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power outage
by , 06-24-2008 at 02:51 PM (1284 Views)
We had such a storm Sunday night. I’ve been without power for the past couple of days. In the country there is no water when there is no electricity. I really like electricity!
I’ve been mudding my drywall during out outage, but now I have to get cleaned up and head to town. Everything in the fridge is ruined and we have a potluck each night for VBS this week.
I haven’t been going to the grocery store for the past month or two. I can’t remember if I had mentioned that. It’s been really great. I have my husband stop for milk or flour and we eat what we have in the pantry, deep freeze, and garden. We have actually been having better meals than we’ve had in a while.
My garden is doing well enough, but I wish we were getting more out of it. I put it out late and regret it. I’m still praying that I’ll wake up and my garden will have just exploded in veggies. It’s so disappointing to walk out there and not pick something.
One more thing about the power being out. I had just hatched some eggs. I incubated 18, hatched five, and three have survived. A baby chick has to be kept warm so we had a heat lamp on them out in the part of the house that‘s under construction. The past couple of days have been really chilly so I decided I better bring in a hen to keep them warm. I have this one hen that is so mean- we call her the mean momma. She always wants to sit and I always have to fight her for her eggs. I brought her in and she’s taking very good care of the little babies. It’s so funny- some mother hens are so nice and they talk sweet and gather their babies up but this hen is so mean even to the chicks. She uses a grouchy sound with them and when they don’t mind her she pecks them. Some say ‘oh come here baby and I’ll warm you up’ this one says ‘get over here right now or I’m gonna peck you!’ I’ve found that baby chicks are a lot like preschoolers, roosters are a lot like men, and hens are a lot like women.
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