Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Eeek! I missed whole pages in my slightly muddled catchup yesterday! Now more comments make sense...

Yes and yes! Most quilts here are thin, and stuffed with a cotton batten layer, thicker false duvets are cheaply available with synthetic batt filling and usually described as comforters. I have several Wool blankets, and feather duvet. And now a comforter as well (DH saw it on sale at Walmart and decided we needed yet another bed cover) We layer up for winter... edit to add: the duvet was DH’s first Christmas gift to me, replacing the -10degree sleeping bag I was using in my dad’s basement suite, which was also basically an icebox! He started getting all Fancy and replacing my random “it works???” Bedding bit by bit.

I suggest not the Little Giant Styrofoam one if you can find something better! How many eggs are you thinking of hatching and from who? Phyllis... have you been having Date nights with BLU?

Phyllis has not laid an egg in a month. Good thing she is cute.

 

[MaryJanet]

I think politicians are far too well paid. It makes them forget how ordinary people struggle. Perhaps politics should be an unpaid service to one's community...?

It used to be. But that precluded poor people from participating. I think their wages should be bang on the average and means-tested so a genuinely motivated but not wealthy person can get a little more for stepping up and contributing their voice to the nation's debates.

 

[Kris5902]

I think politicians are far too well paid. It makes them forget how ordinary people struggle. Perhaps politics should be an unpaid service to one's community...?

Andrew goes on about this as well! I agree, if there was less Money, and Power involved, the job might attract better applicants (not true in all cases, but in too many unfortunately)

 

[MaryJanet]

Phyllis has not laid an egg in a month. Good thing she is cute.

Reminds me of Mary's long holidays. I'm sure she only lays eggs because she's bored of being on holiday

 

[BY Bob]

At this time, with all the genuinely nasty poltical division in the US, it's genuinely heroic work.

You are most kind. I have always tried to serve my country and my fellow humans.

 

[Ribh]

Andrew goes on about this as well! I agree, if there was less Money, and Power involved, the job might attract better applicants (not true in all cases, but in too many unfortunately)

Lord Acton had it right: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And yet democracy still seems to be the most equitable way humans have come up with to manage a country.

 

[BY Bob]

I think politicians are far too well paid. It makes them forget how ordinary people struggle. Perhaps politics should be an unpaid service to one's community...?

Interesting thought but would that not lock in the wealthy as the only ones who could afford to do it? Not that it isn’t that way now anyway?

 

[Ribh]

Interesting thought but would that not lock in the wealthy as the only ones who could afford to do it? Not that it isn’t that way now anyway?

Damned if we do; damned if we don't...

 

[Shadrach]

You can also love your hens, and eggs too! And I can love my Roosters, despite being a woman! Lol

There is a reason for chicken keeping here being more of a mans thing and that is a lot of the real enthusiasts had at some point relatives involved in cock fighting.
Thankfully very little of it goes on now but the desire to keep roosters seems to have been passed father to son.

 

[BY Bob]

Lord Acton had it right: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And yet democracy still seems to be the most equitable way humans have come up with to manage a country.

Not to extend this debate any further as I worry we might offend someone but I think the thing the founding fathers missed in setting up our country is how loath people are to give up power. There should be limits to the number of years you can serve. It should not be a profession. If they were limited in their time, the politicians would not spend so much effort in guaranteeing they cannot be beaten.