Speaking of energizer bunnies, Meg and I are going to slow down our postings a tad, which is the reason you get to enjoy Mr. Bunny an extra day. The feedback we’ve received is that we need to give more people more time to read our content. Not only that, but Meg and I want to free up some of our time to work on our Event Center plans and I have a bread book I need to finish. See you Wednesday morning bright and early, then Friday and Sunday. And then next Monday again. M, W, F, and Sundays, here we come!
Welcome New Sisters! (click for current roster)
Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards)
My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Denise Thompson!!!
Denise Thompson (levisgrammy, #43) has received a certificate of achievement in Garden Gate for earning a Beginner Level Backyard Farmer Merit Badge!
“We started our own flock originally by purchasing chicks from a hatchery. We had Black Austrolorps to start and used their eggs to hatch a flock using an incubator given us by my father.
The present flock are Black Sex Link and they were purchased from a hatchery. They enjoy free-ranging as much as possible and are fed organic feed. We enjoy about 6-7 big brown eggs every day this time of year.
We will be enlarging the flock this Spring.”
While our modern justice system might have its problems, it’s a vast improvement from the courts of old. Today’s word,
cephalonomancy
is a perfect example.
Cephalonomancy was used in ancient times to detect the guilt of a person accused of a crime. It involved, of all things, boiling the head of an ass.
Wha???
While boiling the head of the ass, the prosecutor would recite the names of possible suspects. If the skull cracked or the jaw moved when a name was spoken, that person was deemed to be guilty.
Engraving of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, 1875
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
