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Mindful Chickens 9/15/18 & The Scattered Schedule of Retirement
September 15, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about:

ONE: Being Cheap (cheep, cheep).

TWO: Being thoughtful about how choices affect our community and our earth.

Mindful Chickens in September 9/8/2018
September 9, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about:

  1. Being Cheap (cheep, cheep).
  2. Being thoughtful about how choices affect our community and our earth.

3.  A chicken whose name was Chanticleer
Clucked in iambic pentameter
It sat on a shelf, reading Song of Myself
And laid eggs with a perfect diameter.

Mindful Chickens 9/1/2018 Merle Haggard edition
September 1, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about three things.

  1. Being Cheap (cheep, cheep).
  2. Being thoughtful about how choices affect our community and our earth.
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud5SbZ6XtTw

 

Stuff we did (and didn’t do) this past week:

Len found this on the internet. Of course.
Mindful Chickens - 8/25/2018
August 25, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about three things.

Mashable.com
Mindful Chickens (eight-eighteen-eighteen)
August 18, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about three things.

Mindful Chickens- Xpensive Milk & Cheap Capri's 7/11/2018
July 11, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about TWO things.

  1. Being Cheap (cheep, cheep).
  2. Being thoughtful about how choices affect our community and our earth.

ONE – I’ve mentioned this before but in light of the news that Walmart is squeezing out MORE American dairy farmers, I am going to say it again.

Mindful Chickens a Month Later
June 4, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

(I just like the bison joke...) 

It’s been a while since I wrote a Mindful Chicken. 

Mindful Chickens are (for people who don’t know why I call them this) about TWO things.

  1. Being Cheap (cheep, cheep).
  2. Being thoughtful about how choices affect our community and our earth.

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Mindful Chickens - Chicago Edition
April 25, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful? Thinking about what we do around here to be responsible to the world and to ourselves.

Chicken? Cheep, Cheep, Cheap!

 You may have noticed I haven’t posted in a while. There’s been a lot going on – including this pleasure.  Len and I went to Chicago for several days to care for our granddaughter while our daughter and son-in-law went out of town.

Mindful Chickens on an Icy Night
April 14, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

My church has been working for months to organize their fund-raising auction that was supposed to be TONIGHT. But instead we are in the middle of the massive spring storm that is scrubbing the nation from Oklahoma to I don’t know where next. The wind is howling; rain is sleeting into snow over a glaze of ice.

Two Chickens and a 3-Legged Lamb
April 2, 2018
Posted by Mary Beth

Mindful Chickens? We are frugal so that our retirement savings will last as long as we do. At the same time we try to consume responsibly so that our choices have the least negative impact on our fellow humans and on our earth and its creatures.  Cheep, Cheap!

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