chickens

Fizzling Thursday

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3 Sep 2026

Evan and Meagan got to practice early, and started doing some drills. Meagan made Evan a bet that if he blocked more shots than her, she would do his dishes(!). Sadly, he did not succeed.

Garret being a goober, as usual of course.

The other notable thing that happened today was our Ninja toaster oven started to go on the fritz. Which was rather disappointing and only then did we find out how much we really relied on it.

Drippy Friday

4 Sept 2026

Nothing quite like going out to the chickens and finding one randomly dead in the morning. No apparent signs of struggle or injuries.

Wildly crazy loud geese!

After animal chores, it was off to lunch with friends, then to the store. We were running low on our favorite peanut butter. Which, it turns out, was apparently also quite popular as there was none on the shelves when I got there.

Then it was time to change the oil on the truck. I was going to use my new oil extraction pump, but something wasn’t compatible with the setup – either too long of a hose or it couldn’t get down to the oil pan. I had to by a longer piece of tubing but it still didn’t reach.

Meanwhile, there was chess club. Garrett is learning to play, although he has a bit of trouble with losing.

The rest of the kids had a good time. Jarek and Evan can beat everyone there, however; so we need to find them some stiffer competiiton!

Fortunately, I had a Fumoto valve installed, which made it much less messy.

Normally, this results in a partial oil bath for me as 3 gallons of oil is liberated.

Of course, there is no time to change oil like when you are dodging rain showers!

I see a little person got a hold of my phone…


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Attic Adventures!

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30 July 2026

Morning time, Chore time!

Checking on the mama turkey who is still sitting on an egg. She’s been pretty dedicated and made a nest in the tall grass. It was rather difficult to find her, you would not know she was there unless you walked up on her!

Garrett wanted a chess lesson. I gave him a good lesson in the basics. We used his new set that Granny sent.

I sucked it up and went back up into the attic to make some progress on the bathroom project. I found the vent for the downstairs hall bathroom, venting directly to the attic. I’ll add that to the list of things to fix.

I had left an A/C duct disconnected, so I went up to fix that. I also cleared out some insulation around the existing fan and made a hole in the ceiling, so I can access the area from the bottom. I need to rewire the fan and light on to their own circuit. Also, as you can see, it also vents directly to the attic space, so that’s my next trick, to install a roof vent and properly escape the humid air.

The heat has been crazy, but its cooled off a bit and both Meagan and I were in a bit of a funk. But we’ve been getting out of that, and now back at it with the projects!


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Turkey poult and clean up Sunday!

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7 June 2026

Our Sunday morning (really Saturday night) started with with a cheep! A random turkey egg that we found stashed among our animal things hatched, and hatched much earlier than we were expecting.

The last two poults that we had managed to sneak out of their containment, so we are going to have to come up with another solution for this poult.

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