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

Y'know, I'm thinking of totally scrapping what I wrote yesterday--I think I may have come up with a more interesting/less negative way to cover some of the same ground, so I'll start getting that written up for tomorrow

Non-entry-related (since, after all, it's an odd-numbered day) but still chicken-related (since, after all, I'm me and they do seem to be my latest obsession, don't they?), here's some news I posted on the thread that I'm on the most (sort of reminds me of the Salon, except heavily weighted towards chicken discussions and most of the posters are in northern California--though most are still 4+ hours from here) on that chicken forum I frequent...

"It's a good thing that my daughters insist on being outside if they know the chicks are in our yard! The chicks were by the pond, and one slipped and fell in My older daughter scooped the chick out immediately, and brought it in to be towel dried (we don't own a hair dryer, never have). Dried it off in the bathroom, with the heat light/fan on, then moved into my bedroom, where the little forced air heater is, to get the last dampness out before taking it back out to go under Frieda."

Of course, 'twas a different smiley, as nowhere has the range or artistry of our smileys--though I've caught myself on here wanting to use something available there (but not near as often as wanting to use something that's only here over there).

Drove she to the water,
Every day at half-past nine,
Caught her foot upon an iPad,
fell into the foaming brine.

Deb