ew, ew ew EW.
so sho and i went to gorditos burritos in greenwood, and it was so good. not quite the same as yum salty mol� at burrito boy, but different is good too, and anyway burrito boy doesn’t have spinach burritos! anyway it was a huge (yuge!) burrito and we both had leftovers, which we ate for second dinner the next night. yum happily munching away and then i took a bite that TASTED LIKE SEMI-SPOILED MEAT! very traumatic! i spit it out immediately and investigated it — i think it was pork or maybe beef? — and was disturbed to realize that it wasn’t rotting, that is just what meat tastes like. i wonder why i never noticed it before, when i ate it regularly. anyway i was also pleased to find that after that i don’t want to try it anymore!
(despite that, it was really good and i will definitely go back there.)
when i was at mom’s over winter break, i spent a lot of time doing nothing, which led to me sitting around planning how the house will look when i move into it. there will be an office and knitting/sewing room and maybe a library. and the biggest vegetable garden ever. she is going to move out in two years and i am going to try to work it out to move in there then. and grow corn and tomatoes and peas and cucumbers and lettuce and carrots. and other things. i should find out if i can have chickens …
other things i did in portland: fell off a curb and skinned my knee. yes, i am eight years old. saw that zombie movie and had nightmares about zombies and aliens. did not, surprisingly, want to shoot myself in the head to make my allergies stop. played with sweet stella puppy. stella looks kind of like this. she is the nicest friendliest best dog ever. everyone should adopt a greyhound!
otherwise, i mostly sat around and did nothing. sho was sick so we didn’t really do much. which was nice. i had enough of doing stuff at the end of last term, but at least it paid off — we got a 4.0 on the giant project! now i am finally convinced that i did not doom us by forgetting that page.
now i am strangely obsessed with cleaning and organizing and getting rid of stuff. it’s kind of fun. yay!
(song: “the el,” rhett miller)
Do you have to send an application to the Portland Chicken Commission (PCC)? Or would it be more of a council(PCC)? Or board(PCB)? Portland Poultry Symposium (PPS)?
Yes, yes! I loved Eternal Sunshine, too! I cried, for some reason. I guess I’m a movie crier.
i totally cried, too. partially because i, also, am a movie crier, but also because it is a very emotionally wrenching movie, i think. but so good.
Ruthlessly ignored! I shall sulk back to my corner with the profound sense of shame and guilt.
i was trying to figure out which one was my favorite. i think it’s portland poultry symposium. in any case i hope it’s one of those, ‘cos that would be awesome.
According to Title 13 of the Portland City Code, you can’t keep livestock within 50 feet of a residence, and you can’t keep roosters in the city at all. Sorry! :(
way to be a kill-joy.
Hey, I’m just the guy who did a little digging and is reporting what the ordinance says, I didn’t write the thing.
We could start a petition to get city councilors to change the anti-livestock code. We can form a coalition and call it “Portland Poultry League” or PPL for short.
Our slogan can be, “Stop Poultry Discrimination NOW!”
Then again, I think most of us don’t actually live in Portland. Oh, nevermind.
I prefer falsified ignorance.
but are chickens livestock??
13.05.005 Definitions.
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D. “Livestock” means animals including, but not limited to, fowl, horses, mules, burros, asses, cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, emu, ostriches, rabbits, swine, or other farm animals excluding dogs and cats.