A Godly Maiden

My goodness. I can hardly believe it's been over a month already since my last post! I think that's about the longest time I've ever had between posts, don't you think? Time sure flew by. It doesn't feel like that long ago to me that I posted (but it probably does to ya'll!).

So many things have happened around here since my last post. We finished re-doing the chicken pen wire, and also the rooster pen. When I was up in WV with my grandparents, Mom and Dad framed in underneath the overhang of the barn and then put chain-link fence around that, so that Gracie couldn't get to the woodchip bins and get the lids off of them, like she's real fond of doing.

Something else happened too… remember Sammy, my little guinea buddy? The one I had a hard time naming? My most intelligent guinea? Well, I was putting the guineas away one night, and noticed he was missing, so I started looking around for him. At first I thought maybe the other guineas had been attacking him and he was hiding, but he always would come running when I shook the scratch bucket.
I found Sam down by the pond, close by the plank — dead. I thought maybe he broke his neck or something, but Mom thinks he might've died from heat exhaustion.

Since my last post we've also dug out the waterhole some more, so it can hold lots more water in it! Guess what? I even found 2 snapping turtles in it! I had a hard time catching them, but I used my pond net and after a few tries managed to get them in it! There sure was a lot of bullfrogs and such in there.

And we also re-did the roof on the overhang of the barn… replaced the shingles with metal roofing. And re-did the spouting, and put in a bigger water tank to catch all the water. Only… it hasn't rained very much since we did all that, so we've been having to carry water from the house in 5 gallon buckets to fill up the animal's waterers!

It sure has been hot here lately.. I mean, it was up to about 104 degrees with pretty high humidity! These past two days it has cooled down some, down in the 90's at least. You wouldn't have thought that 90 degrees would've felt cool, but after being in 104 degrees for a while, it sure does! I'm so thankful for the temperature drop! And I'm sure the animals are enjoying it as well!