today is thursday

i got some sleep.
and i actually overslept getting up at 20 after 5!
i was in such a deep sleep that i thought bernie was still home.

today is the usual, ducks, chores, canning, harvest, dishes..... cooking and possibly doing some pizza dough ( but bernie had to knead it, i can't do that anymore, so i may wait to the weekend depending)

yesterday evening when doing chores i let the babies out to graze, the garden had to be watered but they are big enough now to graze outside the fence without too much worry
lilli was not happy nor was phoebe.
i picked up little bigfoot a few times, she isn't as nasty as she was, but she has to learn to come when she's called for me to pick her up, like the big girls do
malcom had to tell me all about it
he is my talker....... just like babette the chicken is my screamer....... malcom talks.
i am going to miss his peeping when his voice changes to the hiss sound
it may be my imagination but it seems even poindexter is down a peg since i clipped wings
i have to say poindexter is beautiful........ he is going to a farm here near town, him and may
they are beautiful birds
i so wish i could keep them but i don't have the pen space nor the time to do that much extra
if i could keep a drake pen without them fighting it would be fine but that won't happen so i have to cull
i believe that thumbprint/kevin is not going to last long, nor will he ever be a fertile drake in my opinion....... he'll always be a somewhat bumbling pet
malcom is going to be an ok drake i think....... not the quality of poindexter, but not the difficulty in handling either

i think that bigfoot is pretty and we may name her after my aunt fortuna.
that left a decision between prudence and may
we are keeping prudence as she seems more willing to bath
although at times she needs prudence as she likes to rile up the other ducks
 the stories are starting up again no?

i went yesterday with jen down to the lehigh valley, i think it was good for me
we passed bernie's new fleet
he'll be 40 mintues away when he locates there permanently......
i am still having lingering after problems from that adrenal crash thing. slightly shakey, still depressed.
i am going to sit later and knit i think but i have morning chores and a bunch of other things to do
i fully intend on keeping busy
besides as i went out for most of the day yesterday, i blew off some stuff that must be done today

and i am also trying to find the pictures for my nephew and sister in laws

today is september 2, i have to get another load of wood in and a tank of oil
plus 150 pounds of potatoes......then i think we are mostly set for winter

ok everyone ( and thank you so muck vicki for your sweet comment) i hope to have happier and funnier stories again soon, plus drawings over the winter