By the time I left for work this morning I had taken 10,283 steps for the equivalent of 6.04 miles, burned 1425 calories and had 7 leaves on my “fitbit flower”.It was 11:15am.
I got up at 5:30am and Nordic Walked with Gail, first time for the 2 of us to be together on the trail for a few days as her family has been in town, it felt good to be back in sync
7:45am I was on my way to Cub to get canning jars and black peppercorns to make dill pickles, seems my brother picked almost a bushel of cucumbers over the weekend for me to process. Cucumbers don’t wait so they had to be done this morning. With the help of Gail’s sister Lois and her husband Tim we did 26 quarts and 6 pints of pickles by 9:15am. The lids all popped, promise of good eating in the months to come.
9:30 the kitchen was all cleaned up, laundry going, Tim and Lois on the road to Ely and I went out to check gardens and chickens. Strawberry tops to the chickens and zuchinni to pick, the green beans and cukes can wait til tomorrow. I dumped compost buckets and took a little more recycling out to the street. I needed something to eat so grabbed a quick bowl of yogurt and berries, did I mention we picked blueberries on Friday and I came home with 24 pounds of blue gold? yum
It was now 10:30am and time to clean up and get to work. I was on the 12-8 shift at Hoigaard’s today.
Just a normal day in life on the Jondahl Compound.
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A year ago I got chickens from my daughter for Mother’s Day.
On Friday, just before Mother’s Day, the local fox took 10 of my 21 chickens home for dinner.
Bummer! We knew that letting the chickens free range would increase the odds that we would loose a few to predators, but we had no idea that we could loose half the flock at one time. The chickens love being out of the barn, wander all over the pasture, co mingle with the dogs and the sheep and have developed a taste for worms in wet weather. Hence they were out in the barnyard feasting on worms in the rain when the fox came through looking for food for his kits.
Today Sam (my youngest son) and Kenny (my youngest brother) spent the whole day converting the old playhouse into a new chicken coop.
What a wonderful surprise to come home from working today to see this tidy new home for my chickens!
In a few days we’ll have food and water installed with a secure lock and the chickens will have free roam of the
fenced in yard at my mom’s house with Kenny’s sweet dog Hannah as their protector.
She’s a pyranese/lab mix and needs a job. I think she’ll be a great chicken herder.
In the meantime we’ve ordered some new chicks and are searching Craig’s list for chickens needing a good home.
Happy Mother’s Day!