Yes, just when you are thinking there is no good news, ever, the chickens appear! Thanks to you, Joyce, I can greet the day with a smile at the possibilities!🐔🐣
Those are some mighty good looking chickens Joyce! Love the pics, appreciate your advocacy and common sense explanations on TV. Makes me feel better about the US that there are people like you in it and helping us to understand.
Memorial Day is one holiday where wishing happiness is incongruent with the occasion. For many, this is a sad and somber day. It has been a day of memory and tears for me since 1968. Fireworks that sound like guns and bombs also make no sense to me. Thanks, Charlotte
Same here. My late brother was born on 30 May, 1951. I was born in early June, a few years earlier. He departed from this world in 1996. May 30 is doubly somber for me.
Amen! At our house we regard living creatures as people. After you pay close attention to them for awhile you will begin to notice their personalities.
During my Army tour in Vietnam, 1969-'70, I decided that if I made it home alive I would stop killing things. It took me until January 1975 to stop completely. From 1975 through 1978 my diet was lacto-ovo-veg. From 1978 to 1992 my diet was strictly vegan. From 1992 to the present I have been lacto-ovo-veg. My wife has been lacto-ovo-veg since we married in 2001. So 49 years for me, and 23 years for my wife. We have no leather. Our shoes are synthetic and vegan. We are very thorough. Anyone who has sufficient motivation finds it easy and natural to avoid eating flesh. Lately I've been getting back into cooking. I would like to go back to being thoroughly vegan. I think the animals liked me better when I was thoroughly vegan.
Fair enough ... so long as you're not judgemental about those of us who eat meat, then everything is fine. Vegetarianism / Vegan is a choice, like being a Baptist, or anti-abortion ... but it gets ugly if people proselytise about their choices, and attack others.
Perhaps, but as a child of the 60s in Sydney (and a very poor part of Sydney at that), we had lots of chickens, and they were regularly (well, maybe six times a year) decapitated for our Sunday roast dinner. I still clearly recall the lethal tree-stump and my father's sharp axe!
My Memorial Day post in Substack -- "More Than One Greatest Generation?" -- is about also commemorating those who resisted the demand we fight in Vietnam, and about our country's need to acknowledge that different generations are called to greatness in different ways. https://mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/more-than-one-greatest-generation
We who were born around the end of World War II, and came of age in the 1960s, did something rare in the annals of nations: we rejected our own country’s “patriotic” call to fight, kill, and die in an unjust war. Instead, we participated in a fight for freedom here in the United States, confronting violent adversaries with peaceful determination in the civil rights movement.
Thank you for saying this, Mitchell Zimmerman. I marched my feet off against that war as a student. I have friends who were CO's and were given punishing jobs.
Yes, for sure. Daniel Ellsberg was a patriot. I resigned from US Naval ROTC and stood by my oath to protect and defend our Constitution and the integrity of our nation. Those officers and soldiers who refused to go were refusing to obey an unlwaful order, as they were required to do. Consequences be damned.
He's a liar, we know hes a liar. He's a philanderer, we know he's a philanderer. He's an egomaniac, we know it too. I believe Stormy and Michael Cohen, not him and his lying supporters.
My wife and I have a farm, and years ago we had a tenant who kept goats and chickens. She also had some ducks, but a few of the ducks appear to have eloped with a local fox. At any rate, all disappeared but one, and somehow she adopted a baby chick. The chick and she were inseparable. I dubbed the chick Dick and the duck Chuck.
May the chickens come home to roost for Donald Trump!
I second that!
And may his Pecker ... uhm ... nevuhmind.
Well done!
But, but...think of the poor chickens!
Don't worry, they will peck a wounded cohort to death.
I like to think of it as Karma coming home to roost. One chicken named Karma……
You are a lifeline of reason; you help us make our ways through the morass of crazy that is our government and our country today. Endless thanks!
Besides, you show us pictures of your happy chickens. And that makes me happy, too. Thank you, Joyce, for ALL you do for us!
Yes, just when you are thinking there is no good news, ever, the chickens appear! Thanks to you, Joyce, I can greet the day with a smile at the possibilities!🐔🐣
Yes, a jewel among the ordinary stones, a luster given by years of devotional service on behalf of her fellow citizens. Thank you Joyce.
Those are some mighty good looking chickens Joyce! Love the pics, appreciate your advocacy and common sense explanations on TV. Makes me feel better about the US that there are people like you in it and helping us to understand.
Sheila, a beautiful summation of how much we appreciate the wisdom of Joyce and the comfort of her chickens. Well said.
Memorial Day is one holiday where wishing happiness is incongruent with the occasion. For many, this is a sad and somber day. It has been a day of memory and tears for me since 1968. Fireworks that sound like guns and bombs also make no sense to me. Thanks, Charlotte
My heart is with you, Charlotte.
For me, May 30th is Memorial Day.
Same here. My late brother was born on 30 May, 1951. I was born in early June, a few years earlier. He departed from this world in 1996. May 30 is doubly somber for me.
My first friend in first grade was born May 30th. She passed from MS a couple years ago. I understand "doubly somber".
Yes.
Again, I wonder, why am I chicken smitten?
Chickens are awesome
If we all had a few backyard chickens in our families, we'd be less apt to want to eat them.
Amen! At our house we regard living creatures as people. After you pay close attention to them for awhile you will begin to notice their personalities.
Do you eat meat? Wear leather shoes?
During my Army tour in Vietnam, 1969-'70, I decided that if I made it home alive I would stop killing things. It took me until January 1975 to stop completely. From 1975 through 1978 my diet was lacto-ovo-veg. From 1978 to 1992 my diet was strictly vegan. From 1992 to the present I have been lacto-ovo-veg. My wife has been lacto-ovo-veg since we married in 2001. So 49 years for me, and 23 years for my wife. We have no leather. Our shoes are synthetic and vegan. We are very thorough. Anyone who has sufficient motivation finds it easy and natural to avoid eating flesh. Lately I've been getting back into cooking. I would like to go back to being thoroughly vegan. I think the animals liked me better when I was thoroughly vegan.
Fair enough ... so long as you're not judgemental about those of us who eat meat, then everything is fine. Vegetarianism / Vegan is a choice, like being a Baptist, or anti-abortion ... but it gets ugly if people proselytise about their choices, and attack others.
I'd say David walks the walk better than most of us. His post certainly was far from judgemental - yours really wasnt! Unnecessary.
Defensive, much?
IS that really your business?
😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻😎
I did for years - as I've posted here earlier on - mine had a great retirement program - so did my ducks, rabbits, etcetc.
Perhaps, but as a child of the 60s in Sydney (and a very poor part of Sydney at that), we had lots of chickens, and they were regularly (well, maybe six times a year) decapitated for our Sunday roast dinner. I still clearly recall the lethal tree-stump and my father's sharp axe!
Why not? ;)
Such beautiful, loving birds. May lady justice prevail. ⚖️🇺🇸📚
Happy Memorial Day Joyce and love seeing your chickens.
My Memorial Day post in Substack -- "More Than One Greatest Generation?" -- is about also commemorating those who resisted the demand we fight in Vietnam, and about our country's need to acknowledge that different generations are called to greatness in different ways. https://mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/more-than-one-greatest-generation
We who were born around the end of World War II, and came of age in the 1960s, did something rare in the annals of nations: we rejected our own country’s “patriotic” call to fight, kill, and die in an unjust war. Instead, we participated in a fight for freedom here in the United States, confronting violent adversaries with peaceful determination in the civil rights movement.
Thank you for saying this, Mitchell Zimmerman. I marched my feet off against that war as a student. I have friends who were CO's and were given punishing jobs.
Yes, for sure. Daniel Ellsberg was a patriot. I resigned from US Naval ROTC and stood by my oath to protect and defend our Constitution and the integrity of our nation. Those officers and soldiers who refused to go were refusing to obey an unlwaful order, as they were required to do. Consequences be damned.
Looking forward to tomorrow and your commentary on closing and jury instructions
Thanks for the pictures of those beautiful birds. They always cheer me up.
He's a liar, we know hes a liar. He's a philanderer, we know he's a philanderer. He's an egomaniac, we know it too. I believe Stormy and Michael Cohen, not him and his lying supporters.
My wife and I have a farm, and years ago we had a tenant who kept goats and chickens. She also had some ducks, but a few of the ducks appear to have eloped with a local fox. At any rate, all disappeared but one, and somehow she adopted a baby chick. The chick and she were inseparable. I dubbed the chick Dick and the duck Chuck.
We love you Joyce! And your chickens! 🐔 ❤️
Thank you for again sharing pictures of your family chickens. Special!
Great way to start off the week! New chick pics! Thx Joyce👏⚖️☮️🇺🇸
Fingers crossed!