Slow day, dinner with the seniors, chicken catching, very windy

Work today seemed brutally slow. It was one of those days when you think a lot of time has passed but the clock told me than less than ten minutes had actually passed by. And it continued that way through the entire day…until just before we were packing up to go home. Then we got some lengthy and difficult calls that took us up to the minute the office closed for the day to resolve. Isn’t that the way it usually works out. The good thing was that just my boss and I were left in the office for the last hour but we were able to field the calls and get the clients the help they needed to close out their days also.

I was in a bit of a rush to get out of work on time because I was scheduled to meet Mama at the church so we could go to dinner with the seniors from our church. As it turned out, I got to the church about ten minutes before the pastor’s wife go there. I thought the bus would be waiting on me so I hustled to get there so I would not hold them up but Mama had told the pastor’s wife that I would be about fifteen minutes late so she thought she had that much time to finish her tasks before getting to the bus. We went to a Mexican restaurant in Boyd - one of the pastor’s favorite spots to go to eat. It is the restaurant of choice when missionaries and evangelists visit our church. It is good food but we prefer one of the Mexican restaurants in Bowie. None the less, it was fun. Mama and I split a meal because we knew neither of us could eat a full portion of food; and it saved us about $10.

When we got back to the church we went to the Lowe’s Market to see if they had any of the advertised hams left in the cooler. They did not so we went home, got changed to go chicken hunting at Victoria’s house and went through Chico to the little Lowe’s Market there. They had one ham left of the special they were running - today only. We got it and headed to the house. We had loaded up two cages, the step ladder and two Mag lights before we left the farm. It turned out that we did not need much lighting because the dusk-to-dawn light the power company installed when they hooked up to the house gave us lots of light even in the coop.

Once we were in position at the house we got the ladder into the coop and caught all but five chickens that will be taken to Brittany Wycoff for “processing”. We needed teh ladder since the chickens have always roosted in the rafters of the coop building. I guess they feel better being higher up. The five we left are both to appease Mama )she thinks they are the younger of the hens and still laying) and also little Alisa who wants her daddy to buy Victoria’s house to keep the flock from an untimely death. Maybe she won’t notice that ten hens are missing. Mama was fretting about the caught and caged hens were to be fed and watered for the few hours they have left to live but I think we can figure something out.

For now they are under a blanket in the bed of the truck. After all, it is going to get pretty cold tonight.