We stayed home last weekend while William was still in the hospital.  He had plenty of visitors though.  We caught up on the farm.  I am admiring our two young tom turkeys.

I enticed them into the sunshine to see their bronze highlights with some success.

On Sunday evening we watched the Seahawks, and I posted a “Win for William” post on Facebook.  They did, in fact, win which I thought was great. At the same time though William was getting his chest tube removed which was a huge step forward for going home.

On Monday, doing the chores, I admired the frosted tips on Jameson’s hair.

I also noticed that we have deadly nightshade on our farm.  Fortunately nobody seems to be eating it.

Tom found a shed snakeskin on our farm.  There was one at dad’s cabin that I wished I had picked up.

I have been drying edible flowers and herbs. I have dried violas, chamomile flowers, marigold, nasturtiums, dill weed, dill seed, spearmint, lemon thyme, oregano, lemon balm,  peppermint, thyme, sage, chives, basil, parsley, basil, fennel seed and fennel leaves.  The house has been smelling great!

Monday night, William was able to go home from the hospital!  The air pocket outside of his left lung finally resolved, and he was good to go.  Such a relief, and I think he will do much better with sitting and walking at home.  Hoping his recovery is complete.

Today I was finally able to get all 3 tom turkeys showing off at the same time. They are majestic.

I was admiring the cows while they were eating their morning grain.  Louella is looking really healthy.

Jameson is growing up nicely.

Sonja is looking fat but healthy.

Bluey was begging for bread bits from me and looking cute.

Unfortunately, Diddley’s arthritis is getting worse, and he really isn’t walking much.  So I moved him into the barn with Vanessa, the crippled sheep.  It is supposed to rain quite a bit, and I didn’t want to leave him out in that. Plus I am not sure he is getting up to drink water so this way I can make sure he has access to food, water and shelter.  But it is definitely going to be very hard watching his decline.  He is my favorite sheep. Not of all time but living sheep.  Bob comes to mind as an overall favorite, but Diddley is a close second.

I finally finished spinning Jet’s wool into yarn.  He was a black Shetland wether we had who died in 2022 at age 14 years.  The wool is from his 2014 and 2019 shearings.  I accidentally S-plied singles into a 2 ply yarn.  I realized it when I was all done.  So rather than give up, my zoom spinning companions educated me that I could then Z-ply the 2 ply yarn into a 4-ply yarn.  So that is what I did, and the resulting yarn is looking good.

I appreciated gorgeous Wally sleeping on our bed this afternoon.

I finished this book that Al strongly encouraged me to take home rom the cabin and read.  It is about the history of the Bumping Lake (near my mother’s family cabin).  It includes history of the local characters, mining, dam building, road building, environmental protection, the CCC, fisheries, fire fighting and the Supreme Court.  William O. Douglas was tearing around the area in a a battered brown Dodge Dart and used the pay phone in the Whistlin’ Jack’s parking lot to make phone calls, including regarding important Supreme Court decisions.  I was wondering if I ran across him in my childhood doing these things.  Anyway, this is a great book about PNW history and worth reading.

For dinner I made Sheet-Pan Chicken With Apple, Fennel and Onion because we have homegrown chicken, apples and fennel.  And it was amazing,  One of the best meals ever and highly recommended.