Yup. Landlady and Ian come up for the weekend and the weather goes completely to hell. Big wind, rain and slushy attempts at snow yesterday. This morning it dawned as cold as it has in…well, only about four days, actually, according to my journal. But I was outside filling a waterer and bitching about being cold in a shirt and light jacket instead of bundled up in six layers like Nanook of the frickin’ North. Because I’m a girly-man. I dunno, maybe it’s the suddenly elevated humidity making it seem so much colder than it actually is. Or the wind, which is still considerable.
Had our biggest chicken-“processing” day ever yesterday and it pointed out certain deficiencies in our infrastructure. It really needs to be done outdoors, for one thing, because it stinks up your house. Also, killing cone. Landlady took a picture of Bloody Joel that, were it ever published, would have people gunning up and hiding their children wherever I passed for the rest of my life. But that’s out of the way now. Not really sure what’s on the docket for today. Except coffee. Much coffee now.
ETA: What the hell? I don’t know anybody with small children. Not around here, anyway…
Wow. I showed your picture to my boss. She commented “Hey, he’s not half bad lookin’, despite the blood. Or maybe because of it.” I gotta change jobs… Actually, you appear to be aging rather well. (I must be getting hungry- jokes about aged cheese and wine are coming to mind but it’s sunday so I’ll be polite.)
One way or another, fowls and gentlemen with beards are bound to come into conflict this time of year.
You’ve been trimming your fowls, I’ve been trimming my beard – we’re both keeping ahead of the start of nesting season.
http://leonbloy.deviantart.com/art/Stereogram-Smiley-45969213
When we had birds, I used one of those post surgical cone collar things you get at the vet and it worked great. Cheap, easy washable plastic.
Nice glasses, by the way.
Nice glasses, by the way.
Those are the cheap drugstore readers that have made my life possible for the past couple of months. Hopefully they’ll be retired sometime this week in favor of real glasses.
get an old tire and put two safety cones upside down crosswise to each other in the open center.