I am not giving you a new trivia tidbit because I posted one last night. However, I would like to report some exciting news. Today, our cow Nicole gave birth. She produced a healthy, female, pure-bred Jersey calf named Mabel. The birth was eagerly anticipated. The entire farm staff had spent 30 minutes staring at a cow's butt, growing depressed each time it spurted poop instead of a cute baby animal.
Afterwards we processed 45 chickens. I apparently impressed the livestock coordinator with my mad skills. I may have a future in bird slaughter.
By the way, I would like to apologize for not recognizing all of the parties who produced correct answers to the last trivia tidbit (Bob). I will try not to do it again. Maybe I should follow businesses and schools' strategy for managing members of the Millenial generation: Give every individual an award to their contribution. To quote Barney the Dinosaur, "Everyone is special / Everyone in his or her own special way!"
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- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
- Equus (Peter Shaffer)
- Full Circle: A South American Journey (Luis Sepúlveda) (also known as Patagonia Express)
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (J. Maarten Troost)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
- Hija de la Fortuna (Isabel Allende)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Little Pink Slips (Sally Koslow)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Sexo en Nueva York (Spanish translation of Sex in the City) (Candace Bushnell)
- Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
- Symposium (Plato)
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson)
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens)
- The Witches of Eastwick (John Updike)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time (David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson)
- Tunnel Vision (Sara Paretsky)
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3 comments:
And when you say you "processed" 45 chickens, by that do you mean "grabbed them by their feet, slit their throats and dangled them till they bled out, then cut off their heads, dipped them in a vat of boiling water, slammed them against the feather plucker device, followed by other chicken 'processing' details inappropriate for a family-oriented blog that quotes from Barney the Dinosaur"?
We're impressed by your courageous earthiness Antigone. You ARE special!!!!
And repeatedly using the s-bomb in comments on this so-called "family-oriented blog" is not inappropriate?
Barney just stopped by and beat the poop out of me, so we're good now.
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