Garden and Home Life by Lori Seaborg

Today's Chores

Today's extra chores done:

• Tim shingled the roof of the stable for the goats.
• He also shingled the roof over a portion of the chickens' aviary (75% of it is open to the air -- only one of our hens can fly that high; she prefers sleeping in a tree).
• I hauled the gifts left from the bunnies and the chickens and spread it out on my garden site. 
• We and the children picked up various bits of shingles, lumber, chicken wire, and whatever else we found misplaced in the yard (this is a result of my Decluttering Challenge -- visit my Keeping the Home blog to join in).
• We moved the two bunnies to live by the goats and chickens.  Tim attached their cage to the wall of the goats' stable.  Mary and April, the goats, were mighty curious about their new friends!
• I placed logs and a picket fence around the bottom of the rabbits' pen so my children will stay out of the bunnies' future gifts to us.  Ick!
• We cut down some green branches for our goats.  They just love palmetto branches!
• Tim cut out several more branches that are across our river (courtesy of Hurricane Ivan, September 2004).  This is a huge job but we have made such progress.
• Tim dropped his hatchet into the flowing river
• Tim dropped his big magnet when he tried to find the hatchet with it
• We froze our feet when we thought we might try to swim for the hatchet and magnet. 
• We decided that it is worth the $27 lost to not have to swim in that fridgid water, against the swift current, to try to find the lost tools.