I'm so glad that we didn't have any snow or anything. It was cold but JUST cold! No weather with it!
I'm still bringing Bronco, the barn cat in at night. He sleeps in my front room, which doesn't have heat, but its not drafty like the shed.
Last night, I was putting the chickens in the barn, because it was raining. I noticed that the hen was gone, so I was thinking, crap that sucks! I put the roosters in there, look over and there is a dang possum! I screamed and it just sat there! I kicked stuff and it just stayed. Then it started walking and got a whiff of chicken and stopped. I was like, oh no you don't! Kicked the chickens pen and it ran off. Dang possum! It was just trying to get out of the rain, but NOT IN MY BARN!
I found the hen. Shes in the shed, in her nest, sitting on eggs. I'm pretty sure that she's still sitting on them today. I think she's trying to brood them. These dang chickens and their need to make babies in the winter! I swear. BUT the thing with her nest is, I collect the eggs almost everyday. So right now, there are 2 eggs in the nest and a wooden egg. LOL Shes the kind of chicken that if you take her eggs, shes going to hide them from you. So I saw she was nesting in the shed, I bought a wooden egg the same size as hers, put it in the nest and now she lays around that egg. She even moved it to a better spot and kept laying. So I just collect the real egg and leave the wooden one! LOL So she's trying to hatch a wooden egg! Hahahahaha. Chickens are insane!
Brilliant idea time...
Its not really so brilliant as it is crazy. My husband has already said no to it, pretty much. BUT here is it, I want to get some kennels and start helping the dog rescues in my area, save the dogs. I like like 5, to help catch the overflow. My mom works along side a rescue in town, they have 100 dogs. They have no more room in their kennels, so they're scrambling around trying to find places for these extra dogs. The lady who runs it said that on Jan. 1, she got so many calls for dogs being abandoned and left and tied to trees in parking lots, that she had to take a xanex to keep up with the stress of it.
The newest thing that people do when they dump dogs now, is they tie them to trees in the Petsmart parking lot. THEY TIE THEM TO TREES. There have been like 5 in the last few weeks, all pit bulls, all under a year old, all emaciated. So Petsmart calls rescues that they work with to come get them, ALL the rescues are full. I think the rescues took a couple, then customers took the others. North Carolina is not taking pit bulls anymore, they're putting them to sleep straight away. Their rescues have shut the door to pit bulls because there are so many. California, Arizona, Michigan, and a few other states have all shut their doors on them too. I hate that, but I can't stop that.
So my thought is, I can catch a few of the overflow dogs. A few of the tree dogs, a few dogs chained to dog houses. I could help those few dogs, working with the rescues to find them homes, make them well and healthy. I live on 5 acres. My yard is an acre. And I can clear out more acres for whatever I want. So I'm pretty sure that I can do it, but my husband isn't so happy about hearing my idea.
I have ideas bouncing around my head right now, about the kennels and my pond and the yard. My brain hurts from thinking of it, I have to put it down in a nice way and show my husband that I can do it.
On another note. I stopped eating meat, except for fish. And I'm about to cut out the fish. No more dairy, processed food, refined sugar, coffee creamer. Only healthy things. I've lost 11 lbs, since Boxing Day! Thats pretty good and I feel great!
But, its come at a price. I've become a bit of a food freak, so sorry if I get weird about food.
Anyway! Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a great day and a great weekend, in case I don't make it back for a while.
