Leveling Things Up
Okay any married ladies reading this, I’m just wondering. . . when your husband loses something, does he ask you what YOU did with it?
The Farmer may protest otherwise, but it seems to me that when something gets misplaced around here, I hold a very responsible position. That being that somehow, I’m always held responsible. Not to say I don’t lose my fair share of stuff and then some, but it’s not ALWAYS my fault when we can’t find something.
Recent case in point… Saturday the delivery guy was here to repair our mailbox. (That’s a story for another day…) He was setting the post in concrete, and asked The Farmer if he had a level.
Well, he does. A couple of them in fact. But he couldn’t find his shorter level. Later that afternoon, when he was back inside, he wanted to know what project the Cave Geek and I had been working on, and what we’d done with his level.
I informed him we hadn’t been near his level. I’m not sure he believed me.
Now fast forward from Saturday to this morning. We’ve got a bunch of roosters penned up, and one of the hens managed to crawl through a little hole and get in with them. Now one hen in with 9 or so roosters makes for a bad scene for the poor hen.
I managed to chase her inside their building, and shut the cat door leading inside.
Okay, I know that sounds weird to have a cat door in a chicken house, but cat doors really make great little doorways for chicken houses, because you’ve got a neat sliding panel you can take in and out. It really comes in handy sometimes, like today.
Anyway! I slid the panel shut on the cat door, and opened the people sized door to get the hen. Bet you can’t guess what I found?!
How fowl! There's a level in the chicken house.
Yep, sure enough, there was the level The Farmer was looking for Saturday.
It’s like this, sometime back he was putting in some new roosts for the roosters.
And I guess he wanted to be sure the roosters weren’t tilting while they slept, and used his level to get the roosts… well, level!
Once I took a picture of the incriminating evidence, I carried the level around to The Farmer’s workshop, and hung it on the peg board.
See, there it is! It’s probably not in the exact spot The Farmer would hang it, but I don’t think he can miss it. The level is back in place, and just so everyone knows….
