Daily observations of my simple life.

It's one of those sparkling mornings. The view from my window is full of surrounding mountains, light and shadow, shiny greens and desert landscape. It was brisk and cool when I went out to feed. Carlos,Luchia and Lenny ,(peacock,peahen, and genuia fowl) were waiting at the chicken house for feed. Sage ran out to greet me and closed her eyes in contentment when I scratched and hugged her. All the animals fed I went back in for a cup of warm coffee and a slice of my pumpkin walnut bread. Couldn't help but ponder my own actions the night before. I try to keep up with the mail and bills as they come in, so I sat on my bed and wrote checks to Christian Childrens Fund, Children International, Wireless bill and then $30. for a book called "Profit from Slots" . Am I crazy? I have to laugh that I would be tempted to buy a book that promises to beat the slots. I'm not even a prolific gambler, I just go from time to time because it's close and it gives me a night out in crowds, limiting myself to $20 or $30 dollars. For the most part I break even but what is it in our nature that makes us want to come out with $1000. or $100,000? So, I rationalized it would be fun to try to see if it worked, it said it was guaranteed or money back and I might throw $30 away at the casino.

Foibels, foibels,---I couldn't find foibels in the dictionary but ran into folly and fool. ( foibels, meaning shortcomings ) Whatever, what a contradiction!!!!

Today, Frank and I will be working on the new chicken yard. I want to make it dog proof. No more savage attacks on my beautiful chickens.

Posted by: cactusandquail at 15:17 | link | comments (6)

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#1  17 January 2005 - 15:20

 

Foibles. I have many myself. Good luck with the new chickens!

InMyLife

#2  17 January 2005 - 15:33

 

Let us know how the book works, I used to rent videos made by a professional gambler. Now I check out the serial number on the front of the machine, look for numbers that mean something to you. Of course still havent hit the big one yet. Pumpkin walnut bread sounds good.

rustymadgal

#3  17 January 2005 - 15:58

 

Oh for sure, grin. I have watched tv shows that say the slots are random and the larger the amount you put in the greater the chance to win. My observation has been that when a machine is hot it's hot and when it's not, it's not. If you can get someone off a winning machine before it's played out you nearly always follow suite and win.
Serial Numbers? What's that, about? I have won a couple fair size jackpots. Both times on 10x machines. Once when I was taking my grandsons to dinner at one of the buffets, I dropped a couple of quarters in a machine as I walked by and won $250. Another time I was just playing slow and the machine was hot. Won two jackpots on the same machine amounting to $450. Paid for a fence I needed badly.

cactusandquail

#4  17 January 2005 - 17:14

 

guess you can't win if you don't play, but it seems sort of like Narnia. a sort of magic. it only happens, or you can only find it, when you least expect it.

limine

#5  18 January 2005 - 14:46

 

Narnia, that's a new word for me. I'll remember that. Like a magical moment.

cactusandquail

#6  21 January 2005 - 18:48

 

Chickens and dogs are not a good mix in general. However, I've trained my boy to leave them alone for the most part by feeding him treats in the chicken yard--so he's not lookings for chicken crunchies. . .while he's sitting as I let the hens out all around him. He's on a leash of course ;-}. I think he quite likes his little ladies

ChefNeal

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