Buried Treasure.

For the past week i still haven't heard a word of my new chicken sadly. When is the chicken going to come? or if im ever going to get it. I have been waiting for a week now, or my grandma just forgot all about. I think I will give her a visit real soon. I miss observing my chickens, and ever since my folks cooked them it feel like something has been missing in my life, and its my chickens. 

From my previous blog, I have been observing my backyard as a substitute to my chickens which equals to X. (get it?) Well never mind. Recently I've been looking around my backyard and there's some dirt bumps near the house. These dirt bumps had a stench to it. From my past blogs, I mentioned a feline who is always at my porch and begging for food. Don't worry I feed the stray cat for the animal lovers out there. Field-notes 4/11

Cats are very intelligent animals, although they tend to look lazy and just sit around there actually not that bad I could quite say they are clean animals. Why clean animals? Well the dirt bump is actually the cat's doing. From my experience, I saw my grandpas cat named Rosey take a number two infront me.(gross!) After she's taken care of her business she covered up with dirt. I guess cats don't like smelling their own feces so they bury it. Here is a video showing a cat burying their waste. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ET5YTz1laWo It fascinates me that they bury their own waste instead of waiting for the owner to pick it up and to dispose of it properly. Watching that video made me realize that cats are clean but also independent. I can just imagine myself giving the stray cat a walk, and watching her bury it. (Saves me the trouble.)

The stray cat is intelligent, but one of the dirt bump wasn't completely covered so I saw the poop and smelled it as well, and I personally can say that it was sickening. The stray cat turned my backyard into a graveyard for her poop! (Poop zombies) Well I got to give the cat some slack, when you have to go you have to go. Field-notes 6/11

Although the cat isn't mine, the cats been accompanying me for about a couple of months now. I am proud to say that this stray cat has become my companion, and I finally named her, instead of calling her hobo cat for the past months. I named her Sapphire, because she possesses these really beautiful blue eyes that sparkle, and shows it off when she asks for food. I don't mind if she stays, she will always be welcome on my porch. 

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"Cat burying his poop." YouTube. Youtube, 6 May 2013. Web. 9 Nov. 2014.

Dark seed

Ever since my parents massacred my beloved chickens and eventually ate them, I've been surveying my backyard for something that will intrigue me. I still havn't given up on my chicken observing routine. Since my grandma has some chickens, I'll probably ask her very soon if I could borrow at least one of her chickens to observe. Hopefully she says yes, and this time im guarding that chicken from my chicken killing parents. 

After surveying my back yard I stumbled upon these baseball sized seeds, but a bit smaller. The seeds were black and there was a lot of them as if someone has gathered them in one spot. The seeds were in the middle of my backyard. I examined the seeds more and it has curvy lines that Mother Nature has engraved within in it. I looked around the area if I could find where these seeds originated from. I used my five senses, but I couldn't smell because I had a runny nose, I already felt the seed which was kind of rough, I didn't use taste because the seed looked old and dirty, I mostly relied on my eye sight for the moment. Field-note 10/30

There was a peach tree in my backyard, so I'm guessing thats where the seed originated, but I have never seen a peach seed that dark before. The seeds must of been there for a long time. I've researched on these peach seeds and what I found was pretty interesting, peach seeds if broken open to reveal the almond shape kernel within. That's actually what almonds are made of. For more facts about peach seeds visit this site, http://www.naturalnews.com/033123_laetrile_vitamin_b17.html 

Its crazy how one simple seed could be of fascinating yet complex. 

    

                                                                   Work cited

 Mike, Adam. "Amazing food facts: The seed of a peach contains an almond-like nut containing the anti-cancer medicine laetrile" naturalnews.com. N.p. n.d. Web. 2 Oct. 2014.