Stupid mower.

Okay. Take a look at this picture.


This almost looks like a mower....

Stuck in a hole....

On a hill....

Next to a fence....








If, um, that is actually what this picture is.......then perhaps a neighbor came over and drug the stupid fucking mower out of the hole for me.



Perhaps.




ANYWAYS. Since I had an extra hour of free time where my mower was otherwise engaged, I finished making the chicken pen six feet tall. It is by far not finished, but FUNCTIONAL.







It still has the smaller 4 foot gate, which is good enough for now, to be honest. Making gates is fricking ridiculous. Maybe someday I will change it. Or maybe not, since the only thing it is used for is to refill food and waterers, and I plan on making some others that are accessible from the outside.




As I mentioned earlier, the Evil Rooster did not go in his day pen today so I just left his stupid ass loose in the yard. He was still kicking when I got home. Okay, so technically he was still dancing. Even with me just standing on the deck looking out over the yard, he growls and drops a wing and dances around trying to fight with me.


I have to admit, I brought Frankie out and let him annoy Crockpot a bit. Frankie needs something to do to "engage" him, so I want to teach him to herd the chickens a bit. Mostly he just wants to eat them though.









So I got the chicken pen worked on, I took out the trash, watered all the plants, refilled all the feeders and waterers, swept the garage, etc etc. I was just jamming along all DISGRUNTLED about the stupid mower. I did manage to mow a stripe in the front yard (and all of the back) before getting stuck.

Guess I will finish tomorrow?




The little chickies should be getting excited. They should have a day playpen within a week or two. I am going to start putting up the "big" chicken pen this week, and will move the girl and crockpot (if he is still here) back there, freeing up their little day pen for the little kids to go out in. I am going to then work on either putting a divider into the coop, or making another one, for the Blue Andalusian set. We'll see!


It's funny, I had no motivation whatsoever to work on stuff again until today.....once I get started working again, I am okay for a few days of serious motivation. I am going to try to get the big pen at least started, get the two gates built (for the front porch and back deck), get the front porch all cleared off finally.....and I think that might be it for "big jobs". Of course, the new or modified coop would be nice but I am not quite in dire straits for it just yet.



Earlier I mentioned Bella having eye problems.


Now, let's look at it this way.


If you dropped your totally normal dog off at the vet/groomers and picked them up looking like this......








...what would you do?



This is the second time this has happened although this time seems worse than the last. Is she getting hair in her eye? Soap in her eye? Nicked with the clippers? Allergic to the shampoo?


Once is a freak thing, twice makes me wonder. I am in the market for a new groomer, apparently.



Fortunately, she is back to almost normal today.









She is so darn cute. So I think she has always had a heart murmur, but it was significantly worse this visit, so she is on once daily meds for it now. I'm sure its the whole poodle/congestive heart failure thing, poor little Bella. Because of all the eye drama I will start it this weekend.


I also finally found a low cost clinic for Frankie to get his yearly shots. Did I mention Bella was due for her rabies and it was $36? Yikes! That is completely ridiculous. Frankie will go to the low cost place next month when my mom is here so she can help (since he is so crazy it takes two people to drive him somewhere).





In summation of today, all of that work makes a crazy lady hungry.









It's never a good sign when it takes two plates.