Chicken Baths, Psaltery Practice, and a Cornfield

I had to give our two lame chickens a bath today, Dove and Puffy Buffy. They have apparently spent too much time in the turkey pen, where I’ve been putting them when I let Danny out. Well, the turkeys had lice, and they decided to share it with the two hens.
And, when I picked them up to take them back to the hen pen, they both decided to share some with me.

I only found two on my head, but I scrubbed my head with Levi’s Tea Tree Shampoo tonight, just in case there were anymore. Levi always tells me “Where there’s one, there’s more. Where there’s two, there’s four!”

Puffy Buffy didn’t mind getting a bath. She floats just like a duck. Dove, on the other hand, gave me a fit. What was really bad for her was on the last dunking, she decided to dip her head under. That just really freaked her out.. LOL. After that she was just downright mad at me.
So from now on, I will either put them both in with the little guineas, or the duck pen.

I have been practicing my psaltery just about every day, and I’m getting pretty good at it! I haven’t been using my notebook at all, but just playing completely without the notes. It is so much easier than trying to read the notes and bow at the same time. I’ve memorized more of the up and down movements than the actual notes.

Levi took a trip through the woods to a field today, that used to have horses in it. They now have a cornfield in their place. He took the camera so he could take the pictures, since I wasn’t going along with him.

The first is of one of the fields, full of corn. The second is of one of the vine infested places. Doesn’t it look awesome? I bet there’s a lot of snakes in there though.

The first here is of a turtle he found, and the second is a hawk. I lightened him up in the picture, so perhaps you can see him a bit better.

I didn’t go along with him because I just didn’t want to handle all the attack flies, and not to mention the ticks that like to attach themselves to me. I have been seed-tickless so far this year, and I would not like to get them right now. Them little seed ticks are tough to get rid of, and on top of that, I usually get them every year. So I’m doing everything I can this year to avoid the little creatures!