Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

https://www.worldhistory.org/protagoras/

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Ancient-Greeks-and-Romans-know-how-to-measure-temperature

NO

 

[RoyalChick]

Now you 2 make me curious.
Thought is was a joke with the name Pythagoras or some other greek . Is there a 21st century person who posts stuff under the name Protagoras? Or….

PS indeed Protagoras was a Greek philosopher. But was did they use for temperatures in those days? Celcius I can imagine. But Kelvin and Fahrenheit were not around in those days for sure.

PS2
Celcius is much later too.
Anders Celsius (Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂˈsɛ̌lːsɪɵs]; 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744)[1]

What did the old Greeks use to say anything about temperatures?

It isn’t about Greeks measuring temperature.
Protagoras is often interpreted as saying ‘there is no objective truth (or measurement)’ and that everything is relative to individual experience.
The @Molpet post on Fahrenheit captures that philosophy perfectly!

 

[RoyalChick]

Greek philosopher tax.
Broody Tassels preparing her bath for the day.

 

[Perris]

What did the old Greeks use to say anything about temperatures?

As RoyalChick said, I didn't cite ancient Greeks for temperature scales. Protagoras' best known saying is, roughly translated, 'Man is the measure of all things'. Molpet's post is that exactly.

 

[Perris]

Tax due from me too no doubt: 5 roos should put me in the black for a while

They had been in an even tighter group before I got the camera out: a walker was going past with a dog (on a lead, I'm pleased to say). Anyway, evidently they all assembled near the gate to warn it off, and were just dispersing again by the time I got the camera.

 

[ChaosMom]

Tax due from me too no doubt: 5 roos should put me in the black for a while
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They had been in an even tighter group before I got the camera out: a walker was going past with a dog (on a lead, I'm pleased to say). Anyway, evidently they all assembled near the gate to warn it off, and were just dispersing again by the time I got the camera.

How is your mini-swamp (the water line leak) doing?

 

[Perris]

How is your mini-swamp (the water line leak) doing?

this is what it looks like this morning just down from where it bubbles up

 

[ChaosMom]

this is what it looks like this morning just down from where it bubbles up
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Urrgh.

Your Mexican orange is still looking ok. If necessary, could it be lifted and placed temporarily in aerated soil? (It looks awfully big.)

I guess if it starts failing, you could take a lot of cuttings from the branches and start again.

 

[Perris]

Urrgh.

Your Mexican orange is still looking ok. If necessary, could it be lifted and placed temporarily in aerated soil? (It looks awfully big.)

I guess if it starts failing, you could take a lot of cuttings from the branches and start again.

The Mexican orange blossom is much too big to move; this is the 60% left after my cutting back to give access to the leak area

and this is what it looks like from side

you can see from that why this has been one of the flock's favourite places to hang out to rest and digest btw.

None of the choisya ground resting branches had naturally rooted sadly, but I took lots of cuttings from the wreckage, and I did find a young self-seeded version of the tree behind whose name I have forgotten but is a nice evergreen: the one right behind the choisya , just right of the new big hole in the border

so I popped that in a new gap near the house where a pink elder once was, and I'm hopeful it'll take in its new location, near the bins where I can keep a close eye on it

(the upturned bucket is a temporary measure to stop the flock digging for goodies in the disturbed soil round its relatively small roots)

 

[RoyalChick]

The Mexican orange blossom is much too big to move; this is the 60% left after my cutting back to give access to the leak area
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and this is what it looks like from side
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you can see from that why this has been one of the flock's favourite places to hang out to rest and digest btw.

None of the choisya ground resting branches had naturally rooted sadly, but I took lots of cuttings from the wreckage, and I did find a young self-seeded version of the tree behind whose name I have forgotten but is a nice evergreen: the one right behind the choisya , just right of the new big hole in the border
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so I popped that in a new gap near the house where a pink elder once was, and I'm hopeful it'll take in its new location, near the bins where I can keep a close eye on it
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(the upturned bucket is a temporary measure to stop the flock digging for goodies in the disturbed soil round its relatively small roots)

Hope it takes. I put bits of broken stone paving stones around newly planted shrubs to foil the chickens. It seems to work quite well.