Preparing for the days after

I think no matter which side of the political aisle you sit on, we will all be glad when tomorrow is over and done with. Come what may, I think dh and I are as ready as we can be, for ourselves, here at our little dot on the map. The chest freezer acquired last spring is much fuller now (and more organized thanks to my new bins). The pantry shelves are full. I picked up a big grocery order on Saturday, with more extras to have on hand. I have 3 months of dog food on hand. Tomorrow we are going to run into town and fill the car up with gas, as well as dh needs to fill up his gas cans (he uses for lawn mowers and quad for snow plowing). Other than that we are just praying for this country.

Weather today and tomorrow is 60 degrees! Quite the change from a week ago, LOL. It's still freezing overnight, but at least the days have been sunny, nice and warm. Egg production is kind of all over the board, haha. Some days I still get 4 eggs (Friday and Saturday), some days 3 and some days only 2. DH messed up that new heated waterer even more! Geez. He kept saying he thinks it's dumb that they fill from the bottom and then you have to flip it over. Well, it's designed that way because of how it works for the water to flow into the bottom part, LOL. So, what does he do? He cuts a hole into the top of the waterer, so he can fill it that way. Then realizes that doesn't work.......well, it will  work if the water fills in really fast (like from outside pump - that I can't use now that it's winter...). He also doesn't like the fact that it's a combination of plastic and heated parts. So, I think I am going to now just buy the metal waterer and the metal heating base (that is what my friend in town says she uses). The heated base does appear to have a long plug in cord. Not like the stupid 15" cord this plastic one came with and started this whole mess.

Starting out Monday with some of my same complaints from last week - a dog barking. Though it woke dh up again, at least he didn't stay barking. Neighbors are trying again to address the issue. The problem is they now only have one bark collar that works. If they put it on the main barker, their other male dog roughs and plays and chews it up (which is what happened to the other working one they had). Since it was their female dog who was barking all week (she doesn't usually bark) they are putting the working one on her today to see. Of course it was one of the boy dogs barking this morning. And another request for a purchase order, with no ship to address, LOL

I got 2 of my sketches framed and hung up in our master bathroom. I'm going to get a few more frames. I am going to hang 2 more in the bathroom - one over tub and one over toilet. Another I am going to put in the upstairs bathroom. I just need to get some more frames.

I was in the chicken coop yesterday afternoon, just trying to do a little housekeeping. Just trying to scoop the poop droppings below where they sleep into the covered bucket I use for that (in between full cleanings). The chickens were not cooperating, LOL. They had to be right where I was trying to reach past. I had moved aside their feeder, off the blocks, so I could reach over into the corner of the coop but they were all in the way. Finally I just set their feeder down outside where they walk around and they all went back down the ramp, haha.

I'm glad I only have 4 to clean up after ;)