Thanks for all birthday wishes this year! As I announced on FB, I am now the proud (?) guardian of a pair of peacocks and a big new book: The Red Book by Carl Jung. Approaching Infinity and his crew sent the book, the kids here decided on the birds. Don't ask me why, but they figured since I liked peacocks that I should have real ones. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them...
I made a gluten free cake with dried pineapple, raisins and carrots in it. It was drowned in a lemon/tangerine pudding. We ate "JoeFish" and fried sweet potatoes and fresh spinach.
I did a little putzing and relaxing during the day, watched a few music videos on youtube, watched the guys splitting wood out back, and then, just before bed, Ark and I watched a NOVA special on reversing magnetic fields on our new flat screen TV in the bedroom that was the "big" present. (It's not that big but it is supposed to give off less evil waves... and the tv we have had in there for years now was a behemoth that took up a lot of space and winked even when it was turned off!) We moved the old one down to the gym to use to watch exercise/dance videos.
Now, it's morning on "the day after" and it's cold as the dickens still though the light dusting of snow from yesterday is mostly gone. I'm thinking about ice-ages and, frankly, I don't like cold weather and it is a grim prospect. But I have to finish the final parts of the comet series and talk about this so I might as well get on with it! We have a lot of work to do with FOTCM and EE in the coming year!
I made a gluten free cake with dried pineapple, raisins and carrots in it. It was drowned in a lemon/tangerine pudding. We ate "JoeFish" and fried sweet potatoes and fresh spinach.
I did a little putzing and relaxing during the day, watched a few music videos on youtube, watched the guys splitting wood out back, and then, just before bed, Ark and I watched a NOVA special on reversing magnetic fields on our new flat screen TV in the bedroom that was the "big" present. (It's not that big but it is supposed to give off less evil waves... and the tv we have had in there for years now was a behemoth that took up a lot of space and winked even when it was turned off!) We moved the old one down to the gym to use to watch exercise/dance videos.
Now, it's morning on "the day after" and it's cold as the dickens still though the light dusting of snow from yesterday is mostly gone. I'm thinking about ice-ages and, frankly, I don't like cold weather and it is a grim prospect. But I have to finish the final parts of the comet series and talk about this so I might as well get on with it! We have a lot of work to do with FOTCM and EE in the coming year!
In late summer they shed their tail feathers under where they roost and you can gather them with little trouble for decorative uses or sell them if you have several birds like they did on the farm. If you get some peahens you may be able to raise them and sell the young--they appeared to be able to raise young with little human intervention and here they sell for about $50 apiece. I would like to have some peacocks here on my farm but I have a bird dog with a strong hunting instinct and haven't wanted to risk it at this time. 
