Hm.............. Last night Mer & I were bored... so at about 15 to midnight we decided to go back to our house, get a stereo, popcorn, and hair dryer, to bring back here to the house we're sitting. The dogs miraculously didn't bark, and we snuck in and out without waking anyone (presumably). Mer tried to wake up Mom and failed, so she just sneaked into their room and stole the hair dryer. Thinking it would have been funny if we also stole Snooks, Tim's cocker spaniel. But we restrained ourselves and just made off with the planned things. Got back here and I wanted popcorn, but we couldn't find a lid to the pan. I tried putting a metal collander (sp?) over it, space helmet style, but kernels were still escaping. Tried a smaller lid, also unsuccessfully. Mer got a lot of uhm, weird pictures.

This morning we got up early with a call from "Carol" & then stayed up because of a dead chick. Dead either from heat exhaustion or maybe choking on food... Although it was cool out this morning and they had water. Mystery. We buried it on the edge of an unplanted part of the garden, put some weeds on it. "Rest in peace chicken." We have now put in a, er, bird bath for them but they aren't smart enough to get into the water and splash around.

Farm dramas! D. Becky and I have worked out a system to raise chickens and ride horses.