out and about in the middle of the night!! and a shootin star

amazing for someone of my almost amish sensiblities

bernie got a road call at either 10 or 11pm last night
i am not sure of the time as i was snoring peacefully.........
next thing i knew.......
we are on the road going to new brunswick nj
now.....if you look on a map........
we are in stroudsburg pa
giver take
and new brunswick nj..........well that's really really far
even doing 90 the whole way down there

he had a medical coach break down and since the fleet has to roll....... so did we
he told me to stay home
but i told him
i sure as hell wouldn't sleep with him on the road

we got back at 2am
i did however see a shooting star and it was so very cool.....
bernie saw it too!

now the other thing that happened yesterday was one of our chickens dropped dead of a heart attack
one minute fine..... pecking at the scratch, doing her little chicken thing
the next minute dead as a door nail

bernie kept telling me she wasn't dead
i kept telling him she was
she was
she still is dead
she's now out back feeding the fox

when he tried to get her out of the pen the other chickens rushed him
they are nothing if not protective
and even though he's daddy..... they knew something was wrong and were protecting their sister

it most likely was a heart attack
chickens are sometimes prone to them
she wasn't even a year old
i didn't name this batch of pullets as i decided that when their laying life is up.... they will go into the pot
i also expected them to live 19 years that way

the ducks are fine
the cats more or less..... thaddeaus had a hair ball on my foot at 3am YESTERDAY morning
we aren't getting a whole hell of a lot of sleep around here lately

the babie budgies are funny and now like their veggies
and there is frost on my laundry on the line out back

that's my world in a nutshell

oh and i got the knitpicks andean chullo hat pattern so i intend on knitting that
i want the entire line of palette colors as i feel a lot of color knitting coming on
although my workday color knit hats are normally worsted as it seems so much warmer to me

i really need to hit the lotto
as i have a huge order to put into knitpicks
and you know about the farm/barn thing too
oye