Pretty Is
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My friend, Mike Folkerth, the man who wrote The Biggest Lie Ever Believed, just sent me a picture of his turkeys and said they have a face only a mother could love. Wrong Mike! I think turkeys are beautiful. Not the turkeys that run the banking system but the other kind. The kind that will feed my family this year. I posted a picture of our new turkeys. I also added a picture of the calves whose mamma provides our family with milk. Then there’s the Creamery. I write about it so much but I never put up a picture before. And what would this album be without a picture of Taproot Commons Farmstand. I pick up our milk here and we sell our honey and jams and such here too.
A lot of what we do and where we live has beauty in our eyes only. I can see people looking at us covered with mud ( a pig escaped a few nights ago and I had to scrape the mud off my clothes before I could put them in the wash) and thinking we live a messy, smelly life. We do. But the beauty is there in the mud and the muck. It’s real and it keeps my loved ones fed and sheltered. Taproot isn’t a supermarket. The poultry lives in make-shift pens in a drafty old barn. My food eats and poops and makes a lot of noise sometimes. Pretty is a pretty does and my life does pretty well.
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May 18, 2012 at 11:16 am
Nice to see what you talk about, Kathy!
May 18, 2012 at 11:28 am
Kathy, are those ducklings Muskovy ones? I have at least 3 nests full of eggs here now. And 2 of them are being set on. I also have a chicken on a dozen eggs. And one of the rabbits had kits yesterday. So it must be spring. My turkeys are not wanting to set. If I leave the eggs they will eat them. So I plan on bringing the incubator down from the shed and dusting it off. Well I need to go plant some more seeds. I have been moving mule poop that is 5 years old for the herb beds and gardens. Now to plant seeds today and this evenng planting herbs that dh will pick up from a gal for me.
May 18, 2012 at 12:02 pm
No. They’re Anconas. They’re the ducks that Carol Deppe recommends.
May 18, 2012 at 3:10 pm
I raise the Muscovy because they eat mosquitoes and with the creek it really helps. Early in the mornings they are down in the field by the creek looking for bugs. And they are nice big ducks as well. Plus they do not quack. They do make a small noise if they are upset. But with so many neighbors now it is nice that they are pretty quiet. My turkey gobbler makes enough noise.
May 18, 2012 at 7:15 pm
I think your pictures are lovely!!! Such a beautiful place you live at!!!!
May 21, 2012 at 6:43 pm
So lets assume there is some goods or necessities that you could stock up on and sell “greedily” after the collapse and make a profit. But as you point out that would be “greedy” so instead everyone decides to be nice and does not stock up on this good or necessity and thus is a good person and not a greedy person. But after the collapse people need this good or necessity and none is available!!! So they do without it and if it was really impoertant like medicien perhaps they die. But cheer up at least no one was greedy. Isn’t that wonderful?
May 21, 2012 at 7:01 pm
I’m assuming you meant to respond to my post, Saturday, where I wrote about not stocking up to make money. I think you missed my point. I’m not suggesting that you don’t stock up. Only that doing so to make a profit off something that is potentially life saving for a neighbor might be a choice you should think carefully about.
May 22, 2012 at 9:13 am
so wonderful to have you, and would like to do another one in later summer? interested?
May 22, 2012 at 8:56 pm
I didn’t miss your point but I did miss the correct post, sorry for that confusion. My point is that virtually everything we get is provided to us because someone somewhere makes a profit. The alternative is not that we shouldn’t be “greedy” and simply give the stuff away but that the stuff we need would disappear from the shelves. I think it is a mistake to label every effort to succeed as “greed”. Worst case, I want someone to have thought ahead and bought a bunch of toilet paper or bullets etc. so that I can still acquire them even at a higher price.
You will notice that our government will prosecute a gas station owner if they raise the price of gas in an emergency situation. I think they are wrong and their approach is counter productive. By raising the price the station owner reduces the chances that someone or a group will horde or buy it all and this will allow for other customers to still buy gas even at a higher price. It is counter productive because if I owned a station I would close it during the emergency rather then sell the gas for a few pennies profit knowing I wouldn’t be able to buy any for days or weeks.
So the point is that the natural system of supply and demand controlling prices insures that products will remain available during shortages. It also insures that the producers of these products will produce more which increases supplies and lowers prices.
By the way I enjoy your blog, I like hearing about the things you do and I realize you are not into argueing and confrontation so I apoligize for stepping over the line and having said all that I have said I want you and others to know I enjoy people with your attitude and beliefs as friends and would probably avoid the greedy people in the world. I’m not really sure what that all says about me though.
May 22, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Thank you. I think it says that your are complicated and thoughtful, like most of us.