Today was move day. Since the debacle with the hay guy has been resolved and the hay has been bailed we have access to the rest of the pastures at long last. Renee uses a portable electric fence that uses plastic posts that have a large metal stake molded into the bottom, you just put it where you want it and push it in with your foot and then there are clips along the side that hold the wire. Long story short tonight because I'm dead tired. We moved the fence and then moved the chicken and duck coups, get this, if you let the chickens and the ducks out of their coups and then move the coup, then that night they will go back to the old position looking for their home even though the coup is only 100 feet from the old location, so we have to move the coups with the animals inside which was kind of tricky. Then move all the hoses for the automatic watering in each coup and set up the new fence. It doesn't sound like much but it took us a couple of hours to get it done. Then we do the old standby activity, the activity that you just finished but need to do again today and then again tomorrow, we clean the eggs. Eggs from the weekend, from last week when we were busy getting ready for the weekend, eggs from who knows when ...... eggs out my butt. If you haven't noticed, I get tired of this part of farm life. Today around noon Renee leaves to deliver eggs and broilers to people and restaurants on her email list, while she is gone I get to do whaaaaaaat??? You guessed it. I get my mp3 player out of the truck and download some financial news interviews and reports and listen to them while cleaning eggs, it works pretty good .... gives my mind something to do other than feel the aching in my back and legs. Around dusk I do the evening feeding and collect the chicken eggs that have been laid today and then back to you know what ....
I don't know what time it was when Renee gets back (see how well that mp3 player idea is working?) but she cooks up some dinner including a really nice broccoli and couliflower dish with some kind of white sauce, all in a large casserole dish and then baked. I compliment her 2 or 3 times during dinner and she is very gracious, but then when we are finished she asks me to do the dishes because she has a lot to do before Thanksgiving. See how much I compliment her cooking next time .... if it's that good then yes yes yes on the compliments and I'll be glad to do the dishes. Maybe I should get a copy of "The Joy of Cooking", then I could just point to the page and ask her, "can you make that?" ..... I'll clean your eggs really really good if you make it!!
Think it will work?
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