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Y’all, I’m over here DYING cuz Google suggested me this article about the crisis of backyard chicken keepers– which is that they love having chickens so much that they keep getting more, and then don’t know what to do with all the eggs.

Which I can see how this would be a problem, but it’s just so funny to me because they had interviewed this one guy who started off with 3 chickens, and then kept adding more and more, and eventually started donating the eggs to a local food bank, and at the end of the year when they wrote him a tax receipt, he discovered he’d donated over 400 dozen eggs.

Seriously, it was a whole article talking very seriously about how people are so into chickens that they just keep collecting them like pokemon and then have to “scramble” (their words not mine) to get rid of the eggs, because they weren’t even thinking of egg production, they just loved having chickens.

And while I may be over here laughing a bit too hard, honestly? Big Mood.

Crock Pot Recipes for Fall and Winter

I love cooking hearty dishes, and warm treats in the Fall and Winter, which is why I also love slow cooker recipes. So here is massive list of recipes that are great for this time of year!

Soups, Stews, and Entrées

Creamy Wild Rice and Turkey Soup

Loaded Baked Potato Soup

Red Lentil, Chickpea, and Tomato Soup with Smoked Paprika

Pasta Fagiola

Meatball Stew

Simplest Chicken and Dumplings

French Onion Soup

Cream Cheese Chicken Chili

Cheesy Vegetable Chowder

So Easy Coq au Vin

Sugar-Spiced Pork with Squash and Potatoes

Pasta with Eggplant Sauce

Pesto Chicken Sandwiches

Meatball Sandwiches

Chunky Pot Roast-Portobello Soup

Creamy Tortellini Soup

Chicken Fajitas 

Stuffed Green Pepper Soup

Spinach Lasagna 

Cabbage Rolls

BBQ Chicken

Pizza Stew and Biscuits 

German Potato Soup

Creamed Chicken and Corn Soup

Pot Roast Stew

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Fall Harvest Chowder

Chicken Cacciatore 

Beef Tenderloin

Tomato Basil Ravioli Soup

Apple Cider Pork Roast

Goulash

Creamy Italian Chicken and Rice

Apple Sage Pork Tenderloin 

Desserts and Sweet Treats

Gingerbread Pudding Cake

Pumpkin Pudding

Chocolate Lava Cake

Rocky Road Cake

Apple Dumplings

Turtle Monkey Bread

Rice Pudding

Almond Bark

Cinnamon Fudge

Pecan Pie Cobbler

Pumpkin Angel Food Cake with Caramel Sauce

Apple and Date Crunch

Tequila Pears

Candied Almonds

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Spiced Applesauce

Beverages

Peppermint Hot Chocolate

Chocolate Coffee

Vanilla Crème Brulee Latte

Caramel Apple Spice

Pumpkin Chai Tea

Autumn Brew

Spiced Pomegranate Tea

Hot Mint Malt 

Buttered Apple Cider

Snow White Cocoa

Pumpkin Latte

Hot Cranberry Apple Punch

Aztec Hot Chocolate

Bourbon Citrus Sipper

Horchata Latte

Chamomile Toddies

Breakfasts

Spinach and Cheese Frittata 

Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal

Hot Cocoa Oatmeal

Cheesy Breakfast Souffle 

Breakfast Casserole

German Pancakes

Sausage White Gravy

Cheesy Hash Browns

Cream of Wheat

Egg and Broccoli Casserole

Eggnog Cranberry Steel-Cut Oatmeal

Ham and Egg Casserole 

Pumpkin Oatmeal

Pumpkin Bread

Cinnamon Rolls

French Toast

The feminine urge to say “have you no compassion for my poor nerves” every time something goes wrong with my life

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

Pumpkin Spice Latte Ice Cream Square

I don’t care what anyone says. I will eat all the pumpkin spice, roll in all the crunchy leaves. I will prance my ass through a forest while drinking a latte wearing big boots and knit sweaters. And you can’t stop me.

Disability Justice Reading List

Hey everyone! Here’s a list of some interesting Disability Justice readings. Here’s a link to a Google Drive with all of these files, but I will also list them out here for easier finding. If you have any requests, let me know and I will try to find a pdf to add it to the list! I’ll update this post as I add more books and essays, as this was just what I could easily find tonight.

Intro to Disability Justice:

A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid

Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino

Access Intimacy by Mia Mingus

Medical Industrial Complex Infographic by Mia Mingus

Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva

Designing Collective Access: A Feminist Disability Theory of Universal Design 

Neurodiversity: Terms and Definitions by Nick Walker

Autism FAQ by Lydia X.Z. Brown

Psychiatry Critical/Abolitionist perspectives on Psychiatry:

Defining Mental Disability by Margaret Price

The Myth Of Mental Health by Kai Cheng Thom

Reframing Psychotherapy by Kai Cheng Thom

Harm Reducation Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Race and Madness by Nadia Kanani

Disability Incarcerated

Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Helping Your Friends Who Sometimes Want to Die Maybe Not Die by Carly Boyce

The Protest Psychosis by Johnathan M. Metzl

The Race of Hysteria by Laura Briggs

Miscellaneous: 

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer

Work In The Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework by Moya Bailey

Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic by Nirmala Ervelles

Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington Ch. 1 (If anyone can get the whole book please let me know!)

Fugitive Science by Britt Rusert

When I use a Harry Potter reference in class to help students understand a counseling concept and someone scoffs, I’m like

So pretty

Watercolor Paintings by Karolina Kijak

Part of Nature by Stuart McMillen