It was hot today and when I got home I thought I’d better check in with everybody. It seems like forever since I spent time with the farm animals and well tonight I took the time.
Daryl was baling straw late this afternoon, so I was pretty pumped that we would actually get some straw bales to use in the chicken coop. But no such luck, he made them into round bales instead. But he did bring home a little scrub bale that I can use to bed the chickens. 
And that’s exactly what I did. The only bad part of having this bale in the shed is that I’ve caught the chickens just ripping it apart and making a mess in the shed… and well all through the yard to be honest. I’m sure that this won’t be staying here long!
Now I have no idea if the chickens will like the new bedding that I put in the coop tonight because my chickens really don’t handle change very well. Can you see it in their faces? 🙂
What I wanted to do with the straw was to bed down their boxes so they would have a place to lay their eggs on a nice soft spot. 
I guess we’ll see how well they do by tomorrow if they like it or not.
While I was in the coop I could see that the garden had some nice red cherry tomatoes to be picked. And guess who LOVES cherry tomatoes? If you guessed the chickens you were right! 
Next on my list was to see how the cows were doing. Even though the apples on our trees are really small – the cows don’t care. They are almost like little appetizers for them. I literally was laughing out loud in the cow yard because Scarlet wouldn’t leave me alone and is totally obsessed with these apples. She is like a cow on crack – other than the crack part is really just apples. I tried to get a picture of the cows, but they kept licking me and I was getting pretty slimed before it was all over so I gave up on trying to get a good photo op of them.
I was a little concerned tonight why No Ears wouldn’t come by me though. This is so not like her and she has me a little worried. I hope I’m not being over dramatic about the situation.
And finally after giving the dogs a good belly rubbing and a huge hunk of summer sausage to each of them, I spent the rest of the night watering the flowers. And while I was out there, right behind where our windmill is, I could see the space station going across the sky.
So now it was time for bed and while I was trying to get to sleep I mentioned to Daryl that No Ears acted kinda funny tonight and I wasn’t sure what was going on. Then he mentioned that he thought that she acted kinda funny these past couple of days. WHAT?? And now you think I’m going to get any sleep? I’ll check on her in the morning but until then – it’s going to be a very long night!