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Malvina moulted all of a sudden: one day her cage was absolutely full of feathers, but the only way she looked different was that her tail had dropped off. That was about ten days ago, and now she's laying (today, too, yay! because nothing else is).
I'm pretty much wrecked right now- I had to search out and capture every freaking towel we own, which was... neither easy nor pleasant, and neiter was it complete. I did four loads today, and will have to do at least two tomorrow; all of the worn-out towels I use for bovine OB emergencies were mixed in with the good towels- mostly because my daughter likes thin towels to use on her hair, and all of those are washed in hot water and plenty of bleach until they disappear entirely, so they're plenty thin. There's still six towels on the line, but somebody else gets to bring them in: as soon as I put the individual meatloafs in the oven I am clocking out. We have coleslaw, and The Daughter can make her awful instant garlic mashed potatoes herself.
(So of course I got up and made the little meatloafs and put them in the oven and wandered around for a while; I started writing this about 6:15)
I have girls molting around here too. At least they aren't completely bald. It's good to know that I wasn't the only one to get a load of laundry on the line today. The load didn't get very dry. I had to put it in the dryer for a bit. At least the towels will be soft.
I ended up with twenty-three towels washed and on the lines at once, and they got mostly dry, only not under the clothespins or where they were shaded. Fifteen minutes at high heat instead of forty is a lot of electricity saved.
This is the worst time of year for drying laundry, or for solar uptake in the house, because the leaves are still on all the trees. After they drop, I need to open windows to keep the house temp below 80F- a great thing, nice lot of air exchange, what with all the animals in the house.
We had an other mobile home before this one- a two bedroom, and we had a boy and a girl. It was set strictly E-W on the long side, and had the biggest windows facing east: a big problem at least three or four times every winter, on NE winds. When we bought this one I was thinking about solar uptake from the beginning, so most of the bigger windows face SSW and pick up maximum sun from November- February. The smaller, NNE-facing windows also have the only intact seals, so they're pretty good insulators, but I still have three layers of window coverings on the ones on either side of my bed!
Had a fright this evening. Was in the bathroom putting towels away when I heard the coyotes going crazy; ran outside with my big maglight and there were a bunch of them- there were six in the litter, and they're still together- heading toward the hill out in the middle of the biggest pasture. Probably came across the road and up the lane then around too close to the subdivision and set the neighbor's dogs barking. There's 17 acres of scotch broom and blackberries across the road where they have some cover- then there's three acres of hazelnuts and serviceberry on my SW corner, under the hill, where they spend most of their time. Tomorrow is one of the days they empty the dumpsters at the apartments; we've seen them over there when there's a garbage overflow the night before pick-up (which there almost always is).
We need a LGD or a big nasty coyote-hating llama.
