Total Eclipse of the Sun and more Fun....
Monday morning very early, Dave and I looked at the weather and decided we were going to head to a small town in Missouri in the path of totality to watch the Eclipse. It was 5-hour drive away from us, and we were loaded up and excited for the road trip. The drive was going well, I was gabbing away and keeping Hub entertained with stories I have probably told him a time or two. We were making great time and were about an hour ahead when all the sudden we started losing time, and traffic started picking up, slowly at first till we were pretty much bumper to bumper. It was then we realized we weren't the only folks who had decided to take off work and go to see this phenomenon. Well shoot! On to plan B, we had to get on our phones and look for a different city in that line of totality to head to, because we were running out of time and one much closer meant a much shorter eclipse time, but we would take what we could get. The first town could get to was Red Bud Illinois, that had about a minute total eclipse time and if we made it there in good time we would just keep heading down to a town with a longer time. We finally ended up in Chester, Illinois which is on the bluff of the Mississippi and the home of Popeye the Sailor man. Everything was crowded, all the gas stations and people were parked everywhere so we decided to go into a cemetery to park and eat lunch while waiting for the shenanigans to begin. It was a great spot too, with crows flying around it was definitely a spooky feel, once the sun was covered in full the sky looked purplish and the eclipse lasted about 3 minutes. I loved the whole thing and the next one I think we should do is on Ciara's birthday on 8/12/2045.
Speaking of Ciara, she made it home from West Virginia Monday night and has been settling back in around home. Ciara has made us some wonderful grub! Yesterday she spent many hours in the kitchen making us a homemade vegan Lasagna dinner and salad that was so wonderful we are spoilt rotten!
This week... I am finishing up my Chick Brooder for my 15 babies arriving on Friday. I need to figure something to keep the cat out of it. I have everything else figured out for them and am ready to experience this part of being a Chicken Mom.
My 3 existing chicks are happy it is warm again and are free ranging now. I found that my girl Brownie has Scaling mites in her legs, so I had to dip all three hen's legs in cooking oil last night when they were going to bed. I know it sounds weird, why you do that is to coat the legs and smother the mites, then do it again 10 days later when their eggs hatch to smother the new mites. It is very contagious to the chickens, so I treat all of them. I will get their coup cleaned again and treated with DE and Ashes
Hub and I planted potato's out in the Garden yesterday. All of our indoor plantings are getting big. I think we should be able to plant them outside in the next couple weeks. Ciara and I are going to start some flowers from seeds to plant outside this week.
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