Somedays you should just stay in bed . . .

Yesterday was one of those days . . . we all have had them.  Where everything and I mean EVERYTHING seems to go wrong or work against us!

I lost one of the baby chicks.  I am pretty much responsible for that one!  I decided to move the two newer baby chicks in with the "older" baby chicks. BIG MISTAKE!!  The "older" baby chicks were NOT thrilled with the "new" visitors and began to attack the little ones.  I thought maybe if I turned off all the lights that would make it better (chickens can't see very well in the dark).  It did for awhile until I turned the lights on again and the attacking began again.  It seemed to slow down.  So I left them alone (mistake #2).  Somehow the two baby chicks got out.  Baby #16 met one of our Shih Tzus who thought it was a delightful "squeek" toy.  Hmmm - that's funny - after one bite, it doesn't squeek anymore!  So baby #15 got moved back to the little box.  Live and learn - a hard lesson!

Meanwhile back at the chicken pen . . . we had another visitor . . . we are guessing Mr/Ms Fox was back for chicken dinner.  We heard the noise - chickens have a tendency to get quite upset when Mr/Ms Fox makes an appearance.  By the time we got there, there was only a massive pile of feathers scattered throughout the pen and all the chickens very upset.  It had to be a fox because there was no body - raccoons and possum usually leave a body (and it ain't pretty!).

Since it was a nice evening and I was pretty upset by the day's occurences, I thought it would be great day for a bike ride.  BUT I noticed both of the tires on my bike where slightly flat.  Thankfully,we have one of those portable air compressors that plug into the cigarette lighter in your car.  GREAT!!  Everything was going good until I tried taking the stupid end off of my stem of my bike tire.  It won't come off.  It just won't budge.  So I got one of my husband's wretch and tried twisting it off.  Well . . . it sort of came off but it broke the stem off of my tire!  NOW it is REALLY flat!!  So much for the bike ride (with the way my luck is going, I would have probably fallen anyway!!)

So I thought I better call it a day!!