My advice to you, is to NOT try to come between a chicken and their meal worms. There is just no sense in it. Why would you want to do that. Chickens do not ask for much, but just don't try and deprive them of their meal worms. Or their shredded carrots. Or any other treat you might consider giving them. For the most part, chickens live a quiet life, and they have, as a general rule, very little to look forward to. But, near the end of the day, when I go out to check on them and give them a little something extra, they are all over it like a hobo on a ham sandwich. Stay out of the way! Let me be clear about this; it rained here for about eleven seconds this morning. By the time I knew it was raining, it had quit. I had to go to Liberty Hill earlier this morning, and there was evidence of some rain on the roads not far from us, but only eleven seconds worth here on the edge of nowhere. BUT, it was not 100 degrees to day, only 99.Alembic -- Noun. 1. an apparatus used in distillation. 2. something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation. "Historic wooden mash turns...and copper alembics provide touchstones for the process of making whiskey." Patricia Harris and David Lyon, The Boston Globe, March 15, 2015
Did You Know? The alembic is a kind of still that has been used since the third century BCE (Before Common Era) and is used today in the production of cognac. In ancient times, this apparatus was called al-anbiq, a word that means "the still" in Arabic and can be traced to ambix, meaning "spouted cup" or "cap of a still" in Greek. When the apparatus found its way into medieval European laboratories, texts first transformed the Arabic word into Medieval Latin as alembicum, and some also dropped the initial a. That change led to limbeck, a standard variant still in use today.
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