Windy Acres
Spring is in the Air!!
Mother Nature was really teasing me today. It was an absolutly gorgeous day! It got up to 76 degrees with no wind! After I got home from town, Andy and I spent the whole afternoon outside. Poor Darrell was inside asleep, after working all night and fighting a cold.Andy and I cleaned out the shed to get it ready for the chicks. We emptied and clean up a small stock tank that we are going to use as our brooder. I found a bulb for the brooder light and rigged it up with a chain and bungy cord so it will hang over the brooder and be adjustable as the chicks grow. I also dug the brooder cover out of the pole barn and cleaned it up. I found that termintes were eating the bottom board so I sprayed it down with the water hose and doused it with kerosene. After it dries I will move it into the shed. Yesterday I bought a new feeder and waterer for the new babies. After I got that all done, I drove out to the pasture and loaded up the old banty house that the pigs were living in when they were little. I brought it back up to the house and hosed it out. I think we can move the chicks into it after they outgrow the brooder if the full size coop is not finished yet.
To top off our activities, Andy and I surveyed the garden and cleaned up some dying asperagus plants. I think I'm going to till them up. Since the chickens are going to take up part of the garden space, I hate to waste a whole section on asperagus that aren't doing so well anyway.
By then the sun was setting and it was starting to get cool. Andy and I grilled steaks that had been marinating all day. They were soooo good. Darrell got up just long enough to eat supper and go outside and see Andy's "Farm" that he has been building. He's back in bed now. I hope he makes it to work tomorrow.
So overall it was a good day. I used to think autumn was my favorite season but spring is starting to win out. Especially after the cold cold winter we have had.
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