All's Well That Ends Well

L had a rough night last night. She hurt her eye somehow (still can't get a straight story on what actually happened), and cried every 10 or 15 minutes for 5 hours straight. This morning, her eye was still red and swollen and the crying persisted. So...we did the only reasonable thing: we left her end of the school year picnic in the park early, and spent an hour and 2o minutes at the Eye Doctor's office. It ends up that she got a tiny scratch on her eye, and after some anesthetic drops and steroid drops, she is a different little girl tonight!

The unexpected Dr. appointment threw our schedule for a bit of a loop today. When we arrived home at 3:00 this afternoon, I thought I'd get J started on some of her lessons, and then get the laundry hung out on the line. Unfortunately, when we stopped at the coop to check on the hens, we found that another one bit the dust sometime between last evening and this afternoon.

So...after starting J on her lessons, I hung out the wash, started another lesson, put the chickens in the garden, started another lesson, hosed out the coop (you get the picture). I sprayed the entire thing down with bathroom disinfectant twice, then left everything open to get purified by the warm May sun.

The hens are all safely back in their lemon-fresh home, with clean nesting material, water and food.

We finished all of J's lessons just minutes after JP returned home from work right before 6 PM.

The unfortunate hen is now 6 feet under out in the woods (well, more like 2 feet under).

I've had a shower. (There's nothing like potentially lethal bird germs and lemony antiseptic bathroom spray to make one want a thorough shower!)

I just finished watching last night's episode of Glee as JP popped in to kiss me goodnight. I must take the dog out one last time, and check on the hens before heading to bed myself.

Oh...and after learning that our blue crayfish was the burrowing sort, we released him last weekend on a mossy bank near our spring. He dug into the bank so fast, that I couldn't even get the camera turned on fast enough to photo-document his get away!

So here's to happy endings, clean hair, and loose ends all tied up! Sweet dreams all!