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ProfVkipedia@msvki· 4d

This just in: the 2 NewGirlz and the 3 OldGirlz are a blended flock! (Only took 17 days)

5 small dinosaurs (yes, chooks are dinosaur cousins) move as one flock to range across the permaculture savannah (my garden) eating grubs, bugs, and invasive species.

Their names are Lacey, Gym, Betty, Tina, and Queenie…LGBTQ… so really the flock is a ‘pride’ of chickens!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 5d

Jr. Officer Lt. Duckduck Goose is the only security guard who showed up for work in this raging storm!

Junior Officer Lieutenant Duckduck Goose patrolling the pollinator meadow during a level 3 storm warning event.
10/10 for commitment to the job!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 6d

Thus and similar (see AltText for details)

Spot the ScotsStealth 3M N95: protects the wearer from clod emissions, numpties, airborne diseases like Covid, dust and Oort clouds.

[Many thanks to @TomCox for AltText inspiration]

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 8d

Blending new/old small flocks, needed a BiggestGirl to stop aggressive comb biting due to size difference: Meet the Assh@t 2000™️

Spray bottle full of potable water sitting on stump in coop looks like a Big Chicken: meet The Assh@t 2000™️!

Use it to aim a sudden burst (stream of water) at the back of the neck of the aggressor during biting incident; used when blending new and old flocks without an elder or rooster.

Respect the biggest Girl!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 15d

And chooks; we need chooks to eat the grubs, ticks and fleas in the gardens

It’s the morning shift, and Orange-bottomed Betty, light Lacey, and brown Gym are hard at work on organic, nontoxic garden pest control. Good Girlz!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 16d

One of the New Girlz laid a magical double yolker! Note the lovely orange-yellow yolks of ‘GardenCrew’ (free-range) chooks, surrounded by the gel layer of a truly fresh egg. (See alt text for more info)

Almost as rare as hen’s teeth, the magical double-yolker egg (seen here in a white bowl) portends good fortune…such as healthy political sea-changes, or an upcoming excellent sourdough (pictured nearby, sliced on workbench) french toast breakfast!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 17d

If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses

Author’s twin ‘Tipsy’ standing woodenly at OMAH Art Gallery, wearing camera-confusing sweater coat with a phone-protective off pocket, hooded mask face protector, and eye-reader repellant red sunglasses.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 21d

Blackwell’s ordered arrived!

Overhead close-up of three soon-to-be-banned books on a Blackwell’s cardboard shipping box on a wooden chair, somewhere in Canada:
EWSY and Help The Witch by Tom Cox, Namaste MotherFuckers by Cally Beaton!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· 29d

Today’s fashionable Man from Plaid N95!

Man From Plaid 3M N95 mask for use when casually walking around in southern Ontario extreme wildfire smoke.
Yes, you can use Sharpies to decorate a mask. Tests show it doesn’t affect its function.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Jul 14

Under a heat dome? Feeling weak, dizzy, faint? Try this remedy (see Alt text):

Under a heat dome? Feeling weak, dizzy, faint? Try this remedy:

On a Green Witch’s table with parasite-free Tomatoes in the background sits an unassuming 250mL jar labeled HeatStroke Rescue.

The jar contains Emergen-C, plain gelatin powder, baking soda in 3:1:1 proportion. Shake to incorporate.

Mix 1 rounded teaspoon of mix into a cup of water. Stir ‘til the fizz abates, then drink. Feel better!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Jul 8

Because what goes around comes around, if you see this, share a circle, a disk, something round. Spheres from the Snow King’s Castle on Great Slave Lake, Yellowknife

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Jun 24

We had 45C (120F) in central Ontario, Canada in May of this year. Too hot too soon! Shade saviours include my big Blue Spruce (hotel for the birds), Grandmother Oak, wee mighty Rowan, Wealthy Apple tree, and all the Cedar trees shading the ChickInn coop.

This picture offers ‘cool comfort’ during your heatwave:
Fancy Chick-Inn coop is nestled under the snow-covered cedars in winter. Centre front shows access ladder to check for eggs through roost doors decorated with Chook cutouts. To the right, the orange fence is a partial shot of the Girlz’ fenced-in play yard.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· May 21

Jark-arses, exactly. I enjoy the jeezly joyful variety of signage slapped up on inclusive single-use washrooms in the wild. It’s a facility; use it, leave it cleaner than you found it, and wash your dang mitts 🙌

Inclusive Single-use Washroom sign shows variety of dress and pants-wearing people, person using a wheelchair, baby, alien, two-headed person, warrior.
Text says: Whatever. Just wash your hands.
Good policy; just like your bathroom at home!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· May 20

Our Gym (Jim; see AltText) sends well wishes and encouragement to eat your grub(s)

Our athletic Gym (dark reddish-brown chook), seen here relaxing at the posh Lawn’n’Garden Spa with pals brown Betty, Jim-coloured Lacey, and white Rocky.
Message from the Girlz: Get well soon, or die trying, Jim!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· May 17

Magic carpet, obv

ProfVkipedia@msvki· May 15

Whew, glad it’s traceable to jet lag, possibly exacerbated by previous chemotherapy. You’re an international treasure. I’m sending an emotional support dog (little blind Kingston) from my corner of the internet!

Kingston, a small, 17 year old grey and butterscotch terrier-type dog is lounging on a puffy pillow on a wood floor near the piano.

Kingston appears to be smiling with scrunched up eyes. His eyes had cancer and were removed when he was one year old.

To learn new houses, he jauntily walks around playing bumper cars with his nose, and occasionally echolocates. We dog sit Kingston when his people are out of town.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· May 11

The Garden Gang leaning on warm gravel near the shop, eating green grass and bugs

ProfVkipedia@msvki· May 7

Garden Girlz (Rocky, Betty, Gym, and Lacey) eating grubs and worms in the permaculture beds

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Apr 28

A Snoezelen room makes this crazy stressful life a bit easier to navigate. Beau approves!

Red curtains darken a Snoezelen room space. Beau is curled up on a Mexican-blanket-covered lounge chair, with a rosemary and fern plant stand to his left, carved chair to his right, and a footstool in front. Mr. Beau has better self-control and interaction skills as a result of spending time in this relaxed, immersive environment. He hardly ever bites the hand that feeds him anymore.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Apr 15

‘Em chooks are the best Lawn&Garden Crew evah!

Two brown, one orange, and one white Chicken form the post-winter clean up crew, working on new grass emerging from melting snowbank, getting a jump on lawn and garden pest eradication. Call 800-GOT- CHIX for a quote!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Apr 13

💰 🫧💥Stock market crash/bubble pop incoming… When the music stops, do NOT accept AUSTERITY. Your dog wouldn’t accept giving her whole bag of treats to the biggest dog on the block, hoping to get one treat back, maybe. That’s fascism. Invest in people and public services; and animals, and plants!

Philosophical little brown poodle in a bay window, accompanied by fig, geraniums, lime tree, oxalis and succulents, thinking about the caring and sharing democratic socialist economy (replaces predatory capitalism). C’est Beau!

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Apr 11

Rocky demonstrates ‘brave defiance/holding space’, a resistance technique (see alt text)

Black-laced white Wyandotte ‘Rocky’ has not laid an egg since surviving the Great Weasel Incursion of ‘24.

She eats invasive bugs in the garden, turns the earth to destroy invasive weeds, and uses her PTSD hyper-vigilance to alert the new flock to any predators.

She continues her defiant resistance; she turns her back when confronted by the master’s tools of oppression (BBQ)

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Apr 1

Very worn original magic manual paperback cover of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Tom Robbins

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Mar 29

Where are you living that has brilliant 3x4 ‘fit better on the fridge shelf’ egg cartons? In Ontario, Canada, eggs are sold in 2x6, 3x6, or large flats of 36. Even my counter catcher for home-grown eggs is 2x6.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Mar 14

Enjoy this low-cal, gluten-free stylized pie-shaped ice-castle window to celebrate π Day !

Window cut-out view of the ice slides at Snow King’s Castle, Yellowknife, NWT, Canada

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Mar 10

🚨PSA🚨 Instantly turn your CPAP into an air purifier: 1. Cut a filter-sized chunk of N95 mask 2. Replace your CPAP air intake particulate filter with a superior anti-viral filter! You can get at least 3 filters out of a standard mask. #CPAP #Covid #AntiViral

Pictured on a wooden counter, a pink N95 mask is missing two rectangles, which have been cut out for use as air-intake filters for a CPAP machine.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Mar 7

Rocky approves!

Last summer: Rocky, a white Wyandotte Rock chook enjoys Spa Day dust bath bowl in a permaculture bed, bergamot in foreground, violet leaves, mint and oregano background

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Feb 27

Four zen chooks: Brown Betty, Gym, and Lacey below, White Rocky at the top of the ramp. What are they planning?

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Feb 21

Please enjoy these fine art KN95s I created for my bus-person elderly mum. (Note: Previous particle spray tests on Sharpie-painted and unpainted masks showed that if the Sharpie art masks are allowed to cure at least 48 hours, they are just as effective as plain masks.)

Top left mask is stylized cursive ‘WOW’ vines, with flowers, leaves and raindrops.
Middle mask is a giraffe with a bluebird perched on her right ear.
Bottom mask is a wide-eyed kitteh.

Covid is not over, Long Covid is real, measles and RSV are rampant, and the next plague is only a matter of time.

ProfVkipedia@msvki· Jan 26

Hello from the central Ontario snowbelt!