i'm baa-aack

for those of you who didn't know i've been gone for a few weeks, poop to you. for the rest of you, you'll be glad to know that i am the proud owner of a new monitor for my computer and i'm back online.

only lisa had any questions about the fur in the toilet, so only she gets to watch the amazing video which explains the phenomenon and which i will post tomorrow when my IT guy gets back from vacation.

here is a mystery: my ducks' eggs were disappearing from the nest. you know, the fertilized eggs that they were setting on. also, my chickens had quit laying. there has not been a fresh egg on the place for two weeks.

here is the solution: my husband found a five-foot long black snake actually curled up in the ducks' nest. it was growing sleek and fat on MY BABY DUCKS and my eggs. crapezoid! i was just grateful that he ran for the shovel this time instead of my good serrated bread knife, which is what he attacked the beast with last time, about three or four months ago.



by the way, that man and i have been married 39 years, today.

update: chicken science project

just wanted to let everyone know that my broody hen who was setting on duck eggs spent three or four days with her head down and her butt up on top of those big fat eggs. then she got disgusted and abandoned her duck eggs and grumbled on down the line to one of the other nesting boxes, and is now being broody there. what can i say? yet an other science project down the pipes.