My water system is a food-grade 55 gallon drum on it's side on an elevated platform (~2 feet) with a Little Giant poultry fount plumbed into the lower bung with PVC pipe. I only need to fill it ~ once every week to 10 days for 25 layers. Every time I fill it I dose it with bleach at the rate of...
The actual opening of gifts is referred to as "The Festival of Greed". As soon as all are opened, all of the torn wrapping paper is piled into a large mound in the center of the living room. The kids crawl into the pile of paper and we take the "Photo of Greed". Then all of the paper is removed...
My girls are not allowed to go outside (the coop / run) to play until their chores are done (eggs are laid). They're usually all done by mid afternoon. That way I don't have to hunt for eggs... my dogs are MUCH more efficient at finding them than I am. They go back inside by themselves as soon...