Practical details
Aug. 25th, 2020 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormThe breeding trio has gone off to a home in Burns Lake. They loaded well, UV took a couple minutes but the bones and veggies left over from making chicken stock were good lures. I'll miss them: Acorn and UV and a nice spotty girl.
The pekins have settled in as if they were born here, basically spending half their time as geese and half their time as ducks.
The ducklings from under the snowblower have finished feathering out. Potatoes are fruiting-- and still flowering. Apples are getting fat and losing their sour, though it's only the less-tasty of the two apple trees with "bigger" heavily loaded apples this year. Wednesday night is supposed to be down to 3C and raining -- so likely not frost -- but ouch.
I'd better bring in the green tomatoes soon.
I canned a bunch of chicken stock and started organization of the pantry. It'll need more organization but what doesn't?
Tucker and I got the quail sorted too: twinwall poly instead of mesh for windows, mucked out and clean woodchips, birds ankle-banded by batch and with the roosters marked. Chicken coop next! I got new brooder plates so I can continue using Rubbermaid bins as brooders, the bathtub just isn't as good.
We also had a really lovely date weekend watching 90s and modern Dr Who, lots of snuggles and sex and feeling close, and just generally being together. I really appreciate our connection right now, especially the way it leaves room to move in and out of proximity with each other yet still know we're solid and loved.
Still on the to-do list: eggs set, turnip and beet pickles, sauerkraut, roosters killed, firewood sourced, chimney cleaned.
The pekins have settled in as if they were born here, basically spending half their time as geese and half their time as ducks.
The ducklings from under the snowblower have finished feathering out. Potatoes are fruiting-- and still flowering. Apples are getting fat and losing their sour, though it's only the less-tasty of the two apple trees with "bigger" heavily loaded apples this year. Wednesday night is supposed to be down to 3C and raining -- so likely not frost -- but ouch.
I'd better bring in the green tomatoes soon.
I canned a bunch of chicken stock and started organization of the pantry. It'll need more organization but what doesn't?
Tucker and I got the quail sorted too: twinwall poly instead of mesh for windows, mucked out and clean woodchips, birds ankle-banded by batch and with the roosters marked. Chicken coop next! I got new brooder plates so I can continue using Rubbermaid bins as brooders, the bathtub just isn't as good.
We also had a really lovely date weekend watching 90s and modern Dr Who, lots of snuggles and sex and feeling close, and just generally being together. I really appreciate our connection right now, especially the way it leaves room to move in and out of proximity with each other yet still know we're solid and loved.
Still on the to-do list: eggs set, turnip and beet pickles, sauerkraut, roosters killed, firewood sourced, chimney cleaned.
