Weekend shenanigans

 It's that time of year where my hubby takes vacation time, and we do all the things!  Well, it's sort of like that. 

Friday was both our last day of work before vacation.  Him and I have all next week off.  My son still has to go to school Monday and Tuesday. Ha ha! 

Saturday I slept in a bit. I had no idea my body needed that much rest. I think I slept for 10 hours. 

After some coffee and a quick something to eat, we started working on the stack of fire wood.

This photo was taken when we were done yesterday.  This afternoon my husband and son went out and cut up more and got stuff ready for tomorrow. 

I'm going to share photos from when we were working.  Nothing much to really explain here.  My husband cut up all the pieces for the log splitter.  I was hauling the pieces over to him. My son was grabbing up the cut pieces and loading them into the trailer.  

My son coming back for another bundle. 

I have to be a bit sneaky about taking photos.  My son HATES having his photo taken, but I know he will appreciate this when he's older.  He better. 

This was part of the pile of cut wood that was waiting to be split. We saved the heaviest for last.  Uff da! It was all so heavy. 

Cutting up one of the bigger pieces. 

I found an interesting pattern in one of the cut pieces.  I think it looks like the fear mask, from the movie. 

We filled the trailer up three times and drove it over to where we are building the holz hausens. 

We opted to started a second one, rather than continuing on the first one. If/when we ever get snow, no one will have to clear out the area for the new one to be started. Hooray for forward thinking! 

Aren't they a cute pair?

Today the weather was decent, still. The temperature wasn't too low either. 

So we decided to do another overdue project. 

Can you guess? 

What do we use this pot for? 

Need another hint? 

Okay. What is this? 

Did you guess a chicken plucker? 

Yup ... It was time to butcher these guys. 

These are the last of the roosters we hatched out and raised up. 

Well, the whole process went incredibly fast.  No more than two hours, including set up and clean up. We butchered 10 birds.

They turned out beautifully. If freshly processed birds can be called that. This bird is fresh from the plucker and before my husband did the last bits that need doing. 

Since we wrapped that up so early in the morning, I took the time to do a quick clean around the house. Then worked on dinner.  We had Ka Bobs. It's been a while since we had them.

I forgot to take a photo of them, but I did take a photo (or three) of Furby.  She was in the kitchen with me, keeping me company.  She's so funny, sometimes, when I try taking a photo of her at her level.  Half the time she's so busy trying to see what is going on. 

"What's going on?"

"Hold on, let me see you with my good eye."

"I still have no idea what's going on."

This afternoon I gave the big girls and roos a bit of a treat. I had some bok choy from a food box I paid for.  I forgot about the bok choy and it froze.  I had it stored in a cooler out in the garage. 

The birds seems to like it.