h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... instead of doing a wall-o'-text journal every couple of months or so, especially since I'm on here every day checking out my convos

We won't even mention how long it's been since I ACEd anyone

Anyway, it's been a busy couple of months. I'm yet again doing that online scoring thing, which is now paid by the hour instead of by the piece, which explains the abundance of shared things on FB That should be wrapping up in the next couple of weeks, and I can go back to not having a valid excuse for being online way too much...

On the livestock front, the chicks I picked up last November are all laying, and my prediction of light brown eggs with one white egg has come to pass. I've also run the incubator again--my friend in Tennessee was getting rid of the breeds she had that I wanted, so I struggled with the fact that I'd promised I'd not incubate anything unless my one hen was broody (which she wasn't) and discussed the matter with Tom--who didn't care either way So I received a well-packaged clutch of 16 eggs. Too bad the USPS smashed a quarter of them, broke 2 more, and scrambled 9... I did get one healthy Black Copper Marans chick--I just hope Fudge is a girl Hatch day was one week ago, so I've a few weeks before I'll know (note to self--ask Ravyn when her line of Marans tends to show indications). Of course, after all that, guess who went broody the day after Fudge hatched? Oh, well--she adopted Fudge and the companion chicks that I got from the feedstore with no problems, at least (As an aside--thanks to that feedstore being one that buys eggs, the chicks cost a whole $3 out-of-pocket. Even better, I had a buyer for the extra chicks before i bought them--one of the 4H moms at Notepad's last Clover Sprouts meeting said she'd buy them--and even if that falls through, it shouldn't be hard to sell them once they're feathered out and no longer need supplemental heat.)

Fudge sales have been slow--most likely because most people think of fudge-as-a-gift as a Christmas thing. But the Farmer's Market starts on June 4, and we're going to be in it. Free samples (within reason) and smaller chunks of fudge than we're willing to deliver should help sales. It's a good thing I decided to read my previous journal before writing this, though--it reminded me that I had to do the county paperwork for joining in the Farmer's Market 2 weeks before it begins I'll take the paperwork and the fee in tomorrow, and I'll be fine

The most recent news (about 21 hours old...) is that I'm getting serious about making it so that Tom and I can go to the UK for our 20th anniversary next year. I actually started a GoFundMe. I doubt I can post the lin and have it stay up, but if you're curious, you can search the GoFundMe site using my real name--you know, the bit up there before the "aka" part...

Last but not least, we're going to go camping for the long weekend. We're not going to have time to do anything fun between the end of school and the beginning of fireworks selling season, so we're going now.

Worth a try. Here's the link.

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Your "long week-end" is always one after ours. I lost one of mine to travel to a USAF Base for training, but caught theirs.

And my most recent one was spent with loads of old folks, an annual conference of a RCAF association. In our sort of a London-on-the-Thames

At 56 now, I'm still often the kid in the crowd.

Backed the project now

Hope to see you then!

Good idea visiting the UK have you decided where you are going to see

The Zens outside Edinburgh (and the city itself, I suppose ), MMF and kelli and Agapanthus and Happy in London, 2legs and W in Cambridge (not really sure how I'm going to prepare Tom for 2legs...), GB in Hull, hopefully, Pastey et al in Manchester, and, and... I think you see the pattern Obviously, this isn't everyone I want to see--this list is mostly just folks for whom I know the location off the top of my head Basically I want to see as many folks as I can. Heck, at this point, I don't even know how long we'll be over there. Since I can't even book plane tickets that far in advance (literally--the farthest away the calendars on the websites will go is May 2017, and we'd likely be heading over mid-to-late July, since our anniversary is on July 12--and PaperKid's birthday is July 11 (she'll be turning 14 in 2017, believe it or not!)), we've got some time to discuss things...

How do you plan to smuggle the chickens during the flight?

I've got over a year to figure out animal sitting/kid sitting.

How many eggs will have into chicks by then?

Given my track record with shipped eggs? Maybe one...

Amy, I'd suggest that since this is a trip of a lifetime, you don't spend all your time in the UK visiting your weird internet friends.

Keep it to three days, in three different locations. Probably Edinburgh, somewhere in the North of England and London, and meet h2g2ers there, leaving the rest of your holiday for yourselves and the wonders of Great Britain.

Is meeting Internet friends okay if they're not particularly weird?

We've discussed perhaps a week or two (well, actually, I said 2 weeks, and he didn't say no... We both have summers off, as our steady jobs are with schools), though we haven't done any serious planning yet, since we would most likely leave here mid-to-late July 2017, and the closest to then I can make any airfare estimator go is April 2017. The only request Tom has made so far is that he wants to see castles.

Even if they're in the sky?

You should put the 'Tower of London' on your must see list. The White Tower certainly is a castle in its own rite. If you go there on Sunday morning you can get free access if you tell them you have come for the service in the chapel. If I ever get there again I will put this at the top of my priorities. Last time I went to West Minster Abbey, which was a good service, but quite a bit less than I had hopped for.

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The tower is exceptional, there are many more some better than others, it depends on what time you have, you will get some good advice here

In 1990, the Crime Writers' Association voted Josephine Tey's "Daughter of Time" the greatest mystery novel of all time for its treatment of the alleged murder of the "princes in the tower" by Richard III. Richard was exonerated. What some people may not realize is that the Tower of London was a royal residence at the time. The princes weren't in the Tower as prisoners, but as residents, along with the rest of their family.

If you go to "The Tower" - - - two points.

- please do not try to pet them really huge and beautiful ravens. If you like most of your fingers.

- do NOT follow a hugely over-sided tourist who seems to grouch about everything, up a spiral stairs to the upper look-outs. Our 'grouchy' preceder decided with 3 steps to go that she absolutely needed to go back down the same route. It is narrow, no hand-rails, and purely one way traffic.

Otherwise, it is absolutely worth a walk-through and around. You can feel the centuries of history oozing out.

Also, if you choose to visit Westminster Abbey, it too has much beauty and history. How-ever, it is maybe the largest in-door cemetary you could possibly conceive of. It is rather morbid and chilling in that reguard.