I've seen ghetto's my dear lady, and that is no ghetto!! Trust me! A little paint and you've got it made! And I would love to go digging around in your junk pile any day of the week!!
Is that a set of roof trusses I see lurking under all of the partial sheets and pallets and such!?!? Girl! What are you doing? Get those buggers out and start building yourself a BIIIIG old coop!!!
Daaang! What's the span of those! Looks to be anywhere from 10 to 12 feet at least! My eyesight ain't what it used to be, but it looks to me like you have every bit of 20 or more of those! Set those 24 or even 16 inches on center and you're going to have a very respectable sized coop! Indeed! Indeed! Indeed!!
Come on Kathy! You're killing me over here!! Build SOMETHING with those!
Well, I said I doubted that Abby would make it to sundown, and I was right. God grant you peace my sweet little friend. You will be sorely missed. I checked on her a little before 2:00 this afternoon. She was still with us at that time. I went in to lay down for a bit to get rid of one of those head aches [Cyn, I know you know what I mean] and when I got up about an hour later, she was already gone.
Dear Denny had gone in to check on her about a half hour after I had and says that she gave one last sigh as he was petting her in the nest box, and then was gone. She's with Gimpy and Lacey now, and all of my other wonderful ladies that have gone before her. She was laid to rest in the little grave yard out in the woods. Denny said that FussyButt, Clarissa, Brewenna and even Chief followed him to the grave site and watched over him as he laid her to rest.
A final farewell to their sister? Perhaps. These old girls of mine are a very tight knit group. It's Chief's presence that puzzles me the most. I know he really liked Abby. She was the first one of the old girls to approach him last spring. And while he was growing up, she seemed to be snuggled up to him at night more often than not.
Somehow, these so called "dumb animals" know so much more than they are given credit for by humans. Pfft! More like "dumb humans" for thinking we're the only ones capable of emotion, or can perceive the loss of a loved one. But here I'm preaching to the choir, aren't I?
*sigh* OK, she's gone. I have to pull myself together now and move forward...............
I got some really cute pictures of Maggie and the girls tonight as they were getting ready for bed.
Boy! That little girl leaves nothing to chance Kathy! She and her girls were the very first ones into the coop tonight, I'm sure because she wanted to get the best pick of sleeping quarters for her and the girls! She finally settled on nest box #1 south. I'll have Denny keep an eye on where she roosts each night. If it looks like she's going to keep with that one I think I'm going to make some small changes to it to better accommodate her and the twins. Things are a bit tight in there even now, and we all know how much growing these girls have to do yet. I swear, I don't think she'll let them go even when she goes broody again. They're their own little flock right now!
I'll try to get the pictures posted later tonight.
Thanks for letting me rattle on about my Abby folks.
It means the world to me. Thank you!
