No, we aren't in New Guinea. We have just received a revised shipping date on our Guinea keets-- maybe today. Yes, it could as soon as a couple of hours. Kris has butterflies. I will be surprised to find any of them still cheeping. I think that sums up the difference in our personalities. Kris will be stricken if any of the chicks don't make it and I will be surprised if any do.
There are times when I wished I had been born in Maine and could go "Ayuh" without sounding like I'm from away. If we open the box and all the chicks have expired, it would be the perfect time to look at them and go "Ayuh". That would sum up my opinion that the uppity flat landers from Ohio should of known better than to try sending live chicks all the way to Maine by US Postal service. No other expression can say so much in less words or combination of letters, than this expressive grunt. It remains one of my great disappointments that I don't get to use it.
Well, in an act of faith in the postal service that I don't feel, we have framed up the keet condo. It is supposed to rain today, but if it doesn't, I will frame the front wall and put the purlins on the roof. Purlins run across the rafters and are what the metal roofing attaches to. (Us building types throw these terms in to humble the none building types. It allows us to feel smug while ending a sentence in a preposition.)
In a totally unrelated event, yesterday we had a realtor and client move the saw horse and drive in the road. They didn't make it fifty yards. I consider this to be the poorest effort we have seen to date. We didn't even walk out to enjoy their discomfort at being so dumb. There were two vehicles involved and the new 4x4 truck got stuck behind the car. Usually, they make it to the hill where it is bottomless and all four wheels sink to the frame. Then the wrecker has a hard time getting a cable to them from ground that is firm enough for the wrecker to not get stuck. This can turn into a two wrecker event. Yesterday was no challenge at all for the wrecker. The realtor told the client that she had never seen the road be a problem. Huh. Well, I guess she should come out more often in April and early May. Jess and Alex walked by while they were stuck and observed the client was dressed nicely with lots of expensive jewelry. She might surprise us, but usually that indicates maybe she isn't going to be a serious candidate for living on Jellison Ridge Road.
Back to Keet watch 2011. If the keets are coming, we will get a call around 8:00 this morning. Wish us luck, I have a feeling both we and the keets are going to need some, "Ayuh."
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