Teenage Chickens
Dad finished building transitional home number 3 for the not-so-baby chickens. It's a make-shift cage inside of the chicken coup. I reached inside the box to grab the chickens in order to move them and they run so fast. I had a hard time grabbing them even when they were confined in the box. Finally I grabbed one, they feel weird, like bones wearing fluff. I put them in an empty diaper box and then carried the box to the coup and put them inside the new cage. They immediately started kicking and shaping the hay into a little nest. It was kind of cute.
Meanwhile, I had to fix the screen on our sliding door in our bedroom, it had an enormous hole ripped into it, and we just happened to have some leftovers of a roll of screen material, so I got on it. First you take out the gasket and throw away the old screen. While I was doing this I broke the gasket, so I had the main piece and another piece about a foot long. I figured it didn't matter I'll just use the pieces. It was extremely difficult to shove the little gasket back inside the slot. I had to push with all my strength on just about an 8th of an inch at a time. And that lame little plastic roller you are supposed to use is worthless. It makes the surface area too large and I can't press hard enough to get it in there. I kept slipping and hitting the other hand with it. I just threw the darn thing and said forget it. I had to use an icepick and just press down on small sections at a time, it was a lot easier. I had to pull with the left hand to keep it tight. After not too long, my left hand's knuckles started hurting and I realized the screen material was rubbing them raw and starting to bleed. I did this work on the back patio.
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The yaks were grazing in the field far in the distance, but when they saw me working, just a few minutes later they came over and stood at the fence to look at me. It was so cute I went and got some of these flowering vines that are weeds growing on our driveway and gave it to them. They love those vines, and they look funny eating them too, it's like our noodles. They stayed by the fence and watched me for quite some time. It was so cool. They are so cute.
It was fairly hot today and after a long time working I looked around and didn't see the yaks anywhere, but I could barely make out a dark shape inside the yak shack, I figured the yaks were inside their shack for shade. Later when I came out for the final installment of the screen door saga, they came out of the shack and ran up to the fence again to see me. Aww. It feels so amazing to be building this relationship with these animals. They trust us and you can see the trust growing everyday. Generally, they hang out closer to the back fence where we can see them much more often, they look toward the house at the windows. I suppose part of the process is also for us (me) to feel more comfortable around them, I have to trust that they won't gore me.
As the day went on, and it got hotter, I was sweating as I worked and about 100 microscopic bugs were flying around my face and whizzing in my ear. It was so annoying. I kept swatting at them and I eventually gave up and let them crawl where ever they had to. Eventually, I worked my way around the door and was almost done. I needed to use the last little piece of gasket that I broke earlier, but I looked and looked and couldn't find it anywhere. I looked all around the work area, I looked in the garbage I looked in the garage. I just couldn't understand where it could've gone. Ganesh came out and saw me looking and I told him what I was looking for, he asked if I wanted him to look for it, I said sure, and he walked outside and Aji found it in about two second. He said, "see, I look and it appears.” Lord Ganesh is the remover of obstacles. I got the last bit of work done and I finished it! Now we can finally open our door for some fresh air.
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