I know I have posted this photo before… However.
I am using it as my RED photo for the new photo challenge I am running on facebook. At least I took it within the correct time frame!!
I wanted to get back and brainstorm something different but I have just run out of time. It starts tomorrow so… just have to go with it!
Today was a bit mad. So much on my list before heading up the highway to hopefully collect my friend tomorrow!
Of course there was the obligatory house clean (mostly successful)
I baked a cake, went to the supermarket to get things for a picnic lunch tomorrow and pre cooked dinner for tomorrow night as I know I won’t feel like thinking or doing anything extravagant when we get home.
We had the sad task of dispatching one of our chooks. Yes I cried a lot. She was one of the older ones and she just was going downhill. She couldn’t get up very well yesterday, so we popped her in the cat carrier with some fresh hay to spend a warm night inside. Then she got some sunshine today with some special food which she even ate a little of out of my hand.
It was the first time I had helped Jeff with this task. Its not nice, but its quick and humane. Another little plot.
Jeff said the day this task gets easy is the day we give up having our chickens.
Once I had sufficiently recovered to go out in public, we put the trailer on to go get our woodchips for the front path. To find the shop shut. Seems there is a public holiday down here. We continued on to Ruby’s where we helped Margie pull up all the strawberries and dump in a heap of compost to get the raised bed filled back up again ready to go. We have left the planting for Ruby to do!
She was having a slow day today, so being sensible and resting.
So lots of bits and pieces we done today… didn’t even bring out the camera!!
Hope your Sunday is/was peaceful!
Cheers
*hugs* – for your lost chook 🙁
Thanks Lee xx Its never a nice day when we lose a chook 🙁
So sorry to hear about your chicken. It never gets any easier, does it? One of mine died in the week. She was called Mollie and achieved 15 minutes of fame on facebook about a year ago because she became ill and I brought her into the house until she recovered. I answered the door one day with her wrapped in a towel and apologised for the delay but I was bathing my chicken in the kitchen sink. The delivery man backed away down the drive… Anyway, she went back outside when she started trying to eat the dog’s dinner and had a lovely summer but went downhill very quickly at the end.
oh – I am sorry you lost your Mollie! 🙁 Never a nice thing. I am having a little chuckle about bathing her in the sink and wondering what the delivery guy thought!! haha Thats excellent!
We do what we can and at the end of the day, they’ve had pretty good lives with us so thats a really good thing. xxx
Jeff is right. When it doesn’t bother you any more it’s time to throw in the towel.
Thanks Deb – I think so too! Our girls are like pets – as pesty as they can be at times (FOUR in the garden today!! Sneaky things! haha)