Week 21 - Rainy Weather

Well, May is motoring along toward June quite quickly.

I can't recall, and it really doesn't matter, if May is normally a rainy month here in southwest Missouri.  We have had some rain, mostly not enough to really measure, but enough to wet the ground and make it hard to mow!  John had this past week off and he spent it getting the chicken tractor ready for the 26 chicks that have been in the brooder for the last month.  They finally have enough feathers so that they can go outside for the next 8 or so weeks till it's time for them to go to Freezer Camp.  Here is their new home

John put all 25 of those chicks into the large dog kennel we have and transported them out to the tractor yesterday morning...they seem to be acclimating quite well.  Sometime this week, John will open the door to the chicken tractor during the day so they can roam inside the dog run- no, the dog doesn't go in there anymore . It's too hard for him to get back up the stairs to the deck door so he goes out the front and doesn't use the dog run at all.  The chickens now have a 100' by 100' run all to themselves!

This past week John also was able to mow the property for the first time...he found a baby turtle and brought it in to show me...isn't it cute?

We had several days where it rained sometime during the day and then the clouds were blown away by the end of the day....yesterday we had rain start sometime before sunrise...it stopped about 1:00 p.m. and the clouds blew off to the east and the sun came out.  We had some horrific winds and even some hail.  See?

It's only pea - sized but still it came down for about 10 minutes.  My local yarn shop is closed tomorrow while they assess the damage done to the roof by the wind and golf-ball sized hail they got!  

 Then about 6:00 the clouds began to form again while we were out to dinner...this is what we saw on our way home...

That's some wicked looking clouds!  They got so dark and menacing that I was sure we were in for some 'severe weather' but nothing came of it...really, nothing.  No rain, no wind, no hail....NOTHING!  

I had an alarm come on to the washer this morning...not really an alarm, just a light that we'd never seen...Upon research, it means that the washer needs to be self-cleaned.  Evidently this code goes on every 40 washes - for the record, it seems I've  ignored this little light since I bought the machine just about 4 years ago and have done many, many more than 40 loads since then. So, I read the instructions for doing a Self Clean cycle...pressed the buttons and find that the cycle takes 4 hours and 1 minute to complete.  Not a problem except that I hadn't completed the last 3 loads of laundry that MUST be done today so we can all go to work tomorrow in clean clothes.  So, here I sit, waiting for the washer to finish its Self Clean Cycle so I can complete the laundry for today. I will keep better eye on that little light on the washer but will not perform the self clean cycle until I've done the entire week's laundry next time!

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