28 May 2026
Just another day around the house today. It started off in the morning for me moving the chickens to their new spots. Afterwards, it was off to the pool. I’ve been battling mustard algae in the pool for the last couple weeks, but I think I have it under control now, or perhaps, at least for the moment.
This picture was a few days ago. Since then, I’ve had the chlorine up high, around 20 ppm to kill off the algae.
Last night, I left the pump off to get what I could to settle out, and I vacuumed this morning. It’s less green now, but still hazy. I’ll get a better picture tomorrow of where its at. Hopefully the kids can get back in it in a few days.
After dealing with the pool, it was off to unclog a toilet that Randal had backed up. He’s still getting the hang of the proper amount of toilet paper, so its a thing. I’ve come to really appreciate toilet closet augers. Much better than plungers and more effective.
We sold a couple baby geese that we hatched. We still have these for which are up for finding a new home, or possibly becoming guard geese for the other chicken pen. Geese are pretty good at keeping things at bay.
After the morning chores and tasks were done, I worked with Evan on his school work.
The kids had a smoothie for breakfast, which helps with the teeth pain from the recent braces adjustment.
We had rain off and on all day netting about 2 inches of rain, which was good as we are short on water for the year so far.
Meagan, Randal, and I spent a while on the porch enjoying the storm while Randal blew bubbles.
After school work was done, the kids watched Back to the Future to help distract from the braces pain. Jarek, in particular, and Arya as well, have been in a fair amount of pain and unable to focus on their usual school work. Hopefully it settles down over the next few days.
After that, it was back to work on my bookkeeping. I have added a media project to my list – reorganizing the music cds. I am also now going through the piles of family photos we have and digitizing them and adding them to the photo repository. The negative scanner and flatbed both showed up today, so I’ve been having fun playing with both of those.
The kids went off to swim practice, and then dinner, and that was pretty much it for the day!
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