....hard day today! we're in the middle of getting water & electrics to the chicken shed...the stand pipe is in which saves me quite an arduous journey with buckets twice a day, leaving trenches, very muddy trenches in front of the shed/barn. So today, the electrics were run across from the workshop to the shed, which meant more digging and our ground is full of huge rocks! So hubby's in the digger & I'm shifting the rocks as they emerge. Hubby decided in the middle of this to replace the ramp into his workshop which was crumbling. This meant shifting about 3 ton of sand and chippings to the cement mixer (why would they be next to each other, when you can shovel them twice?, unload, then reshovel sand, cement and chippings into the mixer to make the cement. We used rapid setting cement, which does what it says on the bag, usually starting to set before it reaches its destination, so we had to make it sloppy to make it last the working time! it slopped & splashed all over me, in my hair, my mouth....very nice! We made the step, puddied it and did that thing with the plank to level it....during all of this time, the chickens had been dodging the digger, running under the shovel and generally playing kamikaze with it, totally unfazed as worms were being unearthed left right & centre...just as the last bit of concrete was levelled, road runner (a very spritely hen) decided to go for a paddle in the rapidly setting concrete! Hubby got her out quickly and of course she legged it, covered in the concrete! He's not as agile as me, so I had to run around frantically trying to catch her to get the concrete off before it set her feathers and feet into some kind of contemporary sculpture! Two laps of the barn later, I practically rugby tackled her, and doused her in a bucket of water, holding her wings firmly while hubby washed her off! Not a happy chicken!
....a few minutes later I had all the chickens back in their coop, munching their corn, safely away from all concrete related projects..... x
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