Two of the babies
Hi Folks,
A Rainbow Day today. Rain falling in bright sunlight. I am sure we have more rainbows here than any other place i have been.
We were invaded by tradespeople today all 2 of them. Keith who does everything and Francis the sparky. The renovation of the games room and barn into the community kitchen come bar come space is proceeding. This leaves a lot of ancillary work for the helpers. At the moment mainly filling in trenches and painting.
However the highlight of the day is we now have 6 baby chicks! Morphine spotted them today. Only one dud egg. I wonder how many would have hatched if we had left all 29 there. The following conversation is not verbatim,
Morphine: "I have given them all names of the helpers one is called Simon"
Simon: "Which one?"
Morphine: "The grey one"
Simon: "Very funny"
They were out and about but spent most of the time huddled under mum which is why there are only 2 in the picture above. I didn't want to traumatise them just to get a good shot. They got enough of a scare when Ilan picked them up and put them in a plastic crate with straw. I went back to where they had been removed from not knowing they had been moved and there were quite a few of mums feathers on the ground and no birds. I thought momentarily they had all been taken by eagles! The next few days will be interesting. As will their gender although we won't know that for a while.
We went to the cafe tonight and had the best pita pizzas so far. Phil has written down the recipe and says he is going to call it the Ellis. I am sure there is a joke there somewhere I just haven't thought of it yet.
Night Folks
Cheers Simon
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