A wall clock and a new drama
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381760)
Rockingham, Australia
January 21, 2023 5:24pm CST
My Lotter JB_Girl (@sol cee) wrote recently about wall clocks and I was reminded of the one here. You can read her discussion here: How old is your wall clock? / myLot. (I hope the link works)
Since we moved 18 months ago, we haven’t bothered with a wall clock but there is a large and pretty one in our house-sit. It looks olde-worlde but I’m sure it isn’t antique.
We had a bit of a drama yesterday. I’ve been posting about the chickens. When I went over in the evening to check them, another egg had hatched! The days have been so warm I guess it didn’t need a hen sitting on it for those last few hours.
It was very, very wobbly and didn’t look a bit well. I brought it to the house,
encouraged it to have a sip of water from the end of a spoon and tucked it up in a cloth. I fully expected it to be dead this morning but it’s chirping away although still not very mobile. I’ll leave the owners to make a decision on its future.
In the photo, you can see more of the house plants and a view from the kitchen window. I should have tidied up a bit before taking the photo but I was going to crop it. But then I thought you'd like to see the plants and the view.
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@xFiacre (14782)
• Ireland
21 Jan 23
@JudyEv Isn't this the problem with animals - they need us, or at least we think they do, and we always want to interfere rather than let nature take its course. When you mentioned a new drama I thought you were going to tell us about some new Australian TV drama. I have just realised that most of the TV we watch is Australian drama of one sort or another - the Slap, Five bedrooms, A Place to Call Home, Secret Life of Us, Newsreader etc. We're very promiscuous in our TV watching.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
22 Jan 23
Here is the link you tried to post:
HEY! I had a clock just like that one only mine didn't have the colored numbers around it! Mine originally came in a steel-framed round coffee table that we still have stored in our garage. We took the clock out and hung it on the wall because our friends' kids couldn't leave it alone... Little hands fit into the small gap between the glass table top and the top of the clock too easily. (I had to remove the glass table top to set the clock and replace the battery.) It was just easier to take it out and hang it. When my niece moved into a new home about the time we had to move, she asked what I was going to do with the clock so I gave it to her.
I was looking at my wall clock in the living room and thought about the time I bought it six years ago. It was more than the price of ordinary wall clocks but...
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jan 23
I'm sorry my link was so hopeless. I forgot to go back and edit it but luckily @DaddyEvil added it.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
22 Jan 23
I hope the chick makes it. Plants everywhere! Thanks for the update.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
22 Jan 23
That's a nice clock. Hope the chick will be all right.
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@popciclecold (40215)
• United States
22 Jan 23
You and Vince having a time with baby chicks, the clock seems large, but very nice. Its amazing, warm there, raining here again. Let us know the fate of the wobbly chick.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Jan 23
I've read that you're supposed to let newly hatched birds to struggle on their own or they won't thrive.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jan 23
I like that clock.
Just put food and water close to the chick. Hopefully it will eat and get stronger
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
21 Jan 23
I hope that chick will be all right, Interesting clock to me it looks like a roulette wheel almost, I hope you enjoy your Sunday,
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Jan 23
I have my doubts about the chicken but it was well enough that I was comfortable leaving it for the owners to decide its fate. I left it on a cloth in a shoe-box. Then I draped another soft cloth over one corner so it could snuggle under and put a cake cooler on top so it couldn't escape.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
22 Jan 23
I like the image of the plant hugging the wall clock. It is tidy enough to be real, not staged.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jan 23
These climbing plants are in several of the rooms and trailing over mirrors or windows.
@allknowing (153544)
• India
23 Jan 23
@JudyEv Once a kite (eagle) dropped a chicken in our compound. Probably it slipped from its beak. The beak of the chicken went crooked and it could not eat on its own. Mother fed it every day
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jan 23
@allknowing Poor thing. I chased a crow once that was carrying off a chicken. 
@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
25 Jan 23
@JudyEv Is he still going do you know?
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jan 23
@RebeccasFarm Yes, he is with the other chicks now so he will hopefully be okay now.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
22 Jan 23
I’ve never seen a clock quite like that. I hope the baby chick thrives.
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@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jan 23
I wasn't sure if I liked the clock or not but it grew on me! lol
