It’s that time of year when we have a zillion things to do – shopping, cooking, tidying for guests, preparing for travel… not to mention work and school and mundane tasks like laundry… I’m currently working on some serious FAQs and posts, about worms, bloody pecking spats, and the like, but really, who wants to focus on that right now? Tomorrow I’ll be cooking latkes for 18, and later in the week I’ll be making homemade horse treats for all 13 horses at the stable (Shhh! don’t tell them. It’s a surprise!)
So, I’ve decided to do a light-hearted series to bring us through the New Years.
At the turn of the last century, before tobacco was evil, cigarette companies put beautifully lithographed cards into their packets, rather like baseball cards in today’s packages of gum. To encourage collecting and sales, they did series. I have the complete set of poultry cards. Let’s go through the alphabet! Today we’ll begin with the letter A.
The best bit of these cards are the poems on the back.
I’ve never owned an Ancona hen. Have you? Tell me about her.
I’m going to love these! What a fun find.
Can’t wait till we get to X. What do they do about that!
It’ll be Xylophone, as usual.
Hah! It won’t. The X is my favorite. You’ll have to wait and see!
That is wonderful….and you have the whole set! Do you know what years they were offered? I too am going to love the series.
What a great series. I am going to get a better handle on the different breeds. Glad to hear you cook for animals. I have just finished dog biscuits for my family’s pooches. They smelled heavenly in the oven and tasted pretty good, but my cat refused to do the quality control taste test! I even mixed some crumbs with his favorite crunchies and he ate the crunchies and left the dog biscuit.
“A series of 25” Ummmm… :D
This is wonderful! Looking forward to seeing more!