Out With The Old...

It was time to say goodbye to the foster chickens. Boy, that time just flew by. I can't believe our babies are already six weeks old (actually, Sunday will be be six weeks) and we've had those roosters since August (or was it September?). Our friends came and picked up their chickens tonight, to go get butchered tomorrow morning. Several families are all sending various fowl to get butchered tomorrow. Lots of roosters, a few hens, and even some turkeys are going to have a very bad day tomorrow. Kenzie was a little sad about sending off her favorite one (he may be back, in the form of a chicken dinner, since our friends said they'd send us some in appreciation for helping to raise them), but now she's got fifteen new ones to take care of, including Hawkface and Nugget, who took right to his new home in the coop. He took over the top perch as soon as we put him in.

Kenzie and I took advantage of this most gorgeous day of almost 70^oF to clean the coop. We started the day off at 6 AM with a father/daughter sunrise walk. She got up, as usual, to take care of the chickens, and I told her I'd get up early so we could go for the walk. Now, the rest of the kids, having heard about it, all (except Connor) want to get up at 6 AM to go for a walk. We'll see how that works tomorrow. I really hope they all forget, and sleep in. I need to actually get some exercise without corralling all the kids that early in the morning.

I can't believe how nice the weather was today; and it's supposed to be better tomorrow. I sense a field trip coming on, maybe to the Veterans' Day ceremony down in Centreville. It will be too nice to get much school work done, that's for sure.