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Working from home again, it's been awhile since I've haven't had to go in for something whether it be a meeting or a field day. It feels so good to be home. I made some rose cedar soap, canned the last of the rhubarb (after scraping the last of the very very burnt sugar off the bottom of my pot), and now I'll get to go outside. The quail have been sized up to a bigger brooder now that they don't need heat anymore.

Plans for this week include sorting out hay (there's someone doing small squares in town, it looks like), cleaning out the chicken and quail barns and adding cages to the quail house, putting the sides on the woodshed, and figuring out the pig housing/field situation. I've also found a new ancona drake since mine seems to be shooting blanks, but he's a five hour drive away so that'll take logistics. I'm also going to pick up a pekin duck trio for some larger meat ducks that are hopefully a little less independent than the cayugas.

Bathtub Goose, with whom I have bonded really closely, isn't seeming well today. She was limping a little yesterday, so I gave her some nutritional yeast, but she's not walking much today. We'll see how it works when I get her outside.

The potatoes are flowering in dazzling array of colours and shapes. The piglets are fat and healthy. The americauna chicks are growing nicely. There are berries to pick and maybe canning to do.

It's ok.

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Working from home again, it's been awhile since I've haven't had to go in for something whether it be a meeting or a field day. It feels so good to be home. I made some rose cedar soap, canned the last of the rhubarb (after scraping the last of the very very burnt sugar off the bottom of my pot), and now I'll get to go outside. The quail have been sized up to a bigger brooder now that they don't need heat anymore.

Plans for this week include sorting out hay (there's someone doing small squares in town, it looks like), cleaning out the chicken and quail barns and adding cages to the quail house, putting the sides on the woodshed, and figuring out the pig housing/field situation. I've also found a new ancona drake since mine seems to be shooting blanks, but he's a five hour drive away so that'll take logistics. I'm also going to pick up a pekin duck trio for some larger meat ducks that are hopefully a little less independent than the cayugas.

Bathtub Goose, with whom I have bonded really closely, isn't seeming well today. She was limping a little yesterday, so I gave her some nutritional yeast, but she's not walking much today. We'll see how it works when I get her outside.

The potatoes are flowering in dazzling array of colours and shapes. The piglets are fat and healthy. The americauna chicks are growing nicely. There are berries to pick and maybe canning to do.

It's ok.