The Best Part of Any Vacation is Coming Home

Is it just me, or do you think coming home from a vacation is lot of work?  Besides doing some much needed grocery shopping, 5 loads of laundry and rounding up all our pets from the neighbors yesterday, we also had the fun task of taking all the shelving out of the refrigerator and scrubbing it down. Someone {okay, me} had left a package of fish thawing in the refrigerator before we left. Why, I have no idea but not only did the fish thaw out, but leaked all over the place.

Good times!

We had the girls down the street take care of our outdoor chickens while we were away. Which is no small task if you don’t have chickens of your own. They had to get up at dusk to let the hens out of the coop, feed them and make sure they had plenty to drink. Then come back at dusk and lock them up.

They don’t have pet chickens of their own so it was kind of fun for them and they really enjoyed helping out.

When we left Awkward Martha and Squirrely had gone broody. Now apparently Piggey has gone broody as well.

We had another neighbor keep our blue cochin baby chicks in their garage and collect our packages for us. What a blessing. They too do not have baby chicks and loved taking care of them. The neighbors even named our 3rd chick {who was still nameless} Blue Cheese.

Now we have Blueberry, Blue Bell and Blue Cheese.

Little Miss Lucy.

The Hunter and his wife watched Lucy the puddle dog for us. God Bless them. She had 6 accidents, hopped her fence area on day one and refused to go back in and pretty much ran around all day and wore their other dogs out. Ha. What a stinker.

One of their dogs is a Jack Russel Terrier and they said Lucy kept him on his toes all 5 days she was there. She also stole his cookies and gained about 2 pounds while she was away. She did sleep well though, The Hunter and his wife said Lucy went to bed around 8 am and didn’t move a muscle until about 7 the next morning. Gee I wonder why.

Ahh it’s good to be back home. Even if there are still a ton of chores to do.

Have a great Sunday everyone.

♥ Mavis