Friday morning I found that *something* had got into the coop where the young turkey poults were and killed every last one of them. I am so mad I could spit blood. I put a live trap in there, but of course I have caught nothing.
Friday evening I picked up my two grand daughters. On Saturday the kitchen sink was STILL not fixed, so they spent several hours under the house with their Grumps trying to find out why. To no avail. We are going to have to cut a chunk of pipe out and replace it, as the only piece the clog could be in doesn't have a clean-out on it. We spent Saturday afternoon in the hoop house planting brussels sprouts and broccoli plants and starting on raking the beds level.
In the evening we went to see the musical Mama Mia! at the Tulsa PAC. I had scored GREAT seats - front row mezzanine - so great view of everything. It was a wonderful performance. A couple of less than perfect spots but overall a contagiously joyous event. The girls enjoyed themselves tremendously. We ended the evening at Fridays - where there was $5 off the Jack Daniels meals, so it was a "Jack Daniels kind of night". Mmmm... yummy.
Sunday we were up bright and... well, bright anyway. I was supposed to take a livestock guardian dog to a friend, but she knew something was going on and refused to be caught. I swear she was laughing at my antics. I worked at it for a couple of hours, but then had to leave because I was going to take the girls home and help butcher the remaining meat chickens. Fate was in one of her moods, because one of the van tires had a blow out on the way. Fortunately there was no traffic at that time, so we did no worse than skid across a couple of lanes before I got us onto the shoulder. We were, however, an hours drive away from Mr Wonderful Mechanic (aka my son in law Jim) so we had to sit and wait till he got there. Now - I am not helpless, I can change a tire. But the lug nuts were on too tight for me to get off. Jim managed them easily, then we went off the the shop where he found me a new tire and put that on for me - thanks, Jim! So the chickens got a reprieve for now.
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