Today it was cleaning up all the off cuts from around the building site, relocating the Littles outside and general cleaning of the trailer... but yes there was quite a bit of cow scratching going on as well. There are far less cockerels to chase for a little while, as I’m hoping for at least a few more weeks before this batch discovers they can fly out of the tractor at feeding time!
I was taking out the garbage, and all the ladies were in the barn (which was a little odd, I’m thinking either Sammy put them there, or they went in on their own to hide). They heard the door of the trailer and came chasing after me because the thought of “maybe treats?” is too much for any chicken to resist. I was walking towards the burn pile and had just tossed the bag on and turned around to see 4 chickens running straight at me! They went through a flock of little junko birds which exploded into flight, and bam! In swooped a tiny hawk of some sort, a little smaller than Sammy. It proceeded to chase the junkos into a rosebush then flew off into the nearby trees and underbrush. Free ranging was cut very short and I grabbed the girls two at a time and back into the barn they went! Everyone is ok, and I’m more rattled than the chickens, I think. Sammy was the last one to get tossed in, because he was busy mocking Roostie, and I figured of the 6 free range chickens he would have the best shot defending himself.
I’m not sure if the mic is still working, but the speakers are working again, and the other functions (like my web browser for BYC! I was worried for a bit there) I have to love the bag of rice trick for 5 hours... even though I was going into tech withdrawals, but for saving the phone? it’s worth it! Andrew is off to Saltspring for work tomorrow, then cutting two days here, and back to there for work on Thursday, leaving me to guide the new building Inspector to the site (this will be inspector #4
) and deal with any issues that may arise 
I’m really hoping there are none, because I NEED to get the concrete poured before there’s no way the cement truck can get here in Mud Season. 
Fingers crossed for the cement pour.Hi @townchicks and welcome!very glad to have you here and wow... that’s a whole lot of catchup reading! And explains the couple times I noticed I had 70+ new notifications
You all know me so well here!
Speaking of flying out of tractors... I didn’t think to get a photo, but last night we had two escapees, one of Mr Eyebrows new lasses decided she wanted back into the old meat tractor, and well you know how I’ve been meaning to fix that tarp? Now it’s a priority. One of Mr Marans new girls also got out, and was perched on the outside rafter of Mr Eyebrows tractor. So after I caught escapee #1, I look over and had to call Andrew out to help with the relocation of escapee #2. Now Mr Marans has 7 Ladies, and Mr Eyebrows has 9... but whatever keeps everyone happy I suppose.
I expect it will be a busy month for me, with Chickens, maybe cows, and the build starting to ramp up, so I may not be on as often as I like, but I’ll try to keep everyone up to date and not fall too far behind on all the other threads... I expect I’m going to have a lot of catchup reading myself, too!
In other news, we had our first Hawk “attack” today.
Then this evening I dropped my phone in the sink while washing dishes
#4?!leaving me to guide the new building Inspector to the site (this will be inspector #4
). Now he is the department head, so I get to meet #4 “Josh” on Thursday. I am actually quite adept at dealing with bureaucracy and these middle management people, but thanks to a technicality preventing Andrew and I from being the general contractor/“owner builders”, we’re stuck with FIL having complete control of the build and being the one these people are supposed to communicate with. 
