I have lost track of time, but a lot has happened over the past week. Well, mostly it was work, but we had a couple of issues to deal with. The first one I won't get into. Annie had a melt down about a topic that I don't feel comfortable discussing.

The other had to do with a mistake I made. When I moved the chicks to the coop, I wedged the grating up to ensure they could reach the food. Over the next few days there were a number of times that Annie and even Annie and a friend went to check on the chicks. I don't know that that had anything to do with what happened, but I was pretty sure I had the grating wedged in tight. At any rate, Thursday morning we were moving very early, so I decided to take a peek at the chicks just to make sure all was well. The grating had fallen and trapped three of them on the side where the food was. They were ok, just scared. Unfortunately, one of them wasn't fast enough and it got caught underneath. I don't think it suffered. It looked like it's neck snapped immediately.

Annie was devastated. We had a teary funeral in the garden before school. She held the chick and petted it while I dug the hole. Then she got a paving stone and placed it over the grave. She was still upset when she came home. It was not a good day.

Back to work...