chores

Woke up got out of bed, neglected to drag a comb across my head.

This morning I didn't even need to check the rain gauge as I could tell it hadn't rained overnight, so first thing I watered the nursery. Most of the pots were still pretty moist, but I wanted to give the new bamboo divisions a hit as they are in that critical phase.
Feeding the animals. First off I went after some fodder for the two goats. I think I took a bundle of cassava from the patch next to the house, as I headed in that direction after the nursery, and kept going toward the outhouse when I realised there was a wwoofer in the toilet. Also pruned some guave on the way. Later, whilst taking care of chickens I took off some side branches of some sesbania sesbans by the little pond in the garden, and some nearby pidgeon peas. It was a nice "harvest is your maintenance" sort of moment, as the branches were obstructing the pathway.
I fed the chooks grain. There are four different flocks of poultry right now. Two mobile tractors of chickens, and one stationary house with rotational pens, plus the ducks. So, for each flock I did things like make sure they had clean fresh water. For the stationary flock I fiddled around and found some screen to over a barrel to catch water from their roof so that I don't have to carry the drinking vessel outside every time it needs to be filled. For the other chickens who are tractorinng between the nursery and the barn, I found a hose end so I can not walk back and forward... I threw a little more straw into the main chicken yard and wasted a bit of time trying to pounce on a free ranging drake who would have gone in the pot if I'd been a bit quicker.
All told, I was finished with the animals in about an hour.
'Til lunch then I worked on the new swale which will pick up runoff from the driveway and hopefully divert the bog that is the area immediately outside the barn.

Justin has a recurring hockey injury so he has been laid up for a few days.
Tim has done some weeding in the pinto patch he and Justin and I put in on the "annoying berm", cracked coconuts for human and animal consumption, gathered guavas for animals, and done some weedwhacking on the trails where I would normally use the lawn mower, but it is broken right now.

Lorinda has been working the solar cookers, making banana breads and muffins, coconut, pumpkin & macadamia pies. And readin Lichen bookies.