Mussels

I got mussels from the grocery store today :) They were $1.79 a pound (I'm not sure what the cost in Ontario, but it seems cheap to me!). I have actually never had mussels before, but I am very excited to give them a try. I found the recipe below on Pinterest. I am going to make it tomorrow. Hopefully it turns out ok!

The above recipe is suppose to be a traditional Nova Scotia dish. I'll let you know how it turns out!

What a Week

Well it's Thursday ... I have had a pretty crappy week.

For the last three days I have been feeling unwell, sort of flu-ish, but not quite the flu. I'm feeling slightly better today, but still not 100%.

I have just had a crap week, just one bad thing after another. Things breaking, rude people etc etc.

This week, I've had a ton and a half of rude emails, some of them were so rude they made me cry. I dealt with a horrible rude aggressive woman on Facebook who hated me because I "sell nude photos". She had me in tears too. What nasty people. I just don't understand why some people go out of their way to be mean to others. I just don't get it. Obviously, they never heard of the "if you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all".

I wish I wasn't so sensitive :(

On a good note, I haven't lost any more hens since the weekend's loss. Whatever killed my sweet hen on Saturday seems to have moved on, thanks the Gods for that!

I've got an hour of offline work to do today and than I'm gonna eat some "special" cookies, make some art and forget the world. Sometimes its the best you can do

Have a great day all! Hugs and love!

The Good and the Bad

Happy weekend all!

My weekend has been both good and bad.

Friday, I officially announced that the Happy Hippie Haven was open for business as a pet rescue. Three hours later, I had someone in need contact me. At the time, they had two foundling kittens under four weeks old. Sadly, by the time they got here with the kittens, the one has already passed away.

So, this is Dingus.

Dingus is almost four weeks old. Sadly his mom and all his siblings died. He's a pretty healthy little guy and I guarantee he will live There will be no dying on my watch!! He's a fireball of a kitten and is ready to take on the world! He enjoyed spending some time outside yesterday. I watched him extra careful as he's so small, he's prey.

The bad of the weekend is that my very fav hen, Little Lennon was murdered. My poor little sweetheart was found beheaded and gutted in the woods near the house. My cat Mo has a serious puncture wound on his head from a tooth. He fought whatever killed Little Lennon. My heart is broken. I adored that sweet little hen so much. I could actually ride my bicycle with her in my arms. She followed me everywhere and can running the moment I called her name. She was the tamest gentlest hen I've ever had, and I only had her two months. The poor little sweetheart didn't even get a chance to lay an egg :(

We believe that the murderer was a stout or fisher (which are weasel type animals). It was not a fox or a larger predator as they would of carried away the dead body. My other two adult cats were not home yesterday (They were out and about adventuring). They returned home last night and this morning. The brother cats Mo and Jo will kill it if it comes back around today. The two of them took out a Fisher when we lived in Coe Hill, Ontario. (Fishers normally kill cats, but Mo and Jo are tamed wild cats and not cats to mess with, especially when they are together)

Here's a couple of other nice photos I took yesterday

This is Dexter. The kitten I took in two weeks ago. He's about 4 months old. He's on lock down in the house today as he could be killed by a stout/fisher.

Mama Muscovy duck spreading her wings, enjoying the pond.

And one more pic of Dingus. He's sitting on my son's feet :)

Hugs and love!

Helping and Caring

I think it's important to care. I think it's important to try to spread love and to try to help where we can. I think its important to do some "charity" work during the year.

I do my "charity" work in several ways; I do several free graphic design jobs during the year for charities and/or new small businesses; I usually throw an annual "Naughty Nymph Charity Party where we raise money for a sexual assault survivors center; and most important (at least in my books!) I run a pet rescue.

I love animals and it breaks my heart what they sometimes have to go through due to us humans. I have done pet rescue almost twenty years. Today, on social media, I publically announced that the "Happy Hippie Haven", the business I run, was officially open to accepting surrenders. Within four hours, I have my first rescue, a 3-4 week old kitten.

He's a cutie! His name is Skunk. He'll be available for adoption in about 5 weeks.

Happy Autumn Equinox!

It was the Autumn Equinox yesterday. Us Pagans also call it Mabon. The Autumn Equinox is when night and day are equal in length. It is the turning point from the light half of the year to the dark half of the year

At Mabon, us Pagans say good-bye to our main God (we call him many names, but this time of year he is most often called the Corn King or the Sun God). Our God dies with the harvest. He dies as the sun moves away from us. Happily he is reborn at Yule :)

We see the year as an ever ending circle of life and death. During the year we see our Gods born, age and die. Their lives correspond with the seasons, and their deaths bring about the harvest. They sacrifice for us to live.

So, happy Mabon friends! Happy Autumn Equinox! May your harvest be bountiful!

Wally, the Rooster

This is Walter or Wally. Wally is a Silkie Chickens.

Silkies are one of the gentlest breeds of chickens. Silkies are considered a "bantam' breed (which means they are small). male Silkies only weigh around 4 pounds. Silkies are obviously not meat bird, nor are they fantastic layers ( Silkie hens lay around 3-4 small eggs weekly). Silkies are pets, not livestock. Their gentle calm disposition makes them very popular with backyard chicken owners.

Silkie Chickens have black skin and bones, and blue earlobes. They also have five toes (instead of the normal four toes most chicken's have. The breed originated in China, but is now popular throughout most of the world.

I have never had a Silkie chicken before. They are not tough enough nor do they lay well enough for what i want. However, with a rooster, I wanted as gentle, calm and quiet as possible, so the Silkie was the perfect breed. Wally fits the bill perfectly :)

Truck and Rooster

Hi! Hope everyone had a great week!

My week was great! I got a lot accomplished. I had some new Pagan friends over on Thursday for a full moon Ritual and meditation, a got a new (used) pick-up truck, got a rooster, and got a shit load of work done.

The truck I purchased from a neighbour for only $400. It has some rust, needs a new rocker panel and has a front alignment issue. It's a "property" vehicle. I plan on getting or making a plow for it so I can use it to plow the driveway.

This is my new rooster! His name is Wally. He is a "Silkie" rooster. I've had chickens for seven years now, but this is my first rooster. I was very nervous about the noise and possible aggression issues; however, Silkies are the very gentlest breed of chicken and Wally is a pretty mellow guy. I don't think there will be aggression problems with him. He does crow in the morning, but out in the coop, I thankfully cannot hear him in the house :)

I'm taking the weekend off from dances. With it being such a busy week I'm feeling a little sick and run down today. Looking forward to a nice quiet weekend. 

Hugs and love!