Light breeze, warm blue skies. Alaska spring.
Neighborhood children are out playing, very nice to see. Dogs get wound up but that’s okay.
Installed the rear rack on the bike, also the bell. Added lubrication to the chain. Tomorrow Scott and I are going to work with the dogs and see if our herding beasts can be conditioned to ignore the very exciting stimuli of spinning wheels and run alongside the bike instead. Today I am working on c/t for being in heeling position while I straddle the seat.
Erin Mckeown is playing in Palmer tonight. Haven’t heard her for several years, looking forward to good music and good company this evening.
Did a little raking out front. Scooper Troopers came out and picked up our slothful winter sins, and Tony Enterprises took away the stinky contents of our procrastinated trash cans (and the poo). I’ve been working on the chicken run a little at a time. It’s very wet and heavy and no fun at all.
The chickens are happily pecking and scratching in back. Yesterday Bing scrambed into the compost bin. He appeared to enjoy the elevated view of the yard. We haven’t added anything to the bin lately so it was no worse than the muddy yard. Kate helped herself to several eggs from the hen house. They Wyandotte’s (mean girls) chased Kate off the first egg she broke (pretty funny to see a 24 pound corgi chased away by a 6 pound chicken). She carefully took her next eggs farther away from the hens.
A good time was had by all.