe not bulldozers--and what does 'votive' mean?)

I spent all day (week) quickly (slowly) moving house to somewhere (to a smaller apartment) with a rocking view (of neighbors walls) in a great location (a cemetery is a mile off). It is very peaceful here (No wonder--they're dead). Blue skies-- I see the sun (I see the dead, I swear they want to talk to me, but don't quite know how. Hum, and now we have happy tunes. Hum, and sweet now are thine happy thoughts). And all this moving house (how time shrinks while space dilates and all the boxes now look foreign: "kitchenware"? What on Earth?) makes Mitchell one tired and wired lad. And thirsty. And likes Southern food. And can recite alphabet backwards in under 20 seconds (how bored is one to even try?)

I like you peoples, (to phrase long forgotten Borat). I would like to talk more like you. About this chickens. I like chickens. They're nice!

I know how hard it is to keep them chickens going safe and happy. I got my first as part of a rescue mission. Before that , I never had an opportunity to discover just how intelligent, how intuitive, how sweet, chickens are.

Here I hope to give and receive (when my turn comes). And I hope always to give more than I receive. Thank you for receiving me. Good vibes to all :)
:lau How did I miss this?! Thank you, this was delightful. Alas, it will never work out. I'm old enough to be your grandmother (probably) and happily married, to boot. Ah well. We'll always have Paris. Chickens! I mean we'll always have chickens! Anyway, my hopscotching days are long past. Thanks for joining, your humor will find itself right at home here.
 
:lau How did I miss this?! Thank you, this was delightful. Alas, it will never work out. I'm old enough to be your grandmother (probably) and happily married, to boot. Ah well. We'll always have Paris. Chickens! I mean we'll always have chickens! Anyway, my hopscotching days are long past. Thanks for joining, your humor will find itself right at home here.
Aw haha Im glad you enjoyed it! You broke my heart. But at least, yes, Paris with its forever memory. *sigh* oh um! Me too, chickens, Paris, chickens, Paris, tomato, tomahtoe! :)

Thank you so much for your words! I love it here already. I hope my weird ways will suit BYC. Laughter is good medicine. Please be blessed. And if you ever change your mind about your husband, my phone number is 217-555......!
 
Yes, yes, I broke your heart, what can I say, it's what I do. You'll get over me.

But tell us about your chickens, your big flock of chickens. What kinds do you have and how many? How did you get into chickens? What do you love about them?
It will take time, BigBlueHen, O adieu Dear Heart, adieu! A man does not heal in a day, after love has flown the coop.

Oh it's great to have fun!

My folks are the real chicken people. (I blame them for my inherited propensity for chicken addiction). They took a largeish number of ISAs in, when I was 8 years old, adding them to the strutty Leghorns they already had. And sunrise, sunset, they have maintained that status quo to this date, Mam, numbering a few hundred.

So they have always been a part of my world, ("they"--the chickens, my parents). I have a sister without feathers. She and I always had chickeny duties to perform. I have an uncle (who develops acute bouts of Tourettes, but only when being harangued by the large parrots he tries to feed). He has served as an anti-poacher warden in Africa (where poachers post up wanted posters of the anti-poachers). He is currently employed in Australia. I spent a lil time (and a lot of money) there pretty recently (everything there is so expensive!) My sister without feathers wanted to go too, but she couldn't tolerate uncle's inventive vocabulary, nor watching cockatoos try to cause him permanent injury. ("Och! **&$%! I just got a wing to the eye!")

My family is European (Forgive us, please! Most of it was not our fault, I swear!) We have mixed European heritage (but none of that crazy stuff of the crazies...Oh wait , one of my aunts was in the OAS, Alors! Juste pour ajouter un peu de piquant). The British in me gives me old world etiquette (but only whilst playing darts. Whatever they are). The French in me, a touch of indignation and love of weird food, and the Finnish gives me craziness (Finns are angry composers or sculptors; spirited magicians or writers; bricklayers; or melancholic architects or doctors).

I saw the light! I commenced studying medicine. Then saw the light (again; same one, but brighter than at first) and stopped studying medicine. I have always been in love with outdoors, (the murk of morning Norwegian fjords; the muck and the mire of Dartmoor's moors...more or less). I adore birds. I have lost three, and my heart still has not healed.

I rescued a special case ISA from certain death. (Donne quoted in Hemingway, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls--it tolls for thee"). No death is isolated--it affects us all. Usually applied to people, I find it apt to include all tiers of the creaturely realm. I would not let her die, thus have my little hen with me.

I love language. I love people, especially when they feel super free to just be themselves ("Come as you are" goes the old hymn. Or was it Nirvana?). I love fun.

I love the people here, and am so grateful (grateful--full of grates?! What a language!) for everyone who has sent a little of themselves to me. (Now they are a little bit less, and I have all these body parts). But seriously, great people live here. Too many to name! But good energy flows. Ive been an immured Menonite (not really one of those, just used for decoration) for so long, a lonely existence. I am glad to have given BYC a chance. It's great here.

And I love chickens.

Butttt... buenas noches y dulces sueños. A tres bientot, as those Frenchies might say.

Thank you for saying hi. And now--to go check the unwatched pot on the cooker, my spoof post!
 

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