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February 3, 2008

Daily Farm Report

I think I shall endeavor to write a daily farm report. I find myself so busy running around after horses, dogs, cats, chickens and guineas, that I am exhausted by the time I sit down to log onto my computer. I should keep a diary of sorts, and this seems a good place!

Okay, here goes.

Last night, none of the guineas would go into the chicken run. I tried everything I knew to get them in there, but they are tired of winter and wanted some freedom. So they slept on the barn roof. Gunner was all upset about something, so he went out late running after some critter, and then spent a good chunk of the night on the deck, keeping an eye on my guineas.

John let him in the house at some point, and he jumped in bed in between us and wiggled and wagged to get some attention.

I woke up around 5:30, and I got up and threw on my boots and a coat over my nightgown so I could check on the guineas. I managed to get 2 of them into the chicken run, Dusty and Bill, who were napping on the ground under the elm - idiots! If they are going to sleep outside, they need to sleep up in a tree or something to avoid the ground predators!!

They were so sleepy, I merely walked over to the two of them, picked them up and stuck one under each arm to return them to their proper roosts in the chicken run.

The others were on the roof all night, and all survived. I figure God watches over really dumb critters like Guineas, otherwise, they would be extinct!!

I made the mistake of letting Gunner out this morning with guineas and chickens out of the chicken run - it seemed to be okay for awhile, he was checking out things on the other side of the farm, but he came back, saw birds out of their normal place and tried to herd them into the pen.

Naturally, all the birds freaked out, and Gunner did his weird thing of chasing down one of the birds (this time Bill, the Guinea) and laying by it until I come to get it. In fact, he was holding poor Bill down with a paw, I'm amazed the bird did not have a heart attack on the spot. They were almost the entire way down the steep hill behind our backyard, so I (still in my nightgown) had to hike down there and pick up Bill and carry him back to the pen.

John and I did take Gunner for a walk this morning (I guess maybe a mile and one half), but it started sleeting, snowing and raining, so we headed back home.

Major and his brother, Andy, came by to borrow our big trailer so they could go pick up a couple of round bales for the horses - their dad brought a big truckload back from Oklahoma yesterday, but he took it all up to their land in Atchison County.

It is a gray, chilly, wet Sunday. I completely cleaned the ugliest bathroom on earth today - tackled the ugliest bathroom tile on earth with really strong cleaner to see if I could make it less dingy, and I did! It's still ugly has hell, but at least it is not quite so depressing.

Hal, our fat cat, is still having bladder issues. He was at the Vet for two days last week, catheterized, so he could pee. He's home now, on antibiotics, and not a very happy camper. We are probably going to have that surgery done on him that will change his urinary tract so he can't get any more crystals stuck and prevent him from going potty. This is his third problem in three months.

And poor Little Girl is really showing her age. She has a hard time keeping food down, and spends nearly all her time sleeping. We have to brush her an bathe her because she just doesn't keep herself nice anymore.

All the other critters are pretty good.

And all this running around has finally kicked my metabolism, and I'm losing weight - hurray!

About 30 pounds so far.

Okay, that's all for today's Farm Report!

Posted by Beth at February 3, 2008 11:56 AM

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