Nixie Knox says bawwwkbawwk!
We tried to tell her “But Nixie, everyone LOVES chicken!”
Nixie says I am so not amused.
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Wendell Berry:
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
--from an essay in "The Long-Legged House""The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness."
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
--both the above are from essays in "The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays"Is this so hard to believe?
"An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor, or Ba'al, or The Golden Calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further," Richard Dawkins, 2002.
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Feline facial expressions are so universal. She looks seriously unamused in the top picture, and fairly “Gawd…what I put up with!” in the second. Thanks for the laugh!
That is hilarious! Thanks for brightening up a dreary rainy (again) Saturday.
How long did she tolerate those indignities?
Sorry, kitty… that is a really cool hat. Bawk!
🙂 Happy Halloween!
AWWW, what a cutie.
She’s no fool.. she knows where your chickens vacation.
Kate, hah. What’s funny is she is seriously the sweetest cat ever, so that she could even look slightly unhappy is a bit of a revelation to us.
Ali, you too? We had 2.5″ of rain on Friday night. Like we needed another drop. Glad I made you laugh, though.
Sylvie, the mere seconds it took to photograph it. SO not happy.
CC, it would look great on a certain puppy I know, too. It would probably fit better as well: Nixie is not exactly a small creature.
You too MC!
Thanks Suzy!
Pamela, hah, she does know. She is scared to death of the chickens, too.
The look of resignation is priceless!