The pullets started laying an egg a day with the arrival of warmer weather. in some cases it was in the 70s and 80s in the afternoons. The people who were getting eggs from me regularly had discovered free range eggs from homesteaders who had time and ability to stand guard over free ranging chickens …
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Untimely Winter Weather
The temperature dropped to 11 at one point where i was at and it wasn’t a quick dip. It was a prolonged under 20 degrees for a whole day type of scenario. I knew it was coming. I read the forecast. I understood that it would be a miracle against nature if i didnt lose …
Tea
I spent an hour today wording a sincerely frustrated, come-to-jesus, bring you the logic and point face in its direction email to a company whom until recently was offering a customized monthly tea subscription to customers, i being one of them. The logic being; you cannot email someone and ask them to cancel their own …
An Overnight Wind Storm
I knew we were set to get a cold front. Wind gusts up to 45 mph were forecasted. It ended up arriving shortly before nightfall. As the yard darkened i realized that the trees had grown considerably since i last pruned the branches. Oak branches were battering the laundry line and the cedar tree that …
How You Know You are Joining Your Patients in the Necessity of New and Exciting Isolation Precautions:
– you wake abruptly from sleep every 8 minutes because you seem to have stopped breathing – your resting heart rate is 114 and climbing. – you feel very hot. Your usual layers of sweaters and jackets worn to combat the facility a/c begin coming off. – the orange in your lunch doesnt taste sweet. …
Cricket Gets Spayed
This is what it has come to. Last night i slept in increments of 15 minutes for about six hours so that i could get up and stop her from taking the cone off, alligator death rolling, or swinging from the crate like a monkey on acid. It was really a two person job. One …
Building a Cat Run
Cricket was the most affectionate cat i had ever met. She really enjoyed cuddles, being held like a baby, and her most notable trait was licking my face, hand, or fingers non-stop while i held her. I had grown quite fond of cricket due to her cuddly and affectionate nature. However, i knew there were …
I Set Myself up for Failure.
This is the moment where i began to see my job as a second home and the group of people i worked with as family. My introverted self began participating in things that took me outside of my comfort zone because people i cared about asked me to and i understood that it would make …
Death in the Chicken Pen
Ever since i integrated the pullets into the chicken pen the chickens had been bullying the newbies, as chickens do. The pullets, afraid of the chickens, roosted each night in between the tarp covered fence of the pen and the side of the chicken coop. I kept telling them they’d get stuck here and predators …
A Vehicle Crashes Through the Fence
I was 10 minutes late leaving for work. I was running a bit behind because i was still recovering from the flu and i felt like death but there were patients to be seen and i wasnt feverish so i had to get my butt in gear, take a cold and flu pill for the …