Spring is almost here!

Well, life moves on here in Missouri. Some news.

There is an older woman named Sue lives almost next door to where Drew bought his house. She is a friend of my neighbor Doreen. Has a disability and low income, so last year I gave her some of my extra roosters to eat. She had a turkey hen so I gave her a Tom to breed with it. Well, turns out the Tom or something beat up on the hen and it died. Bad news. The good news is it was a Red Tom, so she offered to give him back so I’d have a Red Tom to breed with my hens. So I went and got him last night. Now I’m trying to babysit while he gets re-acquainted with this group. They don’t seem to have really accepted him yet. Of course, he’s been back less than 24 hours, so we’ll see how some of that goes with time. So now I’m back up to 9 turkeys, 3 Toms and 6 hens, and I’ll have to decide how to split them up. Also need to start building the pens they are supposed to go in real soon.

And despite the loss of some hens, I’m still doing good on eggs. Got 9 yesterday, and 14 the other day. Today I thought I got 13. When I brought them in to clean them turns out one is a turkey egg. Kind of small and hove my doubts if it is fertile or not, but I’ll hold onto it and find out. The ones in the incubator should almost be far enough along to candle and see if they are developing. Always enjoy that.

Tonight was McTeachers night at McDonalds. The elementary school comes over and from 4-8pm they get 10 percent of our sales. Got to run shift for one a few years ago and it was a blast. The restaurant is packed, and the sales are crazy and it is just great. Ran lunch today and got to get ready for the night shift. That was pretty good too. And then Ronald McDonald came in the store for a while. THE Ronald McDonald. So I took a few pictures of him with the kids and stuff. Got talked into being in one of them and turned out bad. Looks like I’m peaking around the corner. Not what I intended it to be, was just trying to be on the side. Funny I guess.

It has been raining like crazy and the ground is saturated and puddles everywhere. Hoping that it will dry up some so I can start planting the garden. Oh, and warming up some too wouldn’t be a bad idea. I started seeds in the closet again, but not sure how many of them are actually going to make it into the ground. Most of them. Will soon need a place to put them to finish growing some before I plant them out, and wait for it to get warmer.

My paper work should be in the mail to apply for my teacher certification in North Carolina. Then when I get it, I can take it and go to Missouri and apply for certification here. Paper work drill, but being retired military I should be used to it by now.