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Chickens
Two more chickens arrived yesterday, and are integrating
nicely into the flock. We've named them Sofie and Dan/Ben
(Den?).
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Chooks
Have chooks. Three brown cross-breeds and one white silkie,
adopted from Brenda. They rock, although one of the
cross-breeds has been jumping fences despite wing-clipping.
More later when I have time. Oh yeah, Shadow (our rabbit)
loves the chooks.
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Chickens
The coop is finished. It looks fantastic, and contains all
sorts of things a chook coop needs like nesting boxes,
doors, walls, and even a roof. The pen goes up today (real
easy, just string up some chook wire), and most of our flock
will arrive tomorrow.
We're also adopting Brenda's (from my old workplace)
chicken, a beautiful silkie hen. With any luck she'll be
arriving tonight, so she has an extra chance to get used to
her new surroundings. I'm very excited.
Shadow (our rabbit) helped a lot in making the coop,
including the digging of the stump holes, and inspecting our
materials and tools. We discovered that he hates small
step-ladders (triple-stomp in badness), but he LOVES tall
step-ladders (making a point of sitting under them to eat
grass). Go figure.
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Chickens
Been building a chicken coop for our chickens-to-be. It's
taken a bit of time to get around to it, but the coop is
looking good. It's built almost entirely from stuff that
was hanging around our yard (or our neighbours). The
previous house owner seemed to have quite a collection of
junk built up, including some 6ft steel pipes that are very
heavy and very strong, and have made an excellent support
for the frame.
Been able to make use of cool things like cobalt tipped
high-speed drilling bits, and molybidium (spel?) alloy
tin-snips. Discovered that power-drills work much better
when you run them in forward, rather than in reverse.
Hoping to get a few Isa Brown chooks from CERES once the coop is
complete. Failing that will probably investigate local
breeders.
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Finance::Quote
1.06 was released yesterday, and despite a few hiccups with
PAUSE (the CPAN upload
tool), and
SourceForge's
database, it all went quite smoothly.
I'm chuffed at how many people are sending me source code
and feedback. I've got to look into setting up a better
infrastructure so that Quotelets (the modules that run with
F::Q) can be distributed and updated seperately to the main
release.
Discovered that F::Q even gets a mention in a lecture stream at LaTrobe
University in Bendigo. That made me smile.
Garden
Water tank (1030 litres) arrived today. Will be installed
and operational next week. Should provide us with a plenty
big supply of water.
Divided the rhubarb, and as such have oodles of rhubarb
that we're trying to use up. Crown segments have gone into
our front garden, our neighbours garden, and the place
where the rhubarb was originally. Provided that they don't
all die, I'll be extremely happy.
Fire Safety
Four new smoke detectors in the house, rather than the one
dodgy one that came with the place. Going to have to move
the one in the hallway as it's blocking one of the
cupboards doors. (Only noticed that one AFTER I'd screwed
the thing to the ceiling.)
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