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3-4” snow Wednesday night & yesterday, then dropped to low single digits over night. Warmed up to 32 today, and is back to 10, & dropping, now.

I took advantage of the warmth this afternoon, and got a load of water to top off the cistern tanks.

The gardening this week has consisted of starting a new pot
of cat grass.

The old biddies quit laying during and after the September molt, so we had a plan to can as soon as it warmed up last week...and one of the 3 white ones must have overheard; we’ve gotten 4 eggs this past week. I know it’s a white one, because she was busy doing her business on the nest when I was feeding the first time she laid.

That hen is very lucky, because a turkey with a lower leg injury showed up hopping around the garden area when I had planed on doing them last week, so I took care of it instead. Couple of days later, deer season opened, and was just as suddenly over for me: no time to chop chickens...then the weather went south, an she started laying.
The eggs all have her ‘signature’, so the 5 black ones get no reprieve when it warms back up next week. I don’t have the time or patience to try to single out, catch, and tag her, so the other 2 whites get a free ride.