Trippy the cat. Doctor appointments

This is Trippy. He just looked SO comfortable that I HAD to take a picture. Cute, idn't he? *smile*

So far this morning is going pretty well. The chickens & ducks are happy because we fed them. We've cut down the amount of food we're dolling out from 2 cans of chops to 1. We've done that for two reasons: 1) To save money, because obviously it'll last longer, and 2) The last few chickens we've butchered have had quite a bit of fat on them. And just why did you need to know that? No particular reason I suppose. *smile*

I got 1 and a half load of laundry done yesterday. The half I didn't get done is... you guessed it... still in the dryer. *grin*

Rain made brownies last night, and boy were they delicious! Actually, they still ARE. *smile* She made a cake-size pan of them, and we've only eaten half. In fact I've already had a piece this morning. We were talking yesterday about whether we should go to McD's for lunch today, or treat the kids to DQ. We decided that since we've got brownies at home, it will be healthier to get lunch at McD's. We'll be running, driving actually, 10 miles is a bit too far for us to run, into town today. I need to get a prescription filled, and we need to get a couple of gallons of gas so we can mow.

Wednesday we have doctor's appointments for the kids and I. The kids because they've been having ear aches. We *think* they've got 'swimmer's ear'... again. *sigh* Can't seem to get them to rinse their ears well enough when they take a shower. Our 13 yo DD's ear has been bothering her since last Thursday, bad enough that it's affecting her hearing in that ear. Probably just wax build-up, but we want to make sure. I want to talk to the doctor about changing antidepressants.

Garden area that we fenced

Here is the garden area we worked on getting a fence around yesterday. I know it's extremely hard to see it, but there REALLY IS a fence there. *grin* The wooden thing in the left corner is our compost bin, the blue thing in back, on the right is a chicken tractor that has become a permanent fixture where it is because we built it too heavy, and can't move it. Right now though, it's just sitting there without any chickens, chicks, ducks, or anything using it except to explore for food leftovers. *grin* Basically it's a broody pen for any of the chickens that want to sit on eggs. It's also used as a confinement pen if one of the birds gets injured or sick and needs to be separated why it heals. And last but not least, if you care, that white thing on the right of the picture is the pump-house for our well. *smile* Anyway, now that we've got the garden area fenced (except we want to add another fence on top so it's taller), now we need to start adding cardboard, newspaper, grass, hay, and compost so that by next Spring it'll be ready to have things planted in it. The trick is going to be keeping the chickens out of it. That's one reason we want to make the fence taller. We plan on that layer not being very sturdy, so that the chickens *can't* land on it and then hop to the other side. Besides which, yesterday a couple of the birds got in and then couldn't remember how and then couldn't get out until we opened the gate. LOL.

Rambleman