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@lcertuche Yeahhhhhh that's probably closer to where we are. I'm solidly getting 8 eggs a day now. Princess lays the BIGGEST egg. I can't even put them in the cartons, which is probably ok because I've got 6 cartons of 18 in my fridge right now. I need to sell some of these babies!!! Trying to build a market is the hardest part. I need to send texts to a few people to nudge them and see if it helps. I did notice yesterday afternoon that somebody has nipped Princess's shoulder again. She was healing really really nicely, and then yesterday I saw some damage again. SO frustrating!! I need to get her out of that little cage! It can't be doing her any good, especially since she's standing in more poo than she should be, and she can't scratch easily, and she's not getting the scraps that the others are getting. I really need to find a source of green scraps for them, too. I think it would help them a lot if they were eating better scraps (we don't exactly eat as well as we should either!!)
OMG I've been SO maxed out. I'm covering for one of the gals in the office who is away, BO, and doing her job. Well, poor planning on the part of the rest of the front office team has meant that I've had to cover for them, too. That is normally what BO does. But when I'm covering for BO I can't do her job plus cover for the front office as well. It's left me exhausted, frustrated, and I had to skip yoga this morning. That does NOT make me a happy camper!! Especially because it was being taught by one of my favorite teachers!
We have wet weather rolling in tonight, on top of the chill that we got yesterday. Wednesday night the temps dropped, and yesterday the high was only about 24 with winds gusting to 50mph, sustained 20-30mph. It was GROSS. I was GRATEFUL to be in the office yesterday! This morning it was 9 when I woke up. Wednesday I left the office at 2 trying to get a couple errands run, and then get home to prep some of the packages I'm going to have to mail down to NC for the holiday. Got home, started feeding horses, and realized how bad the weather was going to be and realized that we needed to take care of some things to make sure that stuff didn't freeze, and to seal up the barn better for winter (we have a couple temporary panels that get taken down in summer to open the barn up, and then get put back up in winter, never got around to it until now...). So ended up doing that all evening, and hardly got time to work on presents. I'm just praying that I have energy to do it tonight when I get home, and that I can get stuff boxed in the morning to get it to the post office before they close tomorrow, which will probably be in the rain.
Tonight it's supposed to start snowing, we're supposed to get around 1" before it shifts to freezing stuff, and then to rain. The high tomorrow is in the 40's. I think we're blessed that it might stop around midday, and then it will begin again tomorrow night. Sunday we're supposed to hit a high of 58 in the morning, and then the low will be 22, hitting 35 by dark. Which probably means more wind. I'm SO NOT thrilled about this.
I was supposed to go to NYC to visit a friend, but I cancelled the trip. It cost me $5 to change the bus ticket, but at that point I was willing to take the penalty. I've been so overwhelmed in the office that I just couldn't wrap my head around going up there, losing my whole weekend, and being on public transportation around strangers who are probably all germy.
So instead, I'll stay home, take care of extra chickens for SR since he's away, and then work on Christmas gifts, and hopefully get a few more much needed chores done. I desperately need to make a few more adjustments to the coop for the chickens to finish cleaning it up from the way it used to be set up.
So I'll be in the office today for about 10 hours. I came early to try to catch up on some of the work that I didn't get done yesterday because I spent most of the day in meetings, and doing the most necessary parts of BO's job. I should probably start working LOL
Oh, still don't have my friend's horses on the farm yet. I'm rather frustrated about that because every day they aren't here is a day they aren't paying me. That's a bit of a story, and reminds me of other news I haven't told yall about.
The BF got his first deer on Sunday! He went out early in the morning, though it was later than I should he should be going out, and got a really nice hefty doe. He was all in a tizzy and rattled, and thankfully JB was on the farm so he was able to help guide him through gutting it. Well, actually a friend of his who was randomly on the farm helped him. So it's at the processors and we'll hopefully get a call in the next day or so to go pick it up. I can't wait!
So the story part is that on the way up to the processors with the deer, which was thankfully not that far away, the pickup truck stars getting sluggish. We limp to a parking lot, and he looks underneath and says that exhaust has blown off, so the engine isn't getting the pack pressure. So he grabs his tools and the bolt breaks immediately. So he curses, and we limp to the processors. We're almost there and all the sudden the noise changes under the truck and now is sounds like we're a flock of banshees going down the road. Awesome. Everybody in a two mile radius knows WE'RE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD because the truck is SCREAMING as we creep down the road. Apparently it blew out pretty much all the way.
Finally half way home it stops wailing, but now we have absolutely no power. So we're limping down the road at about 25. The WHOLE. WAY. HOME. On roads that are normally 40, which people often drive 55 (don't know who that would be...
). We keep pulling off every opportunity we get to let the string of cars behind us go by, which is not all that often cause back roads have nowhere to pull off. And we've got steep twisty roads, so up the hills was only 20mph. Fun times.
So the truck's been busted. Poor BF repaired the problem, only to find out that the reason the problem happened in the first place is that the carburetor is clogged. Insert more cursing here. So he's trying to figure out what to do about that since a new carburetor is about $400 for the old '88. Wheeee!
So my friend's horses aren't here yet, and their friend that they gave their trailer to that said they'd haul for them, well, his dad died, so he's been out of commission, too. They're going to reach out to him again tomorrow, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they can haul over on Monday afternoon. That will be the best time for me, and then I can start getting them settled before the bad weather hits again. We'll see what happens.
I suppose I ought to get some real work done now before things get cranking around here. It's mostly me by myself on the front desk today (that's job #3 that I SHOULDN'T be doing... See aforementioned note regarding poor planning of the front desk team!)
I would have bought them and then resold the rest to pay for what I wanted to keep!! Good lord!! 
@Denim Deb So happy to see you again, too!
I have my one chicken that was getting picked on in a wire dog crate in the coop locked up so that she's not bullied, and she's begun to sneeze every once in a while. I'm wondering if it's because she's sitting about 2 feet from a giant pile of moldy poop. It doesn't help that I'm only able to clean the sawdust in the bottom of the crate every few days, either. I'm praying that the weather is warm enough and not so terribly windy tomorrow that I can brave it and go get all that cleaned up. Princess Chicken needs some time to sit outside in the sunshine, anyway. I don't like that she's locked up in the dark coop all day, but I don't have a choice if she's getting picked. Her feathers are just beginning to grow back so I'm hopeful that they'll leave her alone soon. She needs to be able to run around and do chicken things all day to get better! The irony is that she lays one of the largest eggs out of all of the 8 birds. When she lays, which is about every other day most of the time. 
But at least I get to catch up with yall! I've missed you! And now I feel like I fit in even more cause I got chickens!!
