Fingers Crossed

My computer is being slow and glitch-y again. I scanned and no viruses, and my last hope is that it's the just the heat up here, and if I don't run the computer too long or take it downstairs into the basement (which is wonderfully cool), it will work.

I've got my fingers crossed.

However, as frustrating as a computer that keeps freezing up is, It's nice to spend a morning outside picking zucchini and snap peas and letting a few of the chickens out to graze and eat worms. We've also got an experiment going that involves some planks of wood in the chicken coop, lots of water, and hopefully we'll end up with some free chicken food in the form of worms, centipedes and earwigs that have chosen to hide underneath said wood planks.

In less happy news, Sybil lost another half of a toe. She had half a toe go missing in late winter, and we assumed it was frostbite or something that she'd lost it to. But now I'm worried that it could be a fungus. Or something else? I don't know, and even though Sybil's the tyrant, hen-pecking, nasty, KRRRKKBURRRKKK KKRRHSHHHHH BAKBAKBAKKKKKKKK complainer, it'd still be sad to have to cull her (even for her own and the rest of the flock's good). And plus, we have a neighbor who loves chickens, and Sybil is her favorite of the bunch.

Hopefully there's something we can do to help her.

As far as writing and such, I've been making some progress, though not as much with the horse book -- I've been having more luck with the chicken story so far. And I've gotten closer to finishing this chapter of The Other Side of Shrae, so I'll hopefully be able to post that soon.

-wil'