Well, even with all this bother, life does go on. I have piddled around doing little tasks which please me. Hung two "Chicken Xing" signs, one on the back fence kinda visible from one half of the circular driveway and the other on the street light pole ON my property, very visible from the other half of the driveway. Take THAT, people! Chickens are crossing here!
Set up and FINALLY planted a Deluxe Topsy Turvy TomatoTree. Four tomato plants, and two types of basil. Set up the sprinkler to wave completely across a wide swath of the terraced front yard, including the terrace where the apple tree is growing.
Talked three pullets "home" through the gap under the back fence when they couldn't find where they exited the yard.
Named a few more of the younger chickens.
Charged and installed the LiveSnap baby monitor system; there are two cameras in the coop feeding video to a handheld monitor which sits and is charged in a small stand. Sound and video, day and night. Works very well! Only local, so I can't watch from anyplace not on the property.
Talked the very last, late pullet back through the fence and watched fondly as she ran across the yard in the dusk to scoot through the open pop door. It closed not five minutes later.
Made some toast and buttered it, then spread some homemade peach jam given to me by my broker this afternoon, which she said was
an exchange for the dozen eggs I brought her. However, it was sitting on the dining room table where we sat and chatted for a couple hours, and she hadn't known I was bringing her eggs.
There's been a deer skeleton on the side of the road by the small lake owned by the broker and her husband. In the last couple of days,
there's been a fresh deer carcass which was obviously struck by a car on the OTHER side of the road. Directly below her house and yard. So I teased her about the "puffy" deer which I noticed was gone today. "Yes," she said, "she used to eat all my roses."
Now that I live up here, I have started feeling just as inured to the death of deer on the roadway. Gosh, a doe and her fawns, or a buck, sure is pretty standing in a field, or alongside the road, but they're HAZARDS up here in the mountains. My contractor recommended I get a deer whistle installed on my car. "They're not expensive, so you're not out much if they don't really work. But I believe they do."
Remembered to drag the garbage can down the road to the collection of neighbors' trash containers. Only the second time I've remembered to do it so it will be emptied on Monday morning.
My new washer and dryer are fantastic!
Mostly, today, I watched chickens and the pair of geese. They're exploring the property. A parade of pullets, roosters, and geese made its way across the veranda, from one end to the other, starting from side with the shallow steps and ending with jumps down the "high" end off the steeper steps. Hi, how ya doing? Nice day for a stroll, huh? Glad you could make it, hope you enjoyed the visit.
The geese don't like pecking order tussles, or the roosters mounting the hens. They break up such activities by rushing at the combatants or mounted hens, honking and flapping their wings.
Yah, a simple, enjoyable day. It will be so much more comfortable when I have my goods and furniture up here, too.
