Last year karen went to an auction in her very early days as a new farmer. She brought home three old, wooden chicken crates for a good price. These crates are slatted, about 3 ft. by 4 ft., and can fit about ten chickens in them. Since monday morning is the time for us to take in the broilers and turkeys, I went over these crates today, patching and shoring them up so they will hold up to the weight of at least 60 lbs. of live chooks. We have one plastic crate, and Karen went to Nasco today and picked up one more, which should be enough to carry all of the birds. We are down to 4 turkeys, and they should fit easily into one large dog crate.

Finished planting (more) garlic today. After last weeks' planting, I stood back and looked at the garlic plot and thought 'we need more garlic than this!' so I went back to the garden center and picked up a few pounds more. The turkeys accompanied me in the garden. They 'helped' by pulling up my markers, carrying off my bags of garlic, and then lying down in the rows and scratching up as much dirt as possible onto themselves. Did I mention how much I'll be glad when they are gone?!

Cleaned up the garage a bit as well; moved some lumber out from projects, swept the sawdust off the floor, burned some sawdust and feed bags cluttering up the barn. Picked up the yard. Added more straw to the broiler pen, tended to them, and it was time to come in and do some cleaning and Fall preparation. Finished caulking & sealing all the house windows to keep out the chilly drafts. Some day, we will have all new windows! And insulation!