Good morning, everyone! My hen Frankie, one of the first hatched out with fire, is broody. She raised two clutches last summer, which is her usual (she's generally like clockwork, May and August) but apparently wants to get a headstart on this year. I am NOT letting her hatch anything, there just isn't space for even one more LOL.
My decision not to buy any chickens this year (with the exception of a dozen hatching eggs I'm getting in a couple months), or order from hatcheries, has sort of backfired on me. Instead of spending time poring over hatchery catalogues and breeder listings, and obsessively updating wish lists and orders, I'm spending my chicken money on exotic flavours of tea. I've already burned through all the
Cream Earl Grey I can find, and earlier, I caught myself obsessively updating wishlists of chocolate black teas from half a dozen different tea merchants. And ordering three teas from two. One is a blueberry dark chocolate, one an orange vanilla chocolate, and one a spicy concoction with cinnamon and chilis. Buying chickens is actually cheaper, but tea takes up less space in the kitchen and stays there for a lot less time! :coffee:
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. So the squirrel made a sharp left for a tree and so did Ava. But Ava wiped out in the mud and came back limping. Me and my worry level due to what Cinder went through, off to the vet we go. Plus I needed her to get her ears checked out anyways. Soft tissue injury to her elbow, so rest. baaahaaaaa! Rest. We are trying but for a girl who is outside for hours and hours running from point A to point B asking her not to is proving a challenge, but I know the less the better right now. She also had yeast in her ears. Gag I know. She swims, but this girl is one of THOSE that swims under the water so I need to make a point to dry her ears after swimming. Yup, swimming at the lake in January is a thing over here. Well for now it's off the to-do list. Much like her ball playing. Drops for the ears and rest for her front elbow. Wish me luck.
daily over these turbines. I work and work and I don't have anything I am enjoying anymore. I can't go for my nature walks without the turbines constant reminders because they are right in my face and very noisy. I have gone out for dinner with friends to the keg most recently and I struggle (more than usual) to enjoy public settings, my ears ring and ring and they are plugged (cabin pressure). it leaves when I have left the area for several hours, like when I go sleep at my sisters, but if I am going into a noisy place like the keg was that evening, my ears don't settle. Then everything is amplified and muffled and it is everything I have to not have a complete meltdown and storm out. But then I fester. I am working in letting it go more ... But it's very hard when you need to be on a prescription to live in your house and the turbines have ruined a lot of plans and are forcing Us from our home. Listening to music violently loud, which has always been my outlet for life's 
moments, is gone. I can't tolerate music loudly in my ears anymore. So my frustration is fuelled by these previous enjoyments no longer a go-to for me. I gave up the second set of books because the company was not compliant with Rev Can and I won't put my signature on their forms and I'm not interested in being associated with that 
Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
