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Throwback Thursday: The True Story

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »

It’s bad enough when adult reporters try to get me to do their work for them, but it reaches a higher level of impudence when the person who thinks he can outwit me isn’t even as old as the last bottle of wine I drank.  –  “Not Last Night”

In real life, people don’t generally fall in love within two hours and live happily ever after; problems aren’t neatly tied up in time for the end credits; doctors and cops don’t have exciting, important cases every week; and the heroes & villains aren’t totally distinct and distinguishable by the color of their hats.   –  “Prolong”

Soi-disant “abolitionists” are perfectly willing to lie; to consign innocent people to the brutality of arrest, prison and even actual slavery; to break both laws and their own solemn oaths; and to sign the death warrants of women they profess to want to “save”.  –  “Believe Them”

Self-appointed “rescuers”…[a]re pathological liars crammed as full of shit as a backed-up sewer line, and their idea of “rescue” is rape followed by confinement in cages or sweatshops.  –  “Social Distancing”

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Vernal Equinox 2024

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on March 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

In the 3rd millennium BCE, the Pleiades were very near the point at which the vernal equinox occurred, which is why the goddesses they represent appear here today.  The apparent path of the sun crossed the equator moving northward at 3:06 UTC today, signaling the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern.  Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!

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In the News (#1422)

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 19, 2024| 1 Comment »

Infantilization of young adults is all the rage these days.  –  E.N. Brown

Winding Down (#1087)

Politicians are terrified of losing ways to destroy peaceful citizens’ lives:

Oregon [politicians have] overwhelmingly [signaled their disdain for the will of their constituents by voting for] recriminalization of low-level drug possession , reversing a landmark reform that voters endorsed when they passed Measure 110 in 2020.  Gov. Tina Kotek has indicated that she is inclined to sign the bill, ratifying a regression driven by unrealistic expectations and unproven assertions…[boss politician] Kate Lieber…claims, “we are…mak[ing] sure Oregonians have access to the treatment and care that they need.”  But Oregon is not merely making sure that people “have access” to treatment; it is foisting “help” on people who do not want it by threatening them with incarceration…

Still a Child (#1154) 

The 5th Circuit sucked Louisiana politicians’ dicks on this in 2018; will the 11th imitate them?

Florida [politicians have]…approved a bill banning 18- to 20-year-olds from being strippers or from working in any other capacity at an adult entertainment venue.  Like a similar bill passed in Texas in 2021, the Florida bill [was justified by vomiting out the phrase “]human trafficking[“, with the usual]…potential to…make abuse and exploitation worse.  It’s also part of a growing movement across the U.S. to push up the boundaries of childhood, [criminaliz]ing all sorts of things once legal for 18- to 20-year-olds…[if] Ron DeSantis…signs it, the law will take effect July 1.  Young adult strippers…would not themselves be subject to penalty.  Rather, the bill would make it a crime to…employ…someone under age 21…in these businesses…[even] if an establishment is tricked by a fake ID…It also says the employment must be done “knowingly,” so it’s unclear exactly how these two standards can coexist…

Thought Control (#1250)

Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool:

Hundreds of new books featuring characters of color and LGBTQ+ themes were found [in] the trash at a Staten Island elementary school…sparking an education department investigation…Some had sticky notes on them…A note on My Two Border Towns, about a boy’s life on the United States-Mexico border, read “Our country has no room and it’s not fair.”  A note on The Derby Daredevils…read…“Discusses dad being transgender.  Teenage girls having a crush on another girl”…a note on We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know read “negative slant on white people”…A note on Julian Is A Mermaid…read “Boy questions gender”…Notes on pages of Black Panther: The Young Prince read “Witchcraft? Human skulls” and “Pact with Devil. Burned in fire”…[the person who discovered the books said] “this [censorship] feels like censorship…It feels like book banning”…

I Spy (#1372)

Is having a shiny new status symbol really worth being spied on and price-gouged?

LexisNexis is a…global data broker with a “Risk Solutions” division that caters to the auto insurance industry and has traditionally kept tabs on car accidents and tickets…[but] General Motors [and other automakers are now surreptitiously providing data to]…LexisNexis…to create a risk score…for insurers to use as [an excuse for raising people’s]…insurance [rates]…In recent years, insurance companies have offered incentives to people who [foolishly] install dongles in their cars or download smartphone apps that monitor their driving, including how much they drive, how fast they take corners, how hard they hit the brakes and whether they speed.  But “drivers are historically reluctant to participate in these programs,” as Ford Motor put it…[so] car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry…[without] a driver’s awareness [or] consent…

Thought Control (#1405)

I’m unsure of how this affects Florida’s more widespread censorship problem:

…Equality Florida and Family Equality, [along with individual plaintiffs, have] reached a…settlement agreement with the…Florida Department of Education, and school districts that resolves their facial challenge to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law… The agreement effectively nullifies the most dangerous and discriminatory impacts of…the law…The settlement restores the ability of students, teachers, and others in Florida schools to speak and write freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in class participation and schoolwork.  It also…reinstates Gay-Straight Alliances…[and] requires the State Board of Education to…make clear that the settlement reflects the considered position of the State of Florida on the scope and meaning of this law…

The Cop Myth (#1420)

Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:

[A typical and representative] South Carolina [screw named]…Joshua Bradford..[h]as [been] charged with [aggravated] domestic violence…and [other felonies for]…shooting…[his wife] while she was holding a child in a [car] seat…

Note the attempt to obscure that this psycho is a cop by referring to him as a “sheriff’s office employee”; we’ve seen this weasel-trick before.

The Puritan Recrudescence (#1421)

Texas residents, like those of several other states, now need VPNs to watch porn:

Aylo has blocked access to Pornhub in Texas…following the decision by the…5th Circuit upholding the state’s controversial age verification law [while a challenge filed by Aylo and others proceeds].  The company posted a message explaining its decision, which can be read by those attempting to reach the platform in Texas…Aylo is also calling on all adult sites to comply [in this way]…

Pornhub has repeatedly taken the principled stand of refusing to spy on its users for the State.

 

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Diary #716

Posted in Diary, tagged , , on March 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

On Saturday I expanded the chicks’ nursery so they have more room to run around until I move them into the henhouse on Sunday; they always grow like weeds, so it isn’t surprising that they’re trying to fly up to the top of the wall and the food and water dispensers.  What is surprising is the variation in size of these chicks; usually they’re pretty hard to tell apart unless one has some kind of distinguishing mark, but this time the largest is noticeably bigger than the second-largest, which is in turn noticeably bigger than the smallest.  I’m not sure why that might be; it’s of course possible that one of them is male even though I bought pullets, because mistakes can happen.  But that wouldn’t explain why there are three different sizes.  The smallest one has a lot more white markings on her dorsal side, and the largest has almost no white at all; in conjunction with the size differential, I’m wondering if they might actually be related but different breeds which only look alike as chicks.  Oh, well, we’ll know soon enough; it’s interesting to have things be at least somewhat different this time, as long as they’re all female!

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Links #715

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Bladed garden tool:  cop dysphemism for “hoe”

It was Matt Welch who introduced me to a German cover of “Paint it Black” just over 4 years ago; now he’s shared a French one.  The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, The Onion, Jacob Sullum, Jesse Walker again, Wendy Lyon, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.

From the Archives

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In the News (#1421)

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Simply claiming that the “age verification preserves online anonymity” does not make it so.  –  Judge Patrick Higginbotham

Policing for Profit

Cops usually make up some pretext, however flimsy, for their armed robbery schemes:

Indiana State Police…located 26 shipping containers [full of military surplus and other equipment, plus] a…forklift…and a[n entire] locomotive [stolen] from the former Jeffersonville Powder Plant…[by] former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel…[by interrogating] Sheriff’s Office…employees [ordered to] move…the property…Defense Department…criminal investigators said the Clark County Sheriff’s Office had received $7 million in surplus property between 2015 and 2022 when Noel was sheriff.  Auction records…show…two air compressors and a generator [were] sold [in 2023]…Noel has been charged with 25 felonies…

Chauvinism (#335)

“Major events such as…the Olympics always provide an excuse for governments to ‘clean things up’ in the host cities before the guests arrive”:

French police [a]re cracking down on Paris sex workers ahead of the Olympics…Charities working in…the Boulogne and Vincennes woods…ha[ve] noted “increased police patrols ahead of the Games with heavy-handed identity controls on women working in the sex industry.”  They urged authorities [not] to…”rob, rape and assault [sex workers].”  French authorities[‘ pretext is a mythical] increase in prostitution during the Olympic and Paralympic Games which will begin on July 26 – something…[repeatedly disproven by years of reports and stud]ies…”Contrary to [government claim]s, sex workers are not in the process of arriving in large numbers in Paris where the cost of accommodation is constantly increasing ahead of the Olympics”…Other charities have denounced efforts by the French authorities to move migrants and the homeless out of the capital ahead of the Games…

The tagline quote is from an essay I wrote for Reason ten years ago; note what’s missing from their rhetoric despite its omnipresence in stories about the London Olympics?

Lack of Evidence (#1312) 

California pigs are still using “sex trafficking” myths to argue they should be allowed to assault, rape, and abduct women for merely existing in public:

…little more than a year after SB 357 became law, some [politician]s want…to once again criminalize loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution.  Supporters of the bills…[vomited a lot of ugly, moronic nonsense about how cops are brave heroes whose often-violent harassment of women on the street constitute] efforts to combat human trafficking [and women are much too stupid and pathetic to make their own decisions, so cops must be empowered to force them, for their own good of course]…

The whiplash-inducing speed with which California pivots on civil rights issues is one of the reasons I tend to be such an Eeyore on these baby-step reforms, which are mostly intended to distract activists and hush timid human rights campaigners.

The Puritan Recrudescence (#1405)

The 5th Circuit is, as usual, somewhat confused:

…the 5th Circuit [has] handed down a mixed opinion in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.  The Court unanimously upheld the preliminary injunction barring [Texas] from mandating pseudoscientific “health warnings” on adult websites.  By a 2-1 decision, however, it lifted the injunction against the state’s age verification mandate…this decision does not change the fact that platforms that do not implement age verification measures will be at risk of prosecution by the Attorney General, as has been the case since the Fifth Circuit stayed the preliminary injunction last September…As the dissenting opinion by Judge Higginbotham makes clear, [lifting the injunction] violates decades of precedent from the Supreme Court [requiring]…strict scrutiny to content-based regulations that limit adults’ access to protected speech…

Shame, Shame (#1405)

These ghouls have absolutely no shame:

Marilyn Monroe, who died 62 years ago, has been [imit]ated [by] a “hyper-real” [computer]-generated digital [zombie] that lets fans engage in a conversation with [a computer imitating] the late act[ress] — wh[ich] can answer questions “in Marilyn’s signature voice and style,” according t[o]…Soul Machines…which [claims]…the…chatbot…is able to read users’ emotions and respond accordingly via…proprietary camera and microphone technology…other recent…i[mitation]s [of] dead celebrities…include an animated biopic of French singer Edith Piaf that will use [a computer] to create a facsimile of her voice and image and the Calm app’s [computer]-generated [imitation] of Jimmy Stewart reading a bedtime story…

The Puritan Recrudescence (#1415)

Next time you find yourself wondering why Florida is such a perpetual cavalcade of crazy, visit this link and read the whole thing, then ask yourself what kind of defective intellect could possibly fall for even 3% of this egregious bootlickery.  The single fact contained therein is that Florida politicians have economized by creating one unconstitutional float to enter into two fashionable “monkey see, monkey do” parades, the “age verification” parade and the “social media is a tool of Satan intentionally designed to destroy Our Precious Children” parade.  WWSB couldn’t find even a single employee with low enough self-esteem to sign off on this turd, so it’s simply credited to “staff”.  I suppose an intern assigned to copy-paste a press release does qualify as “staff”, so at least that much is true.

The Last Shall Be First (#1418) 

Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses:

A newly proposed law in Missouri could charge teachers and counselors with a felony and require them to register as sex offenders if they’re found guilty of supporting transgender students who are socially transitioning…[bill sponsor] Jamie Gragg…said the goal of the bill is to [define legal minors as the property of] the family that they come from [without legal rights as individuals]…

 

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Tincture and Snakebite

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , on March 15, 2024| 1 Comment »

One of the ways Grace and I use cannabis is by ethanol extraction of THC from resin, then using the resulting solution in either concentrated (tincture) or dilute forms.  Due to Grace’s many health problems, one of which is severe arthritis, her THC intake is so high it would be cost-prohibitive to get it all from edibles; smoking doesn’t bring long-lasting relief, and doing too much of it is inadvisable anyhow due to her chronic lung damage from decades in the industrial trades.  She keeps a bottle of the tincture on her desk, and adds drops of it to her tea as needed; we use the more dilute form (which I call snakebite) in her soup, and I sometimes use it (very sparingly; “dilute” is a relative term, as you’ll see) in cocktails when I really want something strong.  We were introduced to both of these by a generous gent who used to make them for us, then decided to buy us the equipment and teach us to do it ourselves.  And now I’m going to teach you; it isn’t that hard, and the equipment isn’t terribly expensive.

The first step is to buy “dab wax” (resin) from your local legal dispensary; I’m afraid I have no idea how to get ahold of it in places where it isn’t legal.  In Washington, this is actually the cheapest ingredient; I usually get the highest-THC resin available from among the budget-priced selections, which are usually just over $10.  If we’re going to make tincture, I get two packs of an indica; for snakebite, a single pack of sativa.  I wouldn’t advise going any stronger until you’ve tried it at this level; as I wrote above, “dilute” is a relative term, and the snakebite is still very strong (just not as concentrated as the tincture, which one uses by the drop rather than the tablespoon).  Put the wax into a small beaker (we use an 80 ml size) and place that into a decarboxylator machine like this one; you’ll need to read the instructions carefully, but it’s fairly foolproof and has a light that turns from red to green when it’s done.  The beaker will be hot, so Grace usually lets it sit in the machine for about 30 minutes or so before attempting to remove it.

Once it’s cool enough to handle with bare hands, take it out and add about 60 ml of pure ethanol; you don’t want to add it too soon lest the beaker break.  You don’t need lab-grade ethanol; Everclear is 95% ethanol, and that works just fine (it’s also available at most liquor stores).  Next, you need to stir it very thoroughly, over heat; Grace insists stirring it by hand is not sufficient.  Here’s our magnetic stirrer in action; you can get similar units on Amazon.

You can see the settings Grace usually uses in this video. When you can’t see any more wax globules at all, either suspended in the liquid or stuck to the sides (roughly 45-60 minutes), you’re ready for the next step.  For tincture, that means simply pouring it into a small bottle with a dropper top; make sure you label it!  For snakebite, there’s an extra step.  If you look at the package the resin comes in, there’s a little chart with the THC content broken down; the one you want is “Total THC”.  It will be expressed as a %, and since the resin we get here comes in 1-gram containers, it’s a simple matter to work out the amount of THC in your beaker (93% = 930 mg, etc).  Multiply that by 0.75 to get the total # of ml of ethanol for your batch, allowing for what’s already in the beaker; in my example, the total volume of the finished snakebite should be about 698 ml, so if there’s 70 ml of solution in the beaker, I would add 628 ml.  You don’t need to be exactingly precise; you just want to know how strong the resulting solution is.  At these proportions, the snakebite is 60 mg of THC/45-ml shot; that works out to 20 mg per tablespoon.  You could of course make it stronger if you like, but I wouldn’t go much weaker because pure ethanol is over 3x as strong as typical vodka.  I keep it in a fancy decanter I bought from a garage sale when I was a teenager, and I add 8 drops of green food coloring per bottle so no guest at your house accidentally pours themselves a big old slug without asking what’s in the bottle (which may or may not have happened with one of our early batches).  You could use any color you like, but I chose green in Scotty’s honor.

Anyhow, that’s all there is to it; enjoy it in good health!

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Flesh for Throwback Thursday

Posted in Biography, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I’ve been charging for my favors in one way or another for over 60% of my life, and I have no plans to stop this side of the grave.  –  “31 Years”

Please feel free to ignore the crazy lady with the big tits and the outlandish opinions, and just keep doing things as the government tells you to whether they make any sense or not.  –  “Stealing Time”

Until mainstream “feminists” start including all women – even the ones who won’t obey them and whose motives for sex they dislike – “Women’s Day” is about nothing more than adding more kinds of authoritarians to the ruling class of a dying police state.  –  “Only Some Women”

The only person who is qualified to make decisions about which laundry to air and which to pack away in the cedar chest is its owner.  –  “The Quiet Ones”

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In the News (#1420)

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 13, 2024| 1 Comment »

The advertising technology ecosystem is the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.

Droit du Seigneur

What did this guy think he was, a cop?

A Las Vegas family court marshal is accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl…Bryce Tokunaga…is not [alleged to have harmed or threatened]…the girl [in any way, but bought her] condoms, food, hygiene products, hair and nail services, and…hotel rooms where she could [work]…Tokunaga [was caught driving the girl to a stroll]…

Despite the story being larded with the usual weird “sex trafficking” dysphemisms, what Tokunga actually appears to be guilty of is extremely poor judgment by functioning as the pimp of a girl who was already an experienced street worker despite her age and was determined to continue regardless of the State’s defining her as a passive, doll-like “child”.

The Face of Trafficking

Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths:

Gerardo Quijada-Soto…smuggled Javier Rodriguez-Castro from Honduras to the United States, through Mexico, along with 12 other individuals.  They initially crossed the border January 8, 2021.  Rodriguez-Castro was…taken to…Fun Noodle in Abilene….[where] he…observed a large stack of cash change hands between Quijada-Soto and owner of Fun Noodle, Hai Zhuang.  From that moment on, Rodriguez-Castro was…treated as a…slave.  “His passport was thrown into a water heater closet,” and he “was forced to work 10-12 hour days,” without breaks…In late summer…[he] was able to escape to Dallas…during his more than six months in captivity…Zhuang beat him, and…he was forced to eat scraps from customers because he wasn’t fed properly…

Pyrrhic Victory (#1306)

“Criminality” is a status defined entirely by the State:

At least five people have been detained in Moscow after attending the funeral of Alexei Navalny…One woman who attended the rally and was caught on video chanting “glory to the heroes,” a pro-Ukraine slogan, was arrested on M[arch 4th]…but allowed to return home the following day.  Police a[rrest]ed two other attendees [the next]…day, although the charges remain unknown…Moscow’s extensive surveillance system and facial recognition technology [was likely used] to identify attendees…[given that] several new surveillance cameras [were installed] around the church and cemetery [a few days before] the ceremony…

You Were Warned (#1396)

Politicians no longer bother to consider whether their new diktats are Constitutional:

Politicians won’t stop trying to make a TikTok ban happen…We went here with Trump, who tried to ban TikTok via executive order in 2020. (The courts said no, and the Biden administration rescinded the order.)  We went here with Montana, which passed a TikTok-banning law last year. (The court said no…though Montana is appealing.)  We went here with multiple bills…in 2022…and…in 2023…[which foundered] after being introduced…Now, here we are again, with a [theatrical] bill…call[ed]…the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA?)…[which] would…expand…presidential power to restrict Americans’ access to tools for getting and disseminating information—what could go wrong?… 

Creepy Coppers (#1411)

It didn’t take long for this one to demonstrate exactly what he is:

A 19-year-old [Florida man] was sworn in as a deputy on M[arch 4th]– but by sundown, [his employer] had a search warrant for his phone…[typical and representative cop] Kai Cromer…was [sent to lurk]…at a…high school…[and four girls] recognized [him as someone who]…had [demanded] explicit photos and videos over Snapchat…[by] telling [them], “I’m going to be law enforcement. I’m very powerful”…video of an underaged girl was found on Cromer’s phone which led to his arrest…

I Spy (#1412)

In mass surveillance, fascism runs rings around communism:

In 2019, a government contractor…named Mike Yeagley began making the rounds in Washington, DC.  He had a blunt warning for anyone in the country’s national security establishment who would listen: The US government had a Grindr problem…Yeagley was able to access the geolocation data on Grindr users through a hidden but ubiquitous entry point: the digital advertising exchanges that serve up the little digital banner ads along the top of…nearly every…ad-supported mobile app and website….[which make] your precise location available in near-real time to both advertisers and people like Mike Yeagley, who specialized in obtaining unique data sets for government agencies…Yeagley showed…all that information was available for sale, for cheap.  And it wasn’t just Grindr, but rather any app that had access to a user’s precise location—other dating apps, weather apps, games.  Yeagley chose Grindr because…when speaking to a bunch of intelligence agencies, there’s no way to get their attention quite like showing them a tool capable of revealing when their agents are visiting highway rest stops…

I’m a bit skeptical of this timeline, given that I’ve been aware of this collaboration since 2017, and I’m no tech expert.  But the article is lengthy and contains a lot of interesting information on this rights-destroying surveillance machine.

The Cop Myth (#1418)

Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:

A [typical and representative Alabama cop attacked]…his wife and caus[ed] her to miscarry…[in March 2022] Robert Allen Maddox Jr…threw his then-wife to the floor of their home…and began choking her…he…then began punching [her] in the stomach, causing her to miscarry…Maddox was arrested…and…four months…[later was] charge[d]…with…murder [because Alabama].  That murder charge was later reduced to one count of manslaughter [because cop]…

 

I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one.  Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful.  But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer.  So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets.  Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements.  Thanks so much!

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Diary #715

Posted in Diary, tagged , , on March 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Even though I have chicks every year, and intellectually know how fast they grow, I always manage to be surprised by it.  Take a look at last week’s video, then look at this one; they were taken only 8 days apart, on March 1st and March 9th.  And by the time I wrote this post last night, they’ve developed still more and are now fluttering up to the tops of their food and water dispensers.  They’ve begun to throw shavings around, so I now have to clean their water several times a day, and it won’t be much longer before I start finding the thing absolutely clogged with shavings every time I go in there.  This weekend I’m going to expand their enclosure to double their area, then on the 24th they’re scheduled to go into the nursery in the henhouse; it’s a good thing we’re supposed to have a week without rain starting tomorrow, because I need to get the henhouse cleaned and the nursery ready before the 24th.  Oh, and the old blues need to be out before then as well.  I know it sounds like a lot of work, but it’s only once a year.  And totally worth it for a copious supply of fresh eggs.

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