Vey detached, no longer anxious, in limbo

[Painter]

Here's to longer and longer strings of good days!

It's great that you are establishing new relationships, it sounds like you are really blooming socially compared to how you felt about it just a few months ago. If I remember right, I think you saw yourself as much more introvert than it sounds like now? You can certainly not say you are isolated, and I think it's very brave to pour yourself into new relationships like you have done.

I'm glad things are working out legally. It can feel very out of our control and that's an icky feeling. Best of luck going forward!

I love bluebirds, you're so lucky to get to host them! Always enjoy reading about your farm and the life on it.

That's an interesting problem with the automatic coop door, that a storm can make it dark enough to close. I think you might be running into the problem you get with not having a mother hen or a rooster to organize the flock. My Buff Orpington/Cochin mix 'Mother Teresa' hatched several generations of chicks from all the hens and took fantastic care of them. She would integrate them until the rooster took over. Maybe a motherly hen would help.

I'll post a little update tomorrow in my own thread about how it's going.