The school bus came and went before the sun got up. It was cold this morning but then it clouded up and a breeze is blowing, so it has hardly warmed up any.
Black Dog Salvage gave me a canvas and asked that I do a painting for the SPCA art show so I got to work on it this morning and being a 12x12 it didn't take too long to finish. For some reason the thing reminds me of Vincent Van Gogh. Strange! Vincent Van Kluck?
I didn't do a whole lot outside today, brought a couple loads of wood off of the trail today and stacked it as it needs to dry some. These chickens were out at the edge of the corn field in some wild turnips, digging like crazy, I can't imagine what they were eating but it must have been worth all of the scratching.
I went up on the hill after 4 to get Dusty, it was windy and cold. Supposed to get down to the teens tonight. Dusty got the last apple from the fall, they have been in the root cellar laying on a cooler lid and have held up pretty good. I put him over at the stable again so he can get out of the wind.
There's a knowing, human intelligence in that eye!
ReplyDeleteYes, I imagine they set around and calculate all kinds of equations and have plans to build things that we haven't ever thought of but they don't have hands with which to turn any of their plans into works of wonder. A very frustrating life, that of a chicken!
ReplyDeleteThe painting is gorgeous! Have you tried selling your unsold works on ebay? Or etsy? You have such talent! Thank you for the glimpses of it that you post from time to time. :O)
ReplyDeleteThere are thousands of artists on ebay which keeps the prices low. I have had more sales at Black Dog Salvage than at all galleries combined that I have been in. Galleries don't typically know how to sell from what I have seen and seem to get a thrill out of manipulating the artists then taking 50% of any sale that happens to take place through no fault of their own. Bad attitude, yes but I got it the hard way.
ReplyDeleteI think most bad attitudes are gotten the hard way. We earned them and we're keeping them! Too bad about ebay prices. But glad that Black Dog Salvage is working for you!
ReplyDeleteHi Gill, I'm glad you found my egg eating chickens post useful, I was very surprised when it worked (but pleased that I didn't have to kill any of them) and it sounds like it doesn't work for everyone, but worth a try, please let me know if it works for you. It looks like you have something interesting posts here too, so I'll have a look through. I love that chicken painting, you've really captured the chicken look when you wonder what they are really thinking about, and as you say, what they are planning! Cheers, Liz
ReplyDeleteThanks farmer_liz, I changed the feeding this morning and will see what results. They really like the corn and have been spoiled, the whole flock follows me up the hill when they think I am going to feed. We have lost most of my old egg layers to predators so I have been breeding in game fowl to where many of them can fly like a pheasant when alarmed. Egg laying may suffer with the breeding experiment though but then dead hens don't lay at all.
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