LOL! Funny!
I was up for three hours in the night last night. This is getting annoying.
I hit the pillow like a rock, sleep soundly from about 10:30pm till a little after 2am then zing!!! It’s like I’m completely wide awake. I finally get back to sleep around 5:30am...which messes me up because then I sleep too late. I just got up about 45 minutes ago.
Oh well...I got a lot of the boys’ school organized for this next year.
Same thing happened to me. I just got back up around the same time you did. Coincidence?
I had that happen the other night, but I blame the dog. He had to go out at 1:00 a.m.
Then at 3:00 a.m. and again at 4:00 a.m. he had gas bad enough to wake me up...
It's hot. Lower 100s and as you know...these meat chickens don't do heat well. So Steve and I were talking on Tuesday that we ought to go ahead and process them as quick as possible before we loose more (we've lost two).
So yesterday morning, he set five apart and took away their feed...still had their water, of course.
I made sure they had water all day but at 4 pm, I went out to start setting up for the process when I saw THREE of the five in the throes of dying! ACK!! Steve had piled up all this 1” thick 4x8 lumber on top of the cages (they have hinged lids for access) and had jammed a big cedar post into the fence to hold the lumber on (we were expecting thunderstorms), so it was extremely difficult for me to get that lumber off. I started pulling at it with my bare hands trying to get to them chickens and cool them off before they died.
Two of them literally died in the minutes it took for me to get the lumber off...I was frantic and felt awful. I did manage to get one and hose it off and save it. About that time, Steve came home. He buried the two dead ones and then we processed the other three we'd set apart.
Very disheartening after all the work I'd put in to them, but it's the chance you take letting them live this long in this heat.
We have four left and they're getting processed this evening. Lord willing.
Have you tried Bigelow’s Sweet Dreams Herb Tea? OB drinks is almost every night, and I use it occassionally. It really stops the ~mind-churning~ that you sometimes get in the wee hours of the morning, without leaving you “stupid” when you need to get up. LSA
If you’re not doing the BJU satellite program this year, what are you using? A lot of folks on the TRISMS, as well as Classical Homeschooling Yahoo groups seem to like the Sonlight program for the elementary, up to middle school, age groups.