Finally, things are settling down. My second batch of chicks came in Monday. Sort of. I actually raced to the nearest big city (90 miles away) to pick them up from that post office, rather than wait the extra day it would take for them to be delivered, suspecting (with good reason) that if I did, most of them would die off again.

This time, when I opened the box at the postal sortation center, all but one were alive. Five have perished since, but overall, 16 out of 22 live chicks is far better than 8 out of 29! And boy are they all growing! My oldest chicks are two weeks old, and the youngest one week, and they’re all getting so big! And feathery.

And they’re still scared to death of me, mostly.

Silly birds.

How’s everything else going? Not too bad. Emergency trip to the second biggest city nearby to get cat food and groceries. And sheets, since my current ones are so well worn that the elastic no longer is. So I picked up new ones, with much trouble and despair. For one, why the heck is everything sateen these days? Sateen is a certain way of weaving the fibers to make a very… satin-like feel to the sheets, which I am not that fond of to begin with. I don’t like satin, and I don’t like sateen.

But I had to get some anyway. They had a half dozen colors in regular old 340-610 thread count cotton sheets (I refuse to buy 250-300 thread count sheets, too scratchy), but every single color was pastel or white. And everything in my room is so… not. So I griped and griped and finally settled on some plum colored sateen crap that didn’t feel too sateen like. And at least it matches. And at least it was on SALE. So I didn’t pay full price for sheets I am less than thrilled with.

Oh, did I mention that sateen sheets will take less wear and tear before they succumb to sheet-death? Yeah.

Knitting? Not much going on in the last week, I’m afraid, though I worked a bit on my backyard leaves scarf, and keep urging myself to use my new swift to wind up a skein of yarn to do Mom’s mother’s day gift. I got as far as putting the skein ON the swift. No further. Clearly, I need someone else to kick my ass, because I’m not very good at kicking my own.

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1. Your kick in the ass is in the mail and on it’s way. Went out on Friday :)

   Comment by SP — April 23, 2007 @ 11:55 pm

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