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A Fun Weekend with Football and Friends in Greeley

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This weekend was pretty fun. We didn’t have any major plans so we slept in, hung out, and then saw friends on both Saturday and Sunday evenings.

Saturday night we went out with our friends Leslie and Al to Cattleman’s restaurant in Greeley. I generally don’t eat much red meat, but I had a little. We used to love their soup and salad bar, so were disappointed that they had done away with it. It was fun to catch up with them.


Out to dinner with friends at Cattlemans in Greeley

Then on Sunday, of course, we had the Super Bowl. I don’t really care too much about the game, but it is a good excuse to get together with friends. I think last year we had dinner with Nick and Miri on SuperBowl Sunday and that was a good time as well. This year, we went over to our friends Matt and Jamie’s house. But before we left, I decided to get dressed up (I warned you that all I need is an excuse) as a football player, and since we have a chicken named Football, well…see for yourself 🙂


Me and Football


Not quite a “Pig Skin” more like “Chicken Feathers” 🙂

 

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Joel Salatin on Backyard Hens

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I brought Henrietta in the other night to put Vaseline on her poor chapped comb and Britton snapped this photo of us

I saw this article about Joel Salatin and I thought it was great. He talks about how farming could and should be, and that it really would be the easier way to do it had it not been for the chemical and food industry pushes. I especially liked the comment he made about backyard chickens when he said:

“If you want to get brutally honest, in my opinion we shouldn’t even have egg sales in America! Every restaurant and every home should have two or three chickens. I mean, you got a parakeet, why not have two chickens? You get eggs instead of a parrot keeping you awake at night. In a perfect world, that’s how it would be.”

Salatin’s views came into focus when author Michal Pollan included him in his book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma.  I am also really excited to go pick up Michal Pollan’s new book Food Rules (this link says it’s only $5 is that right?).

The Greeley City Council did move the chicken ordinance on to the February 16th schedule, so plan on coming down and helping us at 6:30pm City Council Chambers (next to Lincoln Library).

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Greeley Chickens back in Play

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Well the city council has decided to put it back on the agenda for Feb 16 where they will hear public input and vote.

We are on a chicken rollercoaster.

We are getting very indifferent on the issue. Either situation isn’t completely desireable. The current code isn’t good but the proposed code is almost worse because of all the micromanagement and bureaucracy.

Reminds me of a saying. “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'”

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