Chickens

We said goodbye to Bertha on Sunday. She got all the Forbidden Snacks, cuddles, sunshine, and dirt she wanted. I'm honored to have had her in my life and happy that she can rest easy without pain or discomfort.

Lion, our rooster, moved to my metamour's sister-in-law's flock of easter egger hens Monday night. I spent all Monday with him and even though we had a nice time I could tell he was already lonely. Now he has a rooster man job to do and another family that adores him :) We'll definitely visit, if nothing else to make friends with all their hens.

My wife pointed out that we actually gave a pet to a big farm upstate with lots of friends and space to run around and no phone service.

Unfortunately, this is the last regular chicken update for a while. We will definitely keep birds in the future, but we are going to wait until we move somewhere slightly more permanent than our rental. Life feels weird and empty without them. I'm such a different person than I was before we got them.

Everything else

I've spent so much time on chickens these last couple weeks that I've done basically nothing else. My wife and I have gotten some time in on the lathe making jewelry from scavenged oak tree branches and trunks she found in the woods behind our house. I made a nice round medallion for a necklace that I'll post pictures of when I get the finish on it, and maybe I'll do a post about some of the other stuff we've been making. Next in line is I think pushing one of my project cars into the basement so we can start fixing it up.