So today was wild....well, Athena gets loose and eats whatever she wants and apparently has been sleeping on my sister's front porch, then I get a visit from another neighbor this morning, bringing her home, claiming her boyfriend kicked my doe because it was in their yard, eating grass....which I neither believe or disbelieve. So I tell the woman that she is about to have a baby....hoping if she was really kicked that it gets back home. So I steaked her out in a problem area of my yard for her to stay on weed control.
Well, I have been thinking about how no one is showing up to help me start working on the fence, so when I picked up DD 18 after her babysitting job, we went buy some ready mix concrete, so I can begin to frame up my fence and when I got back home, I drank a glass of Madeira to give me the courage I needed to tackle a job, then I headed out with a pry bar, a hammer and another glass of Madeira....go into a pen, that I had a deck, I wanted to dismantle to frame up that fence I want so bad and I catch sight of Athena, licking on 2 kids, she had just dropped. One of them was still very messy and the other was trying so hard to reach her teats. She was near a ditch and was licking them so much, that they were about to fall into the ditch, so I took them furthur into the yard and dried them off with towels. Then I took that BO out of the stall I had her in and threw her with the other chickens and put hay down and fresh grain for Athena. When I took the 2 doelings, she followed me and all seems to be fine with them as of about half hour ago, when I checked on them. Only a human can reach them, so they should be fine.
Anyway, the deck is apparently screwed together, so I picked up the pry bar and hammer. I'll get proper tools to dismantle tomorrow and begin digging holes. My fence will begin to be constructed.......Amen. And now, I have 2 new reasons to construct it.
DS came home from work and found out about the 2 kids. I told him one is blue/black and the other is grey, so he says,"I call the blue/black one." Then I tell him they are both doelings and he gets all, "Aughhhhh.....so I guess you not gonna kill them." No....I'm not killing them. And I'm so glad for how I found them....being licked by their momma, alive, rather than how I had to pull the last one, dead, from its mother's body. Now that was sad, but I'm so glad I'm capable of doing it, if necessary.
So my neighbor just left with her girls....she helped me finish that bottle of Madeira. Girl talk. We were exchanging horror stories, funny stories and such.
Probably taking a short trip to pick up 5 buff silky chicks that one of my contacts has for sale. I'm doing so so on my ducking sales. I must see to it that my pekings and rouens stay apart because its obvious that some of the ducklings are mixed......bet they will taste good regardless. I'm fine.
All in all, it was a good day and I plan on being productive tomorrow. If I can begin a fence, with junk in my yard, that will make my yard cleaner, safer and that the neighbors won't be able to see every move I make.......hey, I'm on it.
