Adventures In Homesteading (Day 613)
@jacobpeacock
Posted 6d ago · 5 min read
Hello Everyone!
Missing the writing mark, Getting some supplies, The handy wagon, A little hiking & A rooster on the mend!
Alright, I wound up going to sleep early last night instead of doing any writing... and told myself that I would do it when I woke up again. Knowing that it would be a gamble on whether I woke up after a few hours (or in the morning) did not make much difference to me... because I was too exhausted to worry about it.
Basically, I took a nap late in the day but only slept for a few minutes... before waking back up, feeling super hungry and then deciding to order some supplies. I could have gone longer without supplies... but having mainly been eating canned goods lately... I really needed something else because the sodium (from the canned food) was starting to get to me.
Since there was no way I was going to try carrying all the groceries (and jugs of drinking water) from the top of the driveway to the studio with my foot injury... I would need the wagon. Which meant that I had to get the rainwater bailed out of it, dry it out... and then haul it to the top of the hill before the delivery driver arrived.
Getting my sore foot into my muck boot sure did not feel all that awesome... but once the boot was actually on... walking around was not too difficult (or painful) as long as I was not on an incline... which pretty much everything here is on! Aside from lugging the wagon up and down the hill, the tricky part was bailing the water out of it into a small rainwater barrel... because I had to keep hiking back and forth between the two with the bowl I was using as a bail.
Thankfully the wagon has those 'side walls' on it... and its handle is setup the way that it is (to make it easy to steer on a slope) because once I had it full of groceries... I was able to let the wagon (with the groceries in it) push against me... as I slowly ambled down the driveway. It worked out rather well doing that particular maneuver... but every other step (where I had to put weight on my injured foot) caused a shooting pain... and had I not been able to lean on the wagon... I would have undoubtedly lost control of it.
Anyways, I did not really get much done earlier in the day... but I did force myself to hike around a little bit to take in the scenery, get some sunshine and see what all is growing around the place. I was also hoping to maybe 'walk it off' some with my foot injury... but I am unsure how successful that I was with that... regardless of ending my walks the moment that my foot gave me any real trouble as far as 'intense' pain goes.
Late in the afternoon, once I knew that I could walk around without too much hassle... I moved the silkie rooster from the dog crate in the studio to the dog yard where the chicken coop is. After feeding him all those walnuts, he made quite the recovery... and after around twelve hours of him 'looking better' I decided that it was best to see how he would do outdoors again.
I did have some concerns about him being weak... and not being able to defend himself against predators (or have the wherewithal to notice a nearby bird of prey) so I made sure that Emily the hen was in the dog yard when I put him in there. It was a bit of a gamble on whether he would attack her (like he has before) but I figured that she could defend herself just fine and would protect him to some degree or another regardless of his rude behavior.
As it turns out, his recent experiences seem to have given him a small 'attitude adjustment' because he was not super interested in doing more than making some 'conversational' noises at her. She of course, was not having it at all... gave him a wide berth and (from what I could tell) is not going to forget how much he has harassed her in the past.
On a different note, I continued my writing routine of working on that fictional material and although I did not get a whole lot more written... I did get the bulk of the material edited and proofread again. As I am writing on that material, I am also breaking it up into chapters to make the editing a little less daunting... and to make it easier to 'fill in' (or expand upon) different parts of the story... without having to do so inside one large unbroken body of text.
All the extra writing does not 'fill the void' of wanting to be gathering soil, planting stuff and generally continuing my gardening endeavors... but it has been good for my overall morale. Which is probably going to keep improving as I get all my new writing routines dialed in, keep squeezing in a few hikes each day and (once this foot heals) doing a bunch of projects that need doing while the weather is fair.
Well, I think that I am going to wrap this up and get on with the editing and posting phase of things. I hope that everyone is doing well. Ta ta for now.
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