Today's Accomplishments

I did well.  The turkey pen is now built, the turkeys happily ensconced within it's wire and wooden walls.  The pen is roughly 10ft by 10ft by 4 ft high, completely enclosed.  I admit to a slight epiphany when it came to figuring out a door for the pen.  I cannibalized another part of one of the dog crates and nailed the gate/door of that to the pen.  It actually worked out quite perfectly!

Sadly the pen was built too late.  Tommie (the turkey tom) had been bullying Godfrey (the gander) and apparently trapped him in the barn and slammed him into the door to the chicken coop.  Godfrey didn't make it.  I really enjoyed Godfrey, he was a sweet guy.  And while I did know that Tommie had been occasionally going after Godfrey, I had no idea it had escalated so far!  I would have never suspected that the "predator" I was trying to protect them all from was living within the confines of the bird pen.  Tommie is not a bad boy, so don't misunderstand.  He was being a male, ruled by his hormones and probably trying to keep Godfrey in his place.  Tommie is the flock protector, and he is a very powerful one.  With him and his girls penned up, the geese should be a little more comfortable.  Though now I'll have to try to locate another gander (or 2, Grace is still without a mate too)

I also re-turned the primary garden and cut 2 trellis wire sections for the tomatoes.  I rolled out another length of wire to straighten overnight and will cut 2 or 3 more tomorrow.  I had been hoping for more, but looks like I will have 5 trellises this year with which to work, the remaining tomato plants will have to use regular stakes.  Next year I will get another wire roll for more trellis sections.  Tomorrow I'll plant the primary garden and hopefully the secondary garden.  I also want to clear a spot behind the house for Aydi's flower bed.  Her little brother, Bubba, laid hands on 2 of her 'special' flowers, one was a truly beautiful plant, and he ruined them.  She was utterly devastated by it.  I'll try to replace those for her tomorrow, just before we put them in the ground.

David tried to put up my shed... only to discover the building he got for me was actually 12x15, rather than 10x12 as he'd originally thought.  That meant one of 2 things, either cut the building down to fit the foundation, or extend the foundation another 2 feet.  He extended the foundation.  Jessi helped a little at first, then she took it in her head to clean off the front porch, even though the she is not built yet, which was where I'd planned to put a lot of the things that had been on the porch!  However, I have to admit, the porch looked pretty nice all cleaned off.