Life is busy, as usual.

Household matters, work, frantically trying to get up to speed on yard stuff before we get too far into Spring....

Got a half-dozen duck eggs in the eggy-go-round; at some point in the countdown, I guess I'm supposed to candle them and see if there's anything going on.  The contraption does seem to do an OK job of keeping conditions very very warm and very damp (as the song doesn't quite have it).

Rain on the forecast again tomorrow; my previous attempts at providing shelter for the ducks' pellet feeder didn't turn out well, and I don't have time to do a proper job of building a ran-and-wind-proof shelter, so I guess I'm back to trying to put a sheet-aluminum skirt on the table-looking thing that used to be the chickens' sun shelter.  Last attempt at that didn't work very well, and scared the ducks.

Got things sprouting in the basement; sometime soon, I need to thin the tomato seedlings.

Southmoon's health remains not-so-great, but at least she's nowhere near as sickly as she was last Summer.

Ah, well.  Time to give the chickens their salad scraps, then, in a little while, move them to the ducks' day pen while I clean the coops.  Looks like the wind isn't supposed to get too bad this afternoon.  Tomorrow's supposed to get rainy, so this is the day for overdue coop-cleaning.

Also, I gotta finish editing a tech document that was a few years out of date, incomplete, and meant for internal consumption; it's mostly updated now, but needs a few extras to make it more customer-facing (like, some block diagrams).

Comments

[Rob]

You're not far enough north to get a mud season are you? When the frost went out and all the mud disappeared was always a good part of Spring.
That was even better after we moved :-)

[Eric Wilner]

We don't normally get a mud season. This year, we're having an early Spring, so suddenly the lawn needs moving and it's only half past March. Not much mud except for the chicken run and the tilled fields.

[Rob]

Mud season came in Minnesota because the ground would freeze (however deep), come warmer weather the top would thaw out but with the bottom still frozen the there was no place for the liquid to go so the gravel roads were mud.
That first year I watched a Schwan's truck churn his way up our road with his rear duals about buried, that was it for the road until the frost went out. FWIW if the school bus couldn't pick up the kids the road was fixed next year (take down the trees so the sun could hit it, ditches on both sides so the water had somewhere to go and raise & crown the road.)

[Rob]

Ever get the oven?

[Eric Wilner]

Not yet. Been one crisis after another, and no time to get organized to deal with any sort of project requiring organization and coherent work. (Or, rather, such coherent work time as I have has been going to work-type work.)