Hi everyone.
My boss covered for me today so I could get some last minute things done before I have surgery next week. 8 days away. I'm looking forward to it and terrified of it at the same time. Word has got out to my regulars, who are mostly older. Their new favorite past time and topic of conversation is telling me their experiences with rotator cuff surgery. It is worse then going down the rabbit hole of a google search. One of my favorites looked me in the eye and told me she would rather give birth unmedicated 5 times in a row then have that surgery again. She's also had hip and knee surgery to boot. Hahaha.....help. I managed to get my pre-op bloodwork in, stocked up on some new icepacks which will apparently be my best friends for the next few weeks and got the shirts the nurse told me to get. She told me to go buy a pack of t-shirts 2 sizes too big for me because for the first week or so I will no be allowed to put my arm through the affected sides shirt sleeve. I also picked up a couple new pairs of pajama bottoms so I can live in them the first 2 weeks.
Now for a chicken update. We had a incident a week and a half ago that has stripped my chickens of any free range time for the foreseeable future. Dad and Rosie were out front finishing up mowing the lawn about 4. They heard a commotion and ran out back and something had gotten Goose. It has now hit in broad daylight and at night. The first week was rough, they were not happy but have settled into coop life. Rosie has employed lots of treats inside the coop and has even hung up a cabbage for them which they are devouring. Poor Homer was orphaned though and he was not ready to leave his momma. Rosie has taken him under her wing for me and he buddied up with the silkie chicks. I combined the silkies with their parents Sunday and I put Homer in with them. It went great. No picking on them and both Davy and Barbosa immediately took to calling them over to show them the food. Heaven forbid you make one of the chicks panic by trying to pet them. Barbosa is on you, do NOT touch those babies. Last night when I did my nightly check he had them all on the roost and he was in the middle of them. I hate that they are no longer allowed to free range, but, now I'm thinking fox. No one has seen anything come into the yard so it is a complete mystery.
