"You too now begin to be a magician"
Ok, we’ve seen them down the road before; and we’ve heard them out in the woods – and I once even witnessed a pack take down a deer a couple miles from here – but when they show up in your back yard, licking their chops (I have chickens and children) – what are you supposed to do?
They’re almost to magnificent to kill – but I think the winter kill of the deer last year was so significant that we’re likely to have a big problem with them this year….
Ok, first part of this story is that I have been waiting for my chickens to lay eggs all summer…
Last Saturday I went out and found that my chickens had laid eggs! While I was surprised that the first eggs were so large, and heavy (I thought maybe they were frozen because they were in the outside chicken run instead of the inside coup) – I took it in stride and was extremely excited that I finally got eggs!
But what I came to find out is that my sadistic sister-in-law (with the help of my eager parents) came over while we were out of town the night before, picking up my broken car that had been fixed, and they placed hard-boiled eggs in my chicken coup. That explained the size & weight of the eggs… I sure would have been surprised when I went to crack them open for Sunday morning pancakes.
I’m not going to forget though; I’m not going to turn the other cheek – and when she least expects it I’m going to get her back, and get her back good…
In the mean time, I went out to the chicken coup this evening, and I have a message for her…
Hey Ellen… go suck on an Egg – in fact actually go suck two! I’ll gladly loan you slop covered eggs I took out of the coup tonight!
I completed it last week on 10.11.2008. We ended up making the siding and door match the house. Amanda wanted to just throw up a lean-to-shack; but I didn’t want to have something so ugly sitting outside behind my house. I ended up putting in solar lights into the chicken house too – so they have light at night (hoping that once they start laying the light will keep them laying all winter).
We ended up getting one rooster in our shipment of chickens! Rooster! I thought it was just a well-endowed hen!
I don’t usually blog for no apparent reason, but I figured I would tonight. On Monday of this past week I went rock climbing and mountain climbing… I’m afraid of heights.. but I managed pretty well…
I got up 100 feet or so and back down – while harnessed and locked into the side of the mountain, but I was too scared to go up the other 900 or so feet, attached to nothing but a rope and a piece of metal stuck into the side of the mountain – so instead I decided to climb up the side of the mountain, almost as steep, by myself with no rope, but I had trees and roots and rocks to hold on to.
A couple times I was ready to just throw myself over the side and be done with it – but determined as I was to make it to the top – I did indeed. Then I sat at the top of the mountain and waited to meet God in the clouds. I could say that He never showed up, but I’m not so sure… it at least wasn’t the rapture – so, unfortunately I was stuck climbing back down the mountain again (which wasn’t as bad as I feared it was going to be).
Anyway, so then on Tuesday, we went to Story land with the kids. I have to admit, that while I wasn’t overly impressed at the cost of story land, nor the cliché of the whole ordeal – we did have a lot of fun. The kids actually got along and stopped fighting for like 6 hours straight, and I actually spent time with my family (without a computer or an IPOD for like 6 hours straight).
Donovan & Braeden & Bella and I played in the ball house for like an hour, and Donnie & Braeden and I went on the roller coaster ride! 🙂 Amanda went on the crazy barn with Donnie & Brady, and we went on the teacup and floating balloon rides together as a family. I had A LOT of fun. I enjoyed myself. I’m going to put pictures up on the MySpace as soon as I get them from Amanda.
So after work today I was supposed to go work on the garden, stack some wood that I cut down & up two days ago, mow the lawn, and feed the wood stove, as well as work on homework.
It was so hot, that instead I spent two hours setting up this new blog site, went and unloaded a few rounds out of the Glock 22 & 27 with my little brother, and am now sitting at my sons computer and watching the polywogs.
Nothing very interesting happened today, really, and this is pretty boring. I think I’ll create a new blog category called “Diary”. That’s where I can put the not-so interesting stuff that probably no one would be interested in reading, unless I dropped dead.
Time to go pray with my two boys – I have a feeling that the little girl has already fell asleep…