Marvin was able to get away for a few days for some R&R. Of course, that left me to do the early morning and late night chores as well as the Sunday list.
Sunday night I went up the hill to put the chickens to bed. This means that I close up the hen house so the coyotes don't have a feast during the night. For those of you that are not familiar with chickens, we let them out in the morning so they can wander about the property and eat lots of yummy things to make their eggs taste good. When it gets dark, they know to return to the house - no chasing them around.
Anyway.....I had to start the generator to run the lights on the baby chicks. I always go in to check on them and give them a bit more food (more food - faster growing). I tripped on a board as I went in the house, totally lost my balance and was trying desperately not to land on top of a dozen or so chicks. I'm happy to say that I was successful and only ended up with a bruise on my calf.
That crisis averted, I headed back down to turn off the irrigation to the vegetable field. The faucet had been leaking all day and saturating the ground. We recently ran a water main to this area and the ground was not really compacted enough. I stepped onto this area and sunk to my upper thigh! I lost my new flip-flop in the bottom of this mud pit and was covered in the stickiest mud you have ever seen. And this was just the first day he was gone!!!!
Since I had nobody else to complain to, I just had to laugh as I was hosing myself off.
Boy am I glad he's home!
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