Today... well, yesterday, I guess. Anyway, today was a really easy day at the barn. Tomorrow I finish clearing the arena boards, probably pull weeds if the incessant rain lets up a bit, probably refill water barrels -- at the barn. Then it's back to those drainage ditches -- apparently, unfinished ditches can collapse under the weight of new rain and mud and muck.
Today, I got a bunch of supplies off of Amazon.com for future chicks. Eventually I want to raise silkies (not gonna lie, I like them because they remind me of chocobos), easter eggers (for their colorful eggs - they can lay blue, green, yellow, pink, brown, tinted, and lavender eggs), and Buckeyes (they're a heritage breed). For now, though, it's just going to be silkies. They're extremely docile, apparently, and very soft. I got a feeder, waterer, heat-emitting infrared bulb, and a clamp lamp for a total of about $20. Now all I need is the actual box, bedding, feed, grit, and chicks! Plus, this gives me more motivation to get going on that coop.. which I'm currently lacking, to be honest. It seems like such a far-off-in-the-future kind of thing that to start on it at all is to spook it and then it runs off, unattainable. Instead, my chick raising supplies will arrive around the middle of next week (which happens to be my 21st birthday).
Nikki had the day off so we didn't do much as far as work goes. Actually, we went shopping and then to my father's house to pick up some stuff I'd forgotten and desperately needed (like a hairbrush, and socks).
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