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Jan. 4th, 2012 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuI am primarily spending my free time reading fanfiction and watching TV the last few days. Watching TV when I'm tired and have no brain, and fanfiction when I'm more awake. I found a prolific, good fanfiction author so naturally now I'm going through her stuff and reading it. I don't always agree with her characterization (then again, do I ever entirely agree with characterization? Not often when it comes to my OTP, though it does happen on occasion) but her writing is good and engaging and there's lots of it so I'm content. Makes me want to write more. I want to write and post some one-shots one of these days.
I fixed up the chicken coops so they're safer now! They're looking nice and I feel much better now because I think I may have gotten predator control pretty well squared away, at least for now. The only thing that could still use some work is protection against digging predators, but thankfully I haven't had problems with digging predators. The only one is the one skunk, but he only ever eats a few eggs if he does get in, and he hasn't gotten in in a long while anyway because I have him stumped with putting the rake or shovel into the hole he likes to go in.
I also moved all of the ducks so now the ten of them are in my 10' x 20' enclosure together. The bantam ducks think this is fantastic and threw a massive party to celebrate. They have two "ponds" to choose from, three houses, and seem to do fine with the large ducks. The guinea fowl chase them around some but the bantam ducks can fly and are much more agile than the guineas.
I took in another injured "hen," but said "hen" turned out to be a rooster. I decided to take him anyway, I just couldn't turn him away. He looks like a barred rock cross rooster? Poor guy has a crossbeak and one missing eye (old injury) and he was found on the side of the road. I figure he can hang with the ducks and guineas for now. If he's able to be relatively content in there, he can stay, otherwise I'll have to try and find him a home (difficult for roosters, not to mention roosters with issues) or I'll have to figure out somewhere else to put him on my property. He's a standard-sized bird, probably at least six pounds, so there's no way he can go in with bantam hens. He would crush them. He seems chill, though.
Henny-Penny isn't looking good lately. She's droopy and listless, and her comb, face, and wattles are all pale. She doesn't have mycoplasma, though, so I don't know what I can do for her. I keep picking her up and looking at her, trying to think of some way to help her, but I just can't figure out what could be causing it. She is a laying breed bird (patridge rock) who is a few years old, so she could have cancer or something like that. Laying breeds frequently get reproductive cancers, which is a big reason why I don't keep many of them.
Won three out of four SatoKasu doujin I was after on Y!J. I fought fairly hard for the fourth one, seeing as it's by an artist I really like, but the Japanese bidder clearly really wanted it. When it hit $100+, I could not justify that at all for something that is 20-something pages. Just not worth it. But I'm happy I won the three I did, and hopefully the fourth one will pop up again! It just came out so there's hope. :)
My lips have been dry lately! So dry that now there's a sore. I'm trying to put chapstick on more but I'm so forgetful. My left hand also hurts a little, I'm not sure why.
That's the extent of my life lately. I could whine about minor dumb things I've done at work (overall I have been excellently productive and got completely caught up with paperwork), but I'm trying to be more positive lately and I feel like whining about little things just allows me to dwell on them longer than they deserve.
I have the next three days off, so I intend to do things on my list of things to do, as well as relax.
Back to fanfiction! Again.
I fixed up the chicken coops so they're safer now! They're looking nice and I feel much better now because I think I may have gotten predator control pretty well squared away, at least for now. The only thing that could still use some work is protection against digging predators, but thankfully I haven't had problems with digging predators. The only one is the one skunk, but he only ever eats a few eggs if he does get in, and he hasn't gotten in in a long while anyway because I have him stumped with putting the rake or shovel into the hole he likes to go in.
I also moved all of the ducks so now the ten of them are in my 10' x 20' enclosure together. The bantam ducks think this is fantastic and threw a massive party to celebrate. They have two "ponds" to choose from, three houses, and seem to do fine with the large ducks. The guinea fowl chase them around some but the bantam ducks can fly and are much more agile than the guineas.
I took in another injured "hen," but said "hen" turned out to be a rooster. I decided to take him anyway, I just couldn't turn him away. He looks like a barred rock cross rooster? Poor guy has a crossbeak and one missing eye (old injury) and he was found on the side of the road. I figure he can hang with the ducks and guineas for now. If he's able to be relatively content in there, he can stay, otherwise I'll have to try and find him a home (difficult for roosters, not to mention roosters with issues) or I'll have to figure out somewhere else to put him on my property. He's a standard-sized bird, probably at least six pounds, so there's no way he can go in with bantam hens. He would crush them. He seems chill, though.
Henny-Penny isn't looking good lately. She's droopy and listless, and her comb, face, and wattles are all pale. She doesn't have mycoplasma, though, so I don't know what I can do for her. I keep picking her up and looking at her, trying to think of some way to help her, but I just can't figure out what could be causing it. She is a laying breed bird (patridge rock) who is a few years old, so she could have cancer or something like that. Laying breeds frequently get reproductive cancers, which is a big reason why I don't keep many of them.
Won three out of four SatoKasu doujin I was after on Y!J. I fought fairly hard for the fourth one, seeing as it's by an artist I really like, but the Japanese bidder clearly really wanted it. When it hit $100+, I could not justify that at all for something that is 20-something pages. Just not worth it. But I'm happy I won the three I did, and hopefully the fourth one will pop up again! It just came out so there's hope. :)
My lips have been dry lately! So dry that now there's a sore. I'm trying to put chapstick on more but I'm so forgetful. My left hand also hurts a little, I'm not sure why.
That's the extent of my life lately. I could whine about minor dumb things I've done at work (overall I have been excellently productive and got completely caught up with paperwork), but I'm trying to be more positive lately and I feel like whining about little things just allows me to dwell on them longer than they deserve.
I have the next three days off, so I intend to do things on my list of things to do, as well as relax.
Back to fanfiction! Again.
