These girls are about 13 weeks old now, and all of them survived. I expected a couple of them to croak, but they all made it without too much trouble. Not bad for a bunch of chicks that were between 1 and seven days old when we got them. One of them did try to commit suicide (I have no idea how she wedged herself into that space), but even she recovered with no ill effects. They all seem happy a clams (or chickens) in their pen, and I guess they are happy. I think the other girls were happy too, but the learning curve for free-range chickens has to be fast and furious. On a selfish note, the young plantings are much healthier with no chickens pecking them, and the porches and patios are much cleaner without having a bunch of free-ranging chickens pooping all over everything. We should start getting some egg production around September/October. We will let you know.Nebbish -- Noun. a timid, meek, or ineffectual person. "The Tick tries to prod Arthur to work with him, even providing the nebbish with a bulletproof moth-like costume." Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe, August 24, 2017
Did You Know? "From what I read...it looks like Pa isn't anything like the nebbish Ma is always making him out to be." Sounds like poor Pa got a bum rap, at least according to Gilbert Millstein in his 1951 New York Times review of Arthur Kober's book of stories, Bella, Bella Kissed a Fella. Nebbish derives from the Yiddish nebekh, meaning "poor" or "unfortunate." As you might expect for a timid word like nebbish, the journey from Yiddish to English wasn't accomplished in a single bold leap of spelling and meaning. In its earliest English uses in the 1840s, it was spelled nebbich and used interjectionally as an expression of dismay.
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