Covid was a Welshman

So, my kids get a kick out of making movies. This one cracked me up... 😂

Around the House and Farm

 Sadly, the local "Columbus" town voted to remove the historical Christopher Columbus statue.  All that remains is a big block of cement.  This is all getting old. All they had to do was put a mask on him and all would have been just fine. 😆 I'm really, actually rather sick of the stupidity.

 Watching the slideshow of pictures from Galadriel and Celeborn's wedding/reception/honeymoon.

1. Marigold so happy to have Frodo home again.
2. Union soldier
3. Chacos - best suppoert in a shoe ever. Now if they would make a regular shoe with the same support... but they don't.

 Happy chicks.

 Turkey escapees

 My first gladiola!

 My dill has grown to great heights.

 Slowly but surely gaining produce.

Neowise comet

https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-comet-c2020-f3-neowise

 We went around a couple country blocks looking for a place to view the Neowise comet.

 We were able to see it, it was really neat!

 Then we got home and I noticed this.  Really. I tell you. There is just no end to the creativity (in laziness fashion)

 Then we went outside and discovered we could see the comet right out our back door. Of course it doesn't show in the pictures. The thing to the left is the moon. We also saw a satellite and many shooting stars (meteorites)

 A lovely woman stopped by and brought us a number of excess groceries . How sweet is that?

 One of my kids said my chicks are getting ugly. I don't think they are ugly!  They will get ugly, but I don't think they are yet... We sacrifice looks for tastiness.

 Fresh cucumbers from the garden make into quick pickles. Fresh seafood from the farmer's market (shrimp and frog legs), fresh basil pesto from the garden (the basil from the garden that is. Delish!

 Time to move chicks around. This crate will be used to get new layer hens. It is a great set up as we can bring our old layers and get $2/each and then pay $12 for each layer, which is ready to lay eggs.

 New waterer for the chicks.  There are little nipples that screw into the pipe and attached to a hose and do a large container for water. Much less mess.

 Making a new pen to move the 4=1/2 week old chicks out of the "duck shed" and move the 110 chicks that are 2 weeks old into the "duck shed".

 We use our old trampolines for shade for the meat birds. We are on our 5th trampoline in 13 or 14 years.... they get alot of use...

 Did you know turkeys can swim somewhat and enjoy a little water time?

 Samwise built a feeder :tent" to keep rain out of the feeders.

 moving into the new "house"

Civil War Reenactment

 By some hap chance I was looking for a needle in a haystack during Covid-1984, and stumbled across one that was only 1-1/2 hours from my house! So off 4 of us went. Bilbo and Kili dressed up for the occasion.

 There were even some old buildings to look at. At admissions, they gave the boys some papers to do a scavenger hunt. It was great as they had to learn about each item before the reenactor checked it off the list.

 These 3 ladies gave a great talk on women spies in the Civil War. Maybe I will find the paper on which I wrote some notes...

 giant Lincoln Logs

 The hospital station is one of our favorites, very interesting.   This poor man had gangrene.

 There was a sign that said for $1.00 you could touch the limbs. Well, who wouldn't want to do that? The man told me that the reason he charges $1.00 is because most moms just say "no". HAHA Well, we are hands-on homeschoolers, so naturally we want to touch the limbs.

 These bottles contained items we could smell. Some were nasty like "rotting flesh". Others weren't so bad like gangrene. And then were were other things they used to counter things like rotting flesh. Bromide was used to cure gangrene in case you were wondering.

 We even visited the confederates.

 This house was very interesting. So this side was the kitchen.

 This side was both a living room and a chicken pen. (no joke). Having just had our baby chicks on our front porch, I know that putting them in the living room really wasn't a good idea.

 Upstairs was the sleeping quarters

 Under the house they had their larger animals like the milk cow. Seriously.

 Grant gave a speech

 The thing hanging on the door knob was a slipper holder.

 Civil War songs

 A photo-op with Abe Lincoln and his union soldier

 The big battle (more of a skirmish)

 Complete with canon

 My leftie getting in on the action

 After the battle there was a surgery on a wounded soldier to remove a bullet (ball). But then it was discovered that his gut was cut clear open. Poor guy didn't make it, but had paid for his body to be shipped back so was able to get embalmed.