Why are there not many pictures of Halloween? you might ask... this was the Halloween that we didn't have time for because we were too busy doing our Little House on the Prarie chores since we have been without power for a few days. We will definitely be buying a generator after this fiasco. It has been relatively warm out and sunny during the day, so we haven't missed the heat except that the meat bird chicks are not old enough to be without heat, so, in something that is now funny after the fact, yesterday morning the kids and I loaded up all 30 meat chicks into a dog crate and dragged them to the back door. The crate wouldn't fit through the back door so we had to drag them around to the front door. This is fairly early in the morning, the ground is frosty and James is helping me in nothing, but underwear and a bathrobe.... it was quite a scene, not to mention the fact that the meat birds are on the verge of dying from the cold... On top of all of that having that many chicks live in our front room for a few days was unpleasant to say the least. We were able to flush the toilets but only because part of our twice daily chores were to go to the pond next to our house and get buckets of water to use for this purpose.
Thankfully, most of our friends had power, so we had hot showers and towards the end we were able to borrow a generator so we didn't lose the meat in our freezers. The kids had a great time trick or treating with their friends, the power eventually came back on AND no meat birds died in the end;)
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