Hello, my blogger friends! Haven't written much of a post since my lost phone incident, so I figured I would write one today. Did you miss me? hehehe Probably not, but here I am anyway.
We have snow here on the farm today...and the schools are closed...which equals a day off. But really...is there any such thing as a day off? Especially living on a farm? I know I have a stack of laundry to do. Still have to feed the rabbit...not that that is hard job or anything, but still must be done in the snow! Rod will still be checking chickens....hehehe notice I didn't volunteer yet today to do that? :P I still have a house to clean. So, we don't really have a day off...just a change of plans for the day. Either way, I will take it!
I can't say that much different has been going on here. Oh, the chickens are already starting to go out. We get a call during the day, and they say "2000 white pullets are going out from house 1 at 6 tonight" I have to write it all down so that when I tell Rod I get it all right. I am not sure which of the details are needed, so I just tell him everything! In fact, if the man told me what color pants he was wearing, I would probably repeat that to Rod too!
The guy even tells me about the feeding schedule then too. Here I thought he was just telling me that because he knows I don't know anything. Isn't that nice of him?!?! I thought so, too. But then I found out he tells that to the farmers too, not just me. :) Rod did tell me I could use abbreviations for the message...like wp for white pullets....or 2k for 2000, and that he would know what that would mean. Again..how thoughtful....only, it would take me longer to think about what the abbreviation was than it does for me to just write it out. I will just continue to write it out....or if I want to look like I know what I am doing, I could rewrite the message for Rod with the abbreviations....hahaha I really am not dumb...I just don't think as fast as I used to, and this chicken language I am still learning, so it is just easier for me to do things the long way.
I haven't learned to do the equipment yet, like putting up feeders and water lines, so poor Rod had to come home from hunting camp the first night so that he could get things ready for the chickens to go out. That will be a job I will learn in time...just it was too much to explain to me over the phone. I felt bad for him...but I was glad to see him! :)
Oh! Something I forgot to tell you all about last week because I was so grossed out with my phone situation. Remember earlier when I said I liked the black/grey chickens better than the white ones? Well, I still do! That night when I went into the first chicken house, the white ones were the first for me to go through. And boy did they seem to have attitude! Maybe they were girl chickens...sorry, girls, but we do get attitudes much faster than guys do....or maybe these are just the teenage-ish chickens ...and again, sorry teenagers, you seem to have more attitudes (but I love you anyway)...but they had attitudes. Like "what?!? You want me to move?" ...and "who do you think you are walking in here disturbing us"....well, I got pecked by not one or two, but several of the white chickens!!! What's with that? It didn't hurt because I had on my cute boots, but still! How rude! :P hehehe The black or grey ones are still smaller, and they run to stay out of your way. Love it! :)
On a funny side note....as you know, I am happily, newly married...and its our first Christmas together...so we decided on a real tree for Christmas this year instead of the artificial trees we each had used in the past few years. So, on Saturday, we excitedly got into the truck and went and picked out a tree...a very nice tree. And brought it home. Rod looked for his tree stand...it was much to small...so I went to my old house to look for the stand we used before, and couldn't find it. So, here we were...with a beautiful Christmas tree, and no stand! hahaha...but thanks to Facebook...and a dear friend who said she had one we could have, we now have our tree in our house in a stand! (its just not decorated yet...I have to go get the lights from my other house!) :) When I figure out how to add pictures to this blog, I will post a picture of our first Christmas tree!
That's all for now...until next time...eat more chicken!!!
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