I'm Exhausted! 😩

[DrFyl]

I read BYC threads and posts all evening. Kept falling asleep as I sat on the sofa, and finally dragged myself off to bed at midnight. All night I worked herding chickens, feeding chickens, breeding chickens, cleaning coops, washing chickens, doctoring chickens, chasing off hawks, checking my heat lamps --- all the danged night.
Checked on the chicks this a.m. Now, sitting down to a late breakfast -- ️️️️️️️️️️️️

 

[sourland]

Haven't you been warned about the addictive nature of BYC ?

 

[DrFyl]

Haven't you been warned about the addictive nature of BYC ?

I have, now.

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

So you had a late night? BYC got you up all night

 

[DrFyl]

Yeppers... (y-a-w-n)
Gonna be a long day...
Heading out for chores and need to turn over two grassy "flower" beds... putting down pea gravel, at last. Hate weeding.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[DrFyl]

Exactly. Happens more often, lately, it seems.Breaking new ground for garden, and no rototiller. The old-fashioned way. Wish the chickies could do it.

 

[NC_Quail]

Exactly. Happens more often, lately, it seems.Breaking new ground for garden, and no rototiller. The old-fashioned way. Wish the chickies could do it.

I had to do the same thing recently…and our soil is so hard and rocky that I had to use a mattock. Still have blisters on my hands

 

[DrFyl]

I had to do the same thing recently…and our soil is so hard and rocky that I had to use a mattock. Still have blisters on my hands

Oh, ouch. Do you wear gloves? I still get blisters with gloves, but usually not as bad. I have a planting hoe that can get down pretty deeply, but I still have to comb through and pull out the Bermuda roots and break up the dirt clumps. I hate gardening as I feel inadequate and tend to kill more plants than I grow. If it doesn't bark, whine, mew, whinny, cluck, blat, moo, or chirp I forget its there.
I have an old World Book Encyclopedia from the 1980s, and figured I'd read about how to break new ground for a garden and that there would be an easier, more efficient way than what I was doing. HA! They must not have had rototillers in the 80s!

 

[NC_Quail]

Oh, ouch. Do you wear gloves? I still get blisters with gloves, but usually not as bad. I have a planting hoe that can get down pretty deeply, but I still have to comb through and pull out the Bermuda roots and break up the dirt clumps. I hate gardening as I feel inadequate and tend to kill more plants than I grow. If it doesn't bark, whine, mew, whinny, cluck, blat, moo, or chirp I forget its there.
I have an old World Book Encyclopedia from the 1980s, and figured I'd read about how to break new ground for a garden and that there would be an easier, more efficient way than what I was doing. HA! They must not have had rototillers in the 80s!

Yes, I normally wear gloves and have no problem with blisters but this time I was stubborn. “I don’t need gloves, I’m no wimp! What kind of farmer wears gloves?“. Yeah, right . Now I know what gloves are for. Did I also forget to mention that I’m not a farmer anyway?

I can relate with killing plants, although it is mostly because of pests. The area we live in is pretty suburban and there is nothing to keep deer and groundhogs at bay. Netting does not deter them, they tear right through it. Will be trying hardware cloth this year, hopefully that does it.