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January Cure 2016 Assignment 2- Make a Project List and Chicken

04 Monday Jan 2016

Posted by Jean in General Farm Stuff, Home and other Repairs, January Cure 2016, Uncategorized

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No, I’m not going to make a chicken dinner from Her Royal Fowlness. I am thrilled to report that the chicken has left the building! After 3 days in the guest bathroom getting warm tub soaks, eating oatmeal, enjoying celery leaves, having bowls of chicken food and water all to herself and a warm cozy bed of fresh hay thrice daily, she had still not produced an egg. She was happy, she was perky at both ends and was deemed healthy enough to go back to the rest of the flock. I have no idea what was wrong with her. Maybe she just wanted a spa weekend. I do not know whether to be more disturbed by the fact that my finger had been applying Vasoline and Perparation H to a chicken’s egg plumbing or the fact that my finger had been applying said goo to a chicken’s egg plumbing for apparently no reason.

Today’s assignment was to go room to room and make a list of 3 to 5 items in each room that need cleaning, repair, de-cluttering and/or re-organizing. I’m happy to say that last year’s Cure really worked well in most places. As a result, there are only a few spots that need major work. My bedroom is still working well, as are my linen closet, cabinets, laundry room (yay! that was the biggie last year) and kitchen. A little de-cluttering will do in most spots. Mainly what I’m dealing with this year is stuff I need to take to Goodwill and too much furniture I don’t need, where I least need it, and not the right kind of furniture where I do need it. We have power tools, we can deal with this.

My Project List

Master Bedroom

de-clutter nightstands
sort clothes for donating
fold and put away lump of laundry on bed
declutter master bath counter

Kitchen

declutter buffet
organize baking cabinet
clean window sill
clean pot shelf

Dining area

stow Mom’s china
empty 2nd china cabinet
sell or donate china cabinets

Den area

Clean window sill
dust books
organize shelving for CDs, DvDs and games
dust
Sell or donate piano

Office

THE OFFICE
Yes the whole thing lol. That will be my big project as it just needs to be completely emptied of everything. I will keep one shelving unit and we will try to re-purpose wood and shelves for use building a bed and 10 to 15 feet of wall mounted counter space to serve as craft and computer desk. Last year I griped about THE OFFICE while my son and I fought the laundry room into submission. This year THE OFFICE gets it’s due.

Laundry room

Still working great just needs a quick sweep and wipe down

Guest Bath

Now that the freeloading chicken is no longer in residence there, a quick sweep and tidy will do.

(Note: My finger has received hundreds of deep cleanings and sterilizations since Friday so I have removed that from my list although I am still slightly afraid of it.)

 

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January 2016 Cure Assignment 1

01 Friday Jan 2016

Posted by Jean in General Farm Stuff, January Cure 2016, Uncategorized

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Momma said there’d be days like this… well no actually, she didn’t. There is no way in my Momma or Grandmomma’s wildest imaginations they could have envisioned a day where I’d have a chicken soaking in a warm bathtub rubbing Vaseline on her egg production *facilities*. I told friends earlier that as long as she doesn’t request a glass of wine, bubble bath and candles I’ll deal with it.

I think she is egg bound, but I can feel no egg. That doesn’t necessarily mean she isn’t egg bound apparently, it just means the egg that may be stuck didn’t get stuck far enough along her plumbing to get hard. I know this is more than I ever wanted to know about chickens so I’m going to assume it’s more than you wanted to know and move along. Suffice to say, she has had two tub soaks, oatmeal laced with calcium and has been well lubricated with Vaseline. I did not want to go there. Now I wait and keep the house quiet so she will hopefully get this out of her system.

In the meantime all I can do today is read the posts from the other folks setting up their flowers, fruit bowls or fresh greenery, shuffling piles of stuff around, vacuuming, mopping and shuffling the piles of stuff back. All things I need to be doing. All things I was looking forward to. But no. I’ve been babysitting a down in the mouth chicken and twice had my finger where my finger should have never had to go. Thus, my New Years Resolution has become “Never get more chickens. Ever.” This will be my resolution for probably 8 years because chickens can live that long. However, if the other 5 freeloaders begin to lay, I can probably get 20.00 each for them and lemme tell you how tempting that is after today.

So, tomorrow, I have to get out and get hay which means I will be relatively close to a grocery, which means I will be able to pick up a small bouquet. If the hen hasn’t delivered by the time I get home, I’m cranking up the vacuum anyway. For the floors! Not as an aid to egg production!

chickenintub

Chicken having a nice warm soak. No bubbles, but she did get

a snack of oatmeal laced with calcium.

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