<p>Oooo, you drove me out of lurking again! I never knew that I had such a compulsion to take an online test to confirm how dorky I am.</p>
<p>I was excited to see that I had won the Millennial Test until I thought it through and realized that I was the best of the worst.</p>
<p>So then I took the referenced Whiteness Test. I scored 15 points which supposedly makes me not white. Thing is, I am so white I make the undead look tanned. I think it is really testing urban/fancy suburban people. When you have to drive 45 minutes to buy sushi, not too many folks will have exposure to it. Especially when you could go to an all you can eat buffet for half the price and not have to wonder if your food is cooked.</p>
<p>However, for the people I do know who would score well comes an idea for an additional question for that quiz. Do they keep backyard poultry or wish they could? This is a hot topic in our yoga doing/sushieating/coffee drinking/passive aggressive intellectual acquaintances. And bonus points for knowing when it is a good idea to substitute a duck egg for a chicken egg in a cake recipe.</p>
<p>Two things about keeping chickens in the yard
You can’t take vacations
well you CAN take vacations after the raccoons & weasels eat all of them.</p>
<p>Or one more thing you CAN wear skinny jeans if you’re over 40-ish but you have to wear them with a tunic top that comes to your knees.</p>
<p>mule mom!!!
I am doing my mule dance in giddy delight.
I will go see the site specific second book if it list what count as most white for “Minnesota folks with live mules” </p>
<p>smarty dear
you are a hipster as long as you can button and zip the pants all the way under the teepee.
as my lovely pencil thin friend (40 plus years after SAIC) does and look still fabulous.
wait, could you two be old classmate or somethin’?</p>
<p>twomules, dear, I totally agree with you about the whiteness test. I got a really super low score too. But I have tons of friends who would no doubt pass with flying colors. Some of those friends don’t have backyard chickens but ‘house’ chickens… so I laugh whenever I see that carpet cleaning commercial on the television that references house chickens and alpacas or whatever it is. I got some green, blue and purple eggs from a classmate of my daughter’s parents who have some chickens – but they’re exotic chickens from exotic places in the world that give strange colored eggs… just in time for Easter, I guess. The eggs tasted perfectly normal though. I did give some thought to perhaps having our own chickens here in our yard in NY – but it really seems that the dogs are enough work. Right now I’m battling D1 over what a grown up would do. Seems that her papillion pee’d on her bed – on her goosedown comforter – and I’m telling her it needs to go to the laundromat to get washed and dried and that she needs to do it – I’m not going to spend four hours at the laundromat feeding the dryer quarters… and she’s resisting saying she’ll just wash it herself here at home because she ‘wants to do art’. No way am I backing down, but why does it have to be so hard to convince her to be an adult about things? Our washer/dryer here at home cannot handle a goose down comforter – it needs to go to the laundromat. Dang kid. She still has two weeks of dirty laundry in her suitcase that she hasn’t gotten around to unpacking from our trip to Europe.<br>
I give up. She can sleep with a smelly comforter. Gross.</p>
<p>Is a “house” chicken what I’m thinking?
Somehow the image of house chicken and carpeting is a bit much.
I would forgive a Papillon for anything, even peeing on a comforter…they are way too cute.</p>
<p>That website carries chicken saddles – to protect your poor hen from an over amorous rooster (!) and poultry panties too!</p>
<p>sometimes I’m just astonished. On the other hand, my SIL shares her home with pot bellied pigs and now has over 80 pigs – her husband stays home to take care of all the animals. Sign them up for animal hoarders! If there’s some item like poultry panties for chickens and some corresponding item for piggies (though when I visited I didn’t notice any such thing) you can be sure she’d have it. I vividly recall going to the bathroom and being startled by the rather large piggie that was sleeping among the towels on the floor – didn’t notice him at first in the gloom… yikes!</p>
<p>TwoMules: Going to Minn April 9th. When my H’s cousin came to visit us in Florida, she wore shorts the whole time and we had jeans and jackets on. I think it’s what you’re used to. OTH, D was born in Maine and raised in Florida from age 3, and she has never once complained about the cold in Minn.</p>
<p>G-mom: 80 pigs? Think I’d rather have my rotting carcasses. At least they are outside!!</p>
<p>Of course all 80 pigs are not in the house. They ‘rotate’ them and have favored pigs that get ‘house’ status. They live in a rural area near San Diego that has been ravaged by two major fires in the last several years. Whenever there’s a disaster like that, they seem to accumulate more abandoned animals. They have started a nonprofit organization, the pig sanctuary, to get a tax break on taking care of all these unwanted animals (though if it were me they’d all be bacon long ago). They spay and neuter all the pigs they get, but as far as I can tell, they’ve never been able to find a home for any of the animals that they have had ‘donated’. SIL is so busy with her animals that when my MIL broke her pelvis and was in the hospital, SIL could not get away to come and sit with her Mom for a while… that duty fell to the long-suffering wife of my DH’s brother. We two are the ‘outlaws’, lol. SIL with the pigs is a bit PETA supporter. Several years ago she tried to brainwash my kids… didn’t go over so well. I was all over her for daring to suggest that they limit their already restricted diet even further - -she got the message and backed off. It turns out that she was diagnosed last year with celiac disease too. So she’s a gluten free vegan.<br>
She has a real job (has to to support those pets) as a NICU physician’s assistant. It is always interesting to visit her place…kind of an adventure.
<a href=“http://piglover.org/[/url]”>http://piglover.org/</a></p>
<p>You know I have to say those are some of the cutest little faces ever. I might be tempted to let them stay in the house myself. After seeing those little mugs I may swear off bacon myself! Actually made me laugh out loud!</p>
<p>I’m still laughing and I’m not even looking at the photos. You know if you could promise I would look as happy as those animals, I would move there in a NY minute and I wouldn’t even care if I couldn’t be a “house” pig.</p>
<p>This thread is fantastic
I am going to sit down one day and make a list of all of the topics that have been touched upon here.
The pigs should be #1.</p>