Family Zoom

We had such a fun Family Zoom last night!

It was great to see all the faces!

And all the pets! 

(grin)

Technology is such a wonderful thing!

And now, this morning I gloved and masked up

and did the social distancing thing at WalMart 

and at Sams.

Needed (mostly) dog food.

And Kyle was out of chocolate milk mix

and since that's his breakfast every day.....

it was kind of essential.

Now I'm home, the groceries are put away

the animals are fed,

Kyle has gone to work,

I'm going to make some breakfast (yes, it's 11:30 am)

and do a workout.

Then I'm going to make a big batch of

egg salad for Rod (had to BUY eggs at Sams)

and maybe a couple loaves of sprouted bread.

*eggs: I caught the raven/crow red "beaked" who

has been sneaking into the coop as soon as I let

the girls out for the afternoon and stealing my eggs!

The other night I closed the coop, but when I came

out the next morning the door was open.

(It's just held closed by a hunk of wood on a single

screw - you just turn it to block the door... must have

not turned it far enough... it was a WINDY night...)

Anyhow, the girls were all out.

But that's ok, they stay close to home

and all return to the nest boxes to lay.

But when I went out later to collect eggs

there weren't ANY!

So the next day when I let the girls out

(and collected the eggs)

I hid in the barn and watched.

Sure enough - here he came.

Sat on the top of the roof ladder,

then the other leg of the roof ladder,

then the edge of the roof (over the horse trough)

then onto the pasture gate,

then on the fence post next to the coop,

then ... zoop! Into the coop!

Stinker!!!

So I have to be more vigilant about gathering

my eggs before I let the girls out.

Anyhow.

I lost 7 eggs that day.

Saturday I only got 5

and yesterday I only got 6 (1 was broken in the nest).

And Rod had a guy at work who has REALLY

been waiting a long time for eggs,

so we sold him 2 dozen on Friday.

Which meant I was nearly out.

But selling all those eggs paid for the round roll

of hay for the cows for this 2 weeks.

So it's a fair trade-off.

*I can buy eggs WAY cheaper than what

we sell them for...

They are generally $.98 at Aldi.

I paid $1.50 for 18 today.

They don't taste as good, but when you are

just going to smother them in mayo and make

egg salad out of them, it doesn't matter.

OK.

GET TO WORK COLLETTE!

Have a lovely day!