My day so far

[fitzw]

I'm doing my father's chores for the next few weeks. So far today, I've:

• Made a new egg glove


• Gathered the eggs


• Fixed the light timer for the chickens


• Made sure that the heifers were still in the pasture


• Pulled three staves of locust out of the pile for making new fence posts


• Moved 23 boxes of just-delivered bread dough to various freezers (Ashfield Fall Festival this weekend)


• Restacked about 300 sap buckets in the barn


• Drove my mother to work


• Put my mother's car on the battery charger

And then I went to work.

Comments

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

What is an egg glove?

[fitzw.livejournal.com]

That's just a fingerless leather glove, to protect the back of the hand when reaching under hens in the nests to get the eggs. My father was using a fingerless knit glove, but it wasn't doing as well as a leather one (he was having trouble getting it on and off because of the soft cuff). I had a pair of gloves with several holes in the fingertips, so I converted one.