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The downside of having animals
Jun. 1st, 2025 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaOne of our ducks vanished during the day, in all probability taken by a fox. I can't imagine she would stay away from feeding time of her own free will, so something must have happened to her. Obviously we lock them up at night, but they don't wander far from the house and garden during the day, so we thought there wasn't much danger in broad daylight. But no.
When we asked in the village group chat, it turns out several neighbors had had chickens taken during the day by foxes! Would have been nice if they had warned the neighbors about this, instead of using the group chat for useless and annoying suspicion of strangers walking down the road (a completely unremarkable thing for people to do).
I don't blame the fox for doing its foxy thing, obviously. But I am more sad than I expected to be about the duck. They are such funny and endearing creatures--I had grown quite fond of them all, and this one was one of my favorites. She was the younger female, often the first to come running at feeding time, and had been amusing and annoying us with her desultory brooding habits. Runner ducks apparently don't reliably brood, but she was often doing it, so we left her some eggs to let her try. So she would do it for half the day, but then go out with the others and ignore the eggs. We joked that maybe she was holding out for an eight-hour working day if she was going to brood.
Farewell, Ester. You were a lovely duck, and I shed tears for you.
When we asked in the village group chat, it turns out several neighbors had had chickens taken during the day by foxes! Would have been nice if they had warned the neighbors about this, instead of using the group chat for useless and annoying suspicion of strangers walking down the road (a completely unremarkable thing for people to do).
I don't blame the fox for doing its foxy thing, obviously. But I am more sad than I expected to be about the duck. They are such funny and endearing creatures--I had grown quite fond of them all, and this one was one of my favorites. She was the younger female, often the first to come running at feeding time, and had been amusing and annoying us with her desultory brooding habits. Runner ducks apparently don't reliably brood, but she was often doing it, so we left her some eggs to let her try. So she would do it for half the day, but then go out with the others and ignore the eggs. We joked that maybe she was holding out for an eight-hour working day if she was going to brood.
Farewell, Ester. You were a lovely duck, and I shed tears for you.
Energy drop to Squirrels
Jun. 1st, 2025 08:21 amfresneI've actually felt harder hit by my recent cold than any time I've caught Covid. Post energy drop can in fact happen in any instance of illness, sigh.
Thankfully, I'm in a cycle of working from home. So, mornings can be slow, so very slow, and I'm at work when I need to be. I'm very aware from the Friday's that I am at dad's and there's a lot few spaces to just take a break and rest when I need to how much I actually need that.
Other-folks fictive wise, I finished my Murderbot Diaries re-read, and in a show adjacent way, just want to start back at the top again. Instead, checking out some other Martha Wells works from the library to lightly blink.
Longer term, trying to decide if I have the energy to pull together some new costumes or other for SD Comic-Con. Hard when the thing I'm most jonesing on is The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon - the fake show within a show in the Murderbot TV series - and they are over the top terrible outfits. So, it's...I could make a thing...a terrible thing...do I have energy to spend...no, but look how terrible that is...look how gen-x the amount of elipses I'm using is...squirrel.
Thankfully, I'm in a cycle of working from home. So, mornings can be slow, so very slow, and I'm at work when I need to be. I'm very aware from the Friday's that I am at dad's and there's a lot few spaces to just take a break and rest when I need to how much I actually need that.
Other-folks fictive wise, I finished my Murderbot Diaries re-read, and in a show adjacent way, just want to start back at the top again. Instead, checking out some other Martha Wells works from the library to lightly blink.
Longer term, trying to decide if I have the energy to pull together some new costumes or other for SD Comic-Con. Hard when the thing I'm most jonesing on is The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon - the fake show within a show in the Murderbot TV series - and they are over the top terrible outfits. So, it's...I could make a thing...a terrible thing...do I have energy to spend...no, but look how terrible that is...look how gen-x the amount of elipses I'm using is...squirrel.