It has been a busy few days down on the old homestead, with the spring work and all..
Not that I live on a homestead….
or a farm
or a ranch…..
or even a bit of land that is zoned for any of that stuff….
So I guess if I am going to be honest I would have to say….it has been a busy few days in our little slice of suburbia. (I wish I could stay homestead, or farm or ranch or a bit of land that is zoned agricultural)
We worked our little tails off this Saturday, I was cracking the whip! We aren’t going to have another Saturday that we can do yard work until the 24th, so there were a lot of things that needed to get done. Dadzoo built my final box garden, and we planted 64 potatoes, I am hoping for a nice crop this year. He also fixed sprinklers, sprayed dandelions, edged flowerbeds, planted an apple tree (my mothers day gift) and a half a dozen other odd jobs. Anyway, I am so thankful for a good hardworking husband!
On another note, about 6 weeks ago we bought 10 chickens, they were all suppose to be hens. Well, 4 of my hens started crowing. They were really quiet crows at first, kind of funny really, like a teenage boy trying to get his voice. Then they got louder and louder and finally yesterday morning they woke me up at 6 am. Yes, 6 am! Now if we lived on that homestead, I wouldn’t worry about it so much, but we live in a very suburban neighborhood and I am sure the neighbors wouldn’t appreciate a rooster crowing at 6 am. So yesterday evening Dadzoo and a fellow homesteading neighbor dispatched the 4 roosters. And you know something, chickens really do run around with their head cut off, kind of crazy!
That’s the one part of chickens I’m not looking forward to. They do run around. And when you pluck the feathers out, they smell AWFUL. We did lots of yard work Sat. too. It felt so good to finally be out in the fresh air and feeling like we were actually accomplishing something.
ROFL!! We had that happen but I wasn’t brave enough to do away with them (I’m braver now) so we ended up driving out towards the lake where there are lots of farms and found someone who wanted our little chaps. I was a little sad though because roosters are so much prettier than hens! LOL!
You’re too funny! Poor little roosters . . . but then again, better do away with them calmly than have the neighbors murder them!
That is too great! I would behead anything that woke me up with an annoying noise at 6am… Well except maybe Sav?!? But I know I would like to behead my neighbors dog that crows at 7 am for 5 hours strait!!
You are a good neighbor! I would love to hear my rooster crow, even if the neigbors didn’t. we all ought to be up and around by 6am anyway! Oh well, me make some sacrifices to live in the city. I too, wish that I lived on a homestead.