I’ve just sat down and it is 9:25pm and I am beat. I am too tired to get up and go to bed. All the animals are tucked in. The teens have finished cake so now they’re making popcorn. When the kids were little I was always afraid of losing one of them, not a problem now, I could just follow the trail they make every night with popcorn.
My loving spouse and I are thinking we must have a virus. We’re tired, our backs hurt and so do our heads. OR we could be restoring a farm, feeding & negotiating 4 teenagers, 17 animals, starting a new job and dealing with multiple piles of legal paperwork. I don’t know, seems like a virus to me.
The hen-house is now done! Once a milk parlor it is probably the only hen-house sporting a bull on its weather vane, which will stay as we love its style. The perches and the nesting boxes were revamped from the old hen-house by Pat with help from various teens. The ‘opportunity’ to teach teens sometimes butting up against the desire to just get the job done. However now that it is done and checked off ‘the list’ it is quite sweet the number of hands that have brought this project along. The girls gave the nesting boxes the mandatory coat of barn red paint, so we are officially ready for fresh eggs.
Tomorrow the older-shorter teen heads to Utah. She is the current cat whisperer and the only one little Roo really trusts. She has our blessing to take Roo to Utah, she just can’t seem to clear it on the other end. Roo may make it yet, as she and the little brother are planning a double team assault on the Utah parental units. “It followed me home (on the airplane) can I keep it?”.
Not surprised you are so tired!! It is a big job that you are doing! Emotional drag adds to that! Everything is looking great and worth all the work!
Things are really coming together. Nice that all the Teens are visiting when so much work is needed. What job (I am guessing it is a pay type) haha is pat doing.
Love the Hen House. Can’t wait to hear about the first egg collecting.