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*Plant fava beans
Cut 2x4s for indoor plant shelf
Bring in lights from storage
Take out jars, meat grinder, sausage stuffer(?), extra slow cooker, canner, and boxes of bottles to storage
Unload chicken feed into trailer or far chicken shed
Empty garbage out of trailer into feed bags and put in truck
Take out household garbage and put in truck
*Plant Mission Mountain Sunrise, Taiga X, and X Carbon plus maybe some extra peppers, some lettuce, and new potatoes
*Check arrival date for cat food
Prep breakfast and lunch for tomorrow
*Hang sheets on the line
*Feed animals
*Water animals
Cycle the pressure tank
Change downstairs lightbulbs
Taste and de-seed remaining squash
Block birds from main garden
Plant elderberry cuttings
*Plant apple seeds
Package corn seed and send to T and J
Package tomato seed and send to SoD
Pick up crow garbage
Make more duck nesting spots
Get out and clean incubator for chicken, duck, or goose eggs (def chickens)
Put screws into the laundry room wall for dairy crates for seed/laundry storage
Empty out old laundry basket
Tighten clothesline
*Test clay
Clean chimney
Wash floors
*Empty litter boxes
Fix dryer vent
Explore creating pig gate

Edit: *Done
Make a project list spreadsheet with costs (replace pressure tank, linoleum flooring for downstairs, re-cover old greenhouse, trampoline or aerial silks cost, replace mattress, stain siding vs replace it, aspen tree removal, all-season gravelling of the dips to the pig area and back area, cutting and creating the north gate to he property, re-covering the woodshed, might as well look into replacing the white shed's foundation while I'm at it, upstairs space-efficient office).

Moments that are perfect

I've been brushing Avallu some every evening, just taking out a basketball-sized amount of hair or so every night. He's starting to blow his coat, gently and not spectacularly. He's very happy when I go find him every night and bring him in for brushing.

Tonight I took off his collar and brushed under it. He was super super happy, tilting his neck to help me get the spots I was missing and then lying down with his head along my leg and closing his eyes and sighing happily as I very gently worked through the under-collar fur with a brush. For the most part his coat is very non-matting but that neck spot, under his ears, and the very backs of his feathers can get really dense and also really matted. I was just quietly brushing him, he was slowly falling asleep making little happy sounds, the house was quiet. Everything was exactly right with the world.

After having brushed out tonight's basketball-sized amount of hair from mostly that narrow band around his neck (and having spent lots of time petting him and snuggling) I went to put his collar on and even with all the hair removal it barely fit. I had to carefully part and de-poof quite a bit of his fur to get it on.

I hate to think that he's halfway through his life now, or more. The bond increases with all of them every year.