Hello my friends!
I finally have a few minutes to sit down and write a post so you can all know what I've been up to. The thread has been a bit slow lately and we need to liven things up.
Okay it's been a crazy busy couple of weeks here. DH2B has been in the fields(ah the joys of being a farmer) all of you please thank a farmer when you get the chance. He's been working long long long days to get the ground worked and started getting the crops in. They're almost done with field corn and mint meaning there is just seed corn and canning crops left. Many of his days in the last two weeks have been 14-16 hours straight through. One night he even worked until 4 in the morning when they had a piece of equipment break down. It's been crazy and everything at home has been falling on me.
It's a lot. Without a doubt. Add to that my mother got bitten by one of my Grandma's barn cats and it's become severely infected. The cat is 14 and has cancer so he was trying to be put in a crate to take to the vet to end his suffering. He of course had other ideas. Now he's on to us.
He also isn't up to date with his rabies vaccine so there is that as well. I spent two nights in the last week at the ER with my Mom. Not getting home let alone into bed until 5-5:30 am. So that has also been crazy. She was supposed to go yesterday too but I haven't spoken with her to find out if she made it. Mom absolutely doesn't want the rabies shots but I think she should get them considering we found a dead raccoon in the garage.
With the rain last Wednesday night, Thursday and Friday DH2B ended up having a long weekend. We planted apple trees and started nearly all of the garden. Yay! Unfortunately our starters blew away and we had to buy them, which is a major bummer.
I finally had the time to candle our current hatch last night. 31 eggs going strong. 1 questionable. 6 clears and 1 quitter. I'm in trouble. LoL the biggest problem is that I'm not certain I set the incubator countdown for the correct day. (Incubator says 11 days left but I think it may be more like 9) I'll need to do the math later.
Yesterday we did yard work and mowed and picked up sticks and such. The storms were pretty bad. Thankfully we didn't get hail damage like many of our neighbors but the wind blew over and tore apart a massive grill. I can't believe how much this thing was destroyed. Thankfully we were planning on scrapping it.
More later everyone I hope all is well.
and Illinois thread. 
