This section of the blog is for daily life, rambling confessions and observations about the world we live in. Today mine is a complaint, a whine? It’s 6 am and I was planning on sleeping in a little bit. I was up late last night working on our farmers market website (new job, I am now the assistant manager/manager of promotions for the La Grande Farmers Market, I had been on the board for years but this is new and fun!) So where was I? Oh right, sleeping.
Well, I was until I heard stressed baby turkeys under my window. They had escaped the rabbit room in the barn where they had been staying until they were just a little bigger and could go in the pasture with the chickens. So I sleepily started leading them back to the barn and I noticed the ducks were in my koi pond. I love my little koi pond and I do not love these ducks, my Mom gave them to me because she had too many, and as I was fuming about that I noticed my favorite rabbit was missing.
Okay here is my complaint, I have good solid fencing, it was made to keep Nigerian goats in, and If you haven’t had Nigerians they are no joke at escaping fencing. We have good cages and secure latches so why does this happen? Because the world doesn’t want to be locked up and homesteading is never organized. Fencing, caging and securing are against everything an animal wants. It doesn’t matter if I am trying to protect them from predators or the neighbor’s dog, their instinct is to escape…Fine but please do it on a morning where I didn’t get only 5 hours of sleep?! Right, forgot about that homesteading law too, if it’s going to happen it will happen at the most inconvenient time.
Now that the turkeys are back to their pen, the rabbit has been found and the ducks chased to the creek, I am going to drink some coffee and enjoy being up early, and watch the gorgeous way the sun shines through the new leaves on the trees. And then I am going to call and wake up April in Alaska because that’s only fair and that’s what sisters are for.
Lol. Great post!