Fri-yay! Yep, it’s my favorite, favorite day! (I chose that little graphic because I thought the creature looked a bit like a chicken… now I’m second guessing.) Long week is over and it’s time to spend some days outside! Well, not tonight, but hopefully starting tomorrow for me. Sue did spend a great deal of her morning outside today; a new apparatus arrived and she spent some quality time with it today. Care to guess? I can give you a couple of hints… it was purchased to fill the gap left by the high weed mower that, literally, blew up, as well as the hole that the 30 year old lawn mower left when it promptly died after she had it worked on and tuned up. Give up??? Continue reading
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22 Friday Mar 2019
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Quick words for today. Sue worked her fingers to the bone today in the coop. Cleaning it up and taking down the wood that she had previously worked so hard to put up. She was afraid that by putting up the wood panels inside the coop then stuffing them full of straw for insulation, we inadvertently provided a protected mice mansion. Kind of like rent control apartments for mice… they had the perks, but didn’t have to put up with any of 
the danger. Danger being hunted by the chickens. I asked if there were lots of mice and she said they were running all over – the chickens were picking them off as they scurried about. A concern about having mice in the walls was that we’d have another snake take up residence – and Sue didn’t want to go through that again. Hoping that eliminating the mice will cut down on that possibility. So the photos here are of the newly naked walls. Of course, this also means we won’t be finding chickens trying to lay eggs inside the walls any more. Always a good thing to keep your walls free of chickens. 🙂 
It’s Monday – we often use today’s post to talk about what went on over the weekend. Let’s hold to that tradition, today. You know, there just aren’t that many cool graphics out there for “weekend wind-up”, we’ll just see if we can’t remedy that sometime in the near future. On with the post… 
Guess what, guess what, guess what??? We had some great visitors last night! Our friends, Ron and Kathy, brought their sweet nieces for a visit. They are visiting from out of state, over spring break – I think? They can correct me if they read it :). Jill and Heidi are their names. Very sweet, incredibly intelligent young women (thanks for liking our page ladies!). Ron and Kathy brought them over to visit our little farm. We tried to entertain, but there’s not a lot to do. 
I find it interesting that sometimes a thought will be running round and round in my head and then a friend or family member will bring up the exact same thing. Happens with Sue and I a lot – probably because we live together, happens with Mom a great deal too, and often with my admin at work. Now, I find the connection is still there with friends back home. Case in point: when I was growing up, we had a retired Navy Chaplain in our church, Rev. Ted Herman, who never needed a microphone when he took the pulpit. I guess all those years preaching on the deck of ships at sea just gave his voice resonance. At the end of his services, as his pastoral blessing, he would intone a special prayer, the tenor of which had been rattling round in my head a great deal lately, but I could only recall a few specific words, “this troublous life…” and then vague ideas surrounding that sentiment. I think it had been in my mind so much lately because of – you guessed it – the horrendous winds we’ve been struck with. THEN, today I had a message from our friend Tracy, back home, asking about this exact same prayer. She was trying to remember it, but could only think of “grant us safe lodging… and peace at last”. So I just gave in and finally googled the few words I remembered with the addition of “Prayer” and found it. It’s called the “Prayer of Blessed John Henry Newman”. I’ve put a photo of it above. It also came to mind today because of some lodging issues we have of our own right now. Well, chicken lodging anyway. 
We feed a heck of a lot of different animals here. I don’t mean chickens and ducks and geese – I mean those free loaders we didn’t intend to raise. Wild birds of all sorts, mice, gophers, and other little creatures we don’t see; some, I’m sure, we don’t even really want to know about. We are an open air farm, so to speak, so some of this is to be expected. Over the weekend, we had two funny run-in’s with thieves and scoundrels. 
Yes, yes, yes. I know we talk about the wind here a great deal. I supposed that’s because it is a big deal. Today we actually had wind warnings through 8 p.m. Our top speed in the last hour was 50 mph. The thing is, with that type of wind – it gets really difficult to do anything outside. Sue was hoping to get a head start on the weed whacking today, but the winds were blowing her over! The chickens have gotten somewhat used to the winds, and go outside to eat and drink, but they are also content to stay indoors. Did you hear about the warnings going out a few weeks ago back east? The Meteorologists were 
Here we are… Wednesday’s blog post appearing on a Thursday. Thanks for hanging in and waiting for this amazing update! It’s actually been rather quiet for a while around here. Which, in many ways, is a good thing. While the weather has been rather nice and warm this week, the last two days the winds have been blowing in some clouds from somewhere – but there is no rain predicted. So – we’ll just see what the future holds over the next couple of days. 
Hey guys! Thanks for tuning in for a rather boring update. I guess I shouldn’t say “boring”, maybe just prosaic. Nothing really super, duper exciting happened… but we made headway on our list! Saturday started off nice and calm and warm – so we thought we’d head outside and take care of some tasks. Wondering how we did? Read on. 