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2019 Things

12/21/2019

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Not a lot to report from 2019.  Ilah the cat continued to grow and thrive.  Studio work continued at a snail's pace.  We had a couple visits from T's family.  I visited brother A at the NAMM show in January.
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One of our chickens, Mr T (aka Misty, aka the Ninja Chicken who loved to jump up on top of the coop at night) got sick around late 2017 and eventually died.  As we were down to two, we decided to add another two and try for four.  We've never been able to keep four for some reason, it always seemed to settle at three.

In any case, we picked a pair of new pullets from Craigslist, around spring of 2018.  During the quarantine period, where we had the new ones staying in a temporary (and less secure) pen, a raccoon wandered in one night and got a hold of one of them.  She had to be put down in what was a very rough night.  The other chicken survived but was pretty traumatized.  She was already quite jumpy and nervous to begin with.  So we went right back and got another one.  Finally we were able to put the flock together and had our four.  They stayed together for over a year, producing many eggs -- almost too many for us.

The jumpy one was an Easter Egger, known for laying colored eggs.  They also have "beards".  The one who died and was replaced were Black Sexlinks.
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The Black Sexlink thrived for well over a year and suddenly got sick and died during the summer.  So we are currently back down to three -- Rocky, Apollo and Easter Egger.  They get along OK but EE is definitely at the bottom of the pecking order and gets mildly picked on once in a while, sad to say.

Here's one little project that we're happy to see completed.  A pot hanger for the kitchen, freeing up more space.  It was an exercise in patience and geometry.
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