Sunday Morning

Its a beautiful and bright morning here, I'm in awe that its gone by so quickly.

The bantam cochin cockerels are being bullies, so they've been banished to the duckling grow out pen. I tossed them in there this morning, which means I'll be out there this afternoon throwing down new hay for them to peck through.

Lots of poultry movements:
The Khaki Campbell ducklings and their mom, Lucy, are back in the KC pen with Bernie. He's thrilled.
Mamma Onyx is in the Rowdy Roost pen brooding, again.
Mamma Wendy and her tiny brood are in the new nursery brooder hutch.
Mamma Salt and her three are in the grow out pen attached to the blue shed coop.
Onyx's three blue chicks are growing out in the Bantie Barn. Once they get to a decent, adolescent size we'll incorporate them into the blue shed coop. Though, we're going to have to rehome the cockerel before that happens.

I'm still tweaking the living room and have spent most of the morning running laundry (curtains, sofa covers, living room blankets, etc). The kitchen counters are cleared off and I'm just waiting on the contractor to show up to paint the ceiling. I likely should be going through the cupboards and cabinets to find things to donate to thrift shops, but instead I'm taking it easy and trying to keep my feet up. At this rate, its going to take me a few days to recover and frankly, I just don't have them to spare.

Kevin and Lisa came by just awhile ago to drop off the carpet and pad at the dump. I have no idea what's on their schedule today.

Making use of time - kitchen simplicity

Waiting for the contractor to show up, so I went ahead and started going through the kitchen drawers. I now have a box of stuff to take to the thrift shop, if it takes more than another hour, I'll likely get through the cupboards, as well.

I went ahead and started cleaning the stove top. I soaked the drip pans in the sink with soap, every so often I went in there to give them a scrub. The coils needed a bit of cleaning too so I went after them with baking soda and a scrub brush. Once they dry, I'll put them back in the stove top. I'd like to put down new shelf paper in the kitchen cupboards and drawers, but that's a two person job - one measuring and the other cutting. So when Josh gets home, I'll have him do the measuring. Its also the kind of job you do on a rainy winter's day, so that's been set ahead in the calendar. :D

Meanwhile, there is laundry going on - everything fabric from the front of the house that I can, has been run through the laundry. I still need to yank off the 3-seater cover, but Doodle is asleep on there at the moment. I'll wait until he gets up to do so. Tiger has offered to iron the curtains, not sure they are worth that, but we'll talk.