Bump in the night

After taking the day off from my job yesterday to deal with everything at home, it was back to work today! I got an early start and left in darkness, and didn’t notice that I had passed our barn crew on my way. Gary didn’t realize the crew had arrived so early as well, and startled them as he rounded the corner of the house in darkness as he did chores.

Even in the darkness of the morning, they got right to work. All that was left to do was put up the metal siding.

Gary called me at work at 10:00a.m. to report they were done and gone. He told me that he opened the barn so the turkeys could be outside as the crew packed up and loaded their trailer. As the crew sat warming up their truck, my youngest (and most annoying friendly) turkey flew to the roof of their job trailer and rode it all the way to the bottom of the driveway. She flew off when they reached the road. As Gary and I spoke on the phone, I could hear her coming up the drive, atlking the whole time about her trip. The crew must have gotten a kick out of that. They did end up leaving with a male muscovy and a rooster, but these were on purpose.

The site is a mudhole right now which makes the ducks pretty happy. Gary shovelled 2.5 tons of gravel into the biggest holes so we could start parking a tractor in there right away.

The door company will come in a week or so to mount the overhead doors. Gary can’t wait since the doors will keep the turkeys out. The warm weather is making them act nuttier than usual. The chickens and ducks feel it too. I am collecting more and more eggs every day which is good since it’s been a while since we have been able to keep up with customer demands. The ducks are almost acting like they will begin laying soon as well. But the pregnant goats in our old barn continue to hold on to their babies inside, and look ready to explode.