Monthly Archives: October 2008

Chickens and Eggs Article Printed

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Another of the blogs I wrote for the Greeley Tribune was printed today. I am an official blogger for the Healthy Habits blog on their website, and occassionally, they will publish a blog into hard copy. It is fun to see your work in print. This particular one is based on our experience with our chickens, that I have written about here as well. The only downside to getting printed is when the editing is done by someone else. They took out probably the most important paragraph:

“<p>Overall, chickens are a fun addition to any sustainable-living adventure, and I would recommend them whole-heartedly. These eggs have health-benefits that go above regular eggs as well. Not only are you lowering the number of confined animals (sometimes over 30,000 chickens in one hangar never see the light of day or step on the ground), but eggs from chickens that are allowed to roam freely in the yard have a higher omega 3 ratio than those who are fed only grains. They also usually have larger and more brightly-colored yolks which indicate high-vitamin levels. And contrary to popular belief they do not increase blood cholesterol levels in a healthy diet.”


I wish they would have put this picture in to illustrate it as well. Store-bought egg left, Home-grown egg, right

I have a feeling it has something to do with the fact that we have so many confined-animal feeding operations (CAFOs) all over our county…hmmm

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Greeley Featured in Rolling Stone Magazine

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Greeley was featured in the latest Rolling Stone magazine. It is not very flattering, but unfortunately very true. We are mainly known (outside of Greeley) for the awful smell of the cow feedlots and slaughterhouses and the immigrant raid on those who work there. While this is home to us (we were both born here), it will be nice to move to Puerto Rico and see a different way of life.
The overall article however is about change and the likely possibility of Colorado going from a red state to a blue state and what that would mean in terms of our congressional representatives. It also lays it out in terms of changing from brewing racism to tolerance.

Here is the link and an excerpt:

“Driving down a rainy Colorado highway in October, I can see the misty white outline of the Rockies out one window and the arid brown flatlands of the Great Plains out the other. Overlaying it all is the faint but unmistakable stench of cattle.

In Greeley, as in most of America, those two groups (parties) are defined by their racial attitudes — fault lines that these days are most visible in the battle over immigration. Immigrants comprise the bulk of the workforce at the local meat-processing plant owned by Swift and Co. The plant, which contributes to the town’s heavy cape of death-shit smell, was raided in December 2006 by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who arrested 265 workers and drove a deep wedge into the local political scene.”

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Trip to Puerto Rico Planned

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It is my turn to see the property! We have a trip planned to visit in January which will be nice. Two and a half weeks.


Looking Out from the Main House

I spoke to Alwilda the other day and she said they started picking coffee. That day alone they had picked 1,000 lbs and she said there was a lot more to go. When she started talking about the papaya, pineapples, breadfruit, starfruit , etc…I knew we needed to visit.

In late January it will be super cold here so it will make for a good vacation time. I need to find a deal on a rental car so if anyone knows of anything please comment. I’d kind of like to rent a Jeep so I can explore a bit more than we did when we had just a normal car. Plus the river at the property would be fun to cross. I doubt a neon would make it..lol.

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Halloween Party or The Beach Bum and Bohemian

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One of my friends from work threw a Halloween Party/Belly Dancing Performance at a dance studio in Eaton. Britton and I went for a little while. It was fun to watch the dancing and the costume contest. I went as Joni Mitchell/70’s Bohemian in one of my mom’s old shirts and an old hat and Britton went as a Beach Bum in Puerto Rico in the required crazy fro, that you can also see on the About Us Page.


Beach Bum and Bohemian


Getting into Character



Joni (Cassie), Geisha (Lorena) and Palin (Kelly) (Palin =both Funniest and Scariest Costume)


Pam, Cassie and Marjorie


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