"The Sound of Chickens"

I saw a Chick-Fil-A car today. The window graphics made it look like a cow was looking out the window at me. Their theme is cows declaring "Eat more chikin!"

NPR had a bit yesterday about "free range eggs."

The caption for this photo read: "Cage-free chickens in Harold Sensenig's barn near Hershey, PA., get to roam and perch on steel rods, but they don't go outside." Inside one of those houses, 18,000 chickens are milling around on the floor. Some are perched on metal bars. A few are madly pecking away at the plastic covers on my shoes.Sensenig has a deal with a local egg buyer, Sauder's Eggs, which is paying twice the going rate for cage-free eggs. Sauder Eggs, in turn, supplies those eggs to Unilever and Aramark.

"It's more expensive to produce eggs this way, Sauder says. You need more buildings for the same number of chickens, because you can't stack the birds on several levels in the same house. There's also more work involved — somebody has to walk through the chicken house collecting stray eggs that chickens laid on the ground, rather than in their enclosed nests.

"But the industry, he says, is responding to "the perception that cage-free is a better product than eggs from a conventional cage house."

"Do you believe that?" I ask.

"Sauder pauses. "From a nutrition standpoint, the egg is the same," he says."

Bob loves Prairie Home Companion Jokes. Here is a great song he played for me recently.
Laugh along!!

Some of the Most Exquisite Work

Signs, signs, as the museum owner said, history of America in signs.

Gold leaf, etched glass, fancy fancy stuff!

 

 

 

 

 

They rent their hall for parties to pay their electric bills. P & G was having a get together there the evening that we visited.

 

 

 

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Fun Outing with the Hunts!

Today we went to the American Sign Museum in downtown Cincinnati.

We saw everything from these HANDCARVED! wooden letters, to the first electric signs, neon, Hand lettering tools, gold leaf. It was great fun! Hope to take the Grandgirls one day.

 

Think I'll hook those girls with one of the You Tube videos.

 

 

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Why I like CNC

When I wrote recently about the turtles I could not find a suitable photo on line. I solved that by joining the Cincinnati Nature Center again so I can get my own photos! Here are a few reasons I like the CNC. Enjoy!

The honeysuckle was fairly wilted in the heat. Does so remind me of our visit with Betty and Dan!

Who ate the ripe black one?

More to come another day!

GRANDCHILDREN

In spite of the heat and the relentless aging of my body, these grandchildren keep opening forgotten springs within me. I have had all 4 girls to Cincinnati Nature Center recently. I will take Rowan soon.

The delight of feeding fish and turtles carries on to another generation!

 

 

They also stir old chant from memory. In the grocery I began telling Ellie, "Left, left, left, right, left." That led to (can you remember?) I left my wife, alone in the kitchen, with 48 children, and nothing but gingerbread, left, left, ...You may know other rhymes for that march.

 

Then in the car after our errands I asked Lizzie if they ever played the game, "A, my name is Alice, and my husband's name is Al, and we live in Alabama where we sell apples." We took turns working the alphabet all the way home.

 

Hope your summer is great, too!

 

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Our 25 Years Old Pressure Cooker

In Cincinnati we put a lot of pressure on our closer, Aroldis Chapman. Saturday he gave sad results as the Reds lost after Leake piched a terrific game, but Chapman could not end it well. It is hard to believe this "Cuban Missile" is only 25 years old! Watch these highlights and enjoy! Oh, and yes, we won Sunday!

 

 

 

 

 

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Scared of Spiders?

This is a new sort of weather woman!

 

 

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