@naturegirl5 believe me if i did i already would have!!! I hate seeing him lonely when all his friends have gotten married and are having kids...his last one just announced they're expecting in October...
but oh my.... yesterday was quite the adventure!!! So my son messaged and informed me he wanted chicken and dumplings and a vanilla cake...so i went over to the grocery store, got what was needed (because of course i needed chicken for that and i didn't have any in the freezer, i'd used the last i had a couple weeks ago), and right after that the excitement began...what excitement you might ask... well my neighbor D who has been a godsend during the cancer even while fighting her own sent a text saying "chicks on front porch" and i'm thinking "great after i just went to the store, that could have saved me a trip"...but oh my.... was i ever wrong!!!
i go out to the front porch and there were 5 baby chicks in a box with a waterer and feeder and bag of chick starter food....and all i can think of is "hubby is gonna have a meltdown" because EVERY time I've tried to get him to agree to letting me have chickens he's been a very firm no no no and no...well my neighbor D has known i wanted chickens ever since my best friends was killed by the bear that i took care of a couple of years ago.... So i'm thinking...what in the world am i gonna do, i need a cage for these.... so what does any mom do? i called my son in law who can Mcgyver anything and got him over and we were trying to figure out how to build something to keep them in away from the cats and dog and about 30 min later D shows up with their old rabbit pen and said i hope this works for them... it should til they get bigger (and i can see if i get to keep them once they're grown or they go to my older son who is wanting chickens on his homestead he's trying to build lol) so.....son in law wraps cage in chicken wire (which i conveniently had in the storage building) for a double layer of protection from cat paws and meanwhile i've baked a cake and got chicken cooking for chicken and dumplings etc...while he's still working on that, my birthday son and daughter show up to "be here when dad gets home to help do damage control" because they think its hilarious (aka want to see dad have meltdown over mom getting the chickens she wanted)
anyways hubby/dad arrives and isn't happy, he don't want chickens (don't like the noise), but eventually seemed to accept they are here...even went to rural king last night to get a heat lamp and wood chips for the cage and on the way asked if they were a quiet breed, and if they'd lay without a rooster and i explained yes they would but the eggs wouldn't be fertile, and they are silver laced wyandottes so not terribly loud and so forth...
So after we got back he got everything hooked up to HIS standards, added the wood chips (so i wouldn't make such a mess doing so) and so they are in my living room...my dog took up guard duty nipping at any cat that gets too close...(idk if he's protecting them as a guard dog or protecting HIS new "nuggets for later" but he can't get in the cage either so either way he's guarding them) but his whining is killing us lol and hubby was very surprised that when i put a blanket over the cage they quietened immediately...i explained to him it was same as getting dark and time to sleep...(he's a city boy, never been around chickens) and they are all chipper and happy this morning... so we'll see how it goes..
at least its give me something to focus on other than side effects of chemo lol and NO HICCUPS so it just PROVES that was what was causing them...
and that was yesterdays adventures in Day after chemo #2....