Another Not Too Busy Day...Calm Before The Storm?

My day was calm and quiet.  You know, one of those ordinary kind of days.  Nothing special going on.  The Beast was even calm while he refilled the chicks food and water.  Although the day was cool, the sun was out and it did warm up to the mid-50's.  

I talked to Cee today.  Poor thing.  She's still suffering with the sharp pains caused by her ear infection even though she's been on antibiotics now for four days.  I know those pains and I really feel bad for her.  I think something is going around causing that.  She's not the first one that I've heard of that has the same problem.  

I went over to visit with Michael and his sweet wife, Lucia for a couple hours.  Mike is under the weather and, after seeing his swollen feet and hands, I urged him to get in to see a doctor.  His father's family has a history of heart problems and he's got high blood pressure and is borderline hypertensive.  I think I convinced him because his mother (who actually was the one that called me and asked me to go check on him) said he called her and said he was going to go tomorrow.  He doesn't have a regular doctor here but he will go to this walk-in clinic down the road that I know is decent.  His mother, Cee, was not up to making the trip and I live close to him.  At least her mind is relieved now.  I hate to see her worried, especially when she isn't feeling well herself.

It was a nice visit and I certainly didn't mind going over there at all.  I love them both.  I'm going to miss them when they move.  

I have some pictures of the fur babies and a decent picture of one of the chicks...they are growing so quickly.  Here's a picture of the little female.

 Here's a picture of the male fur baby:

The two of them cuddled together on one of the deck chairs (that's a folded blanket they are laying on):

You can see the differences between their coats in this one.  That's the female facing the camera.

Here's the latest shot of one of the chicks.  Can you tell how big they are getting?

There's no red in their feathers...that's just the heat lamp reflection on it's back.  She the other chick coming out from behind the spread?  They are starting to come to greet us when we come into the barn area.  

It won't be long now and the Beast will have to get the fencing up so that we can let the chicks out into the yard.    That will be an interesting day, believe me.  It may not be for several more weeks but it will still be kind of fun to see their reaction to THAT freedom.

The Beast went to bed early (8pm).  He's also getting up around 7am every morning.  Sometimes he gets to sleep all night.  Other times Baron wakes him up at least once to let him out.  He hates just sitting, waiting for Baron to get done and want back into the house.  Especially since Baron first has to take a drink of water before he's ready to settle down again.  But I notice he manages to fall back asleep quickly, even so.  When Baron wakes me, it takes me a long time before I can go back to sleep.  I'm just glad he wakes the Beast most of the time.  Sometimes, when I am still up, the Beast will leave the door to our bedroom wide open so that Baron is more likely to disturb ME to let him out.  I don't really care those times since I don't have to wake up and then try to get back to sleep.

So it's the close of another exciting day here at the Bratfarm.  Love you all.  Be kind to everyone.  It costs nothing and can make a difference in someone's day that you may never know.  ***Hugs***