Another super early morning. I was out of the house by 5:00 am and in town by 5:30. I had 3 barrels to pickup at the Steamplant which were all mostly full. I'm going to have to ask them to set the barrels on the uphill side by the fence so It will be a bit easier for me to load them on the trailer. They had them by the wall on the downhill side of the slope. This time there was only one homeless person sleeping under the overpass.
Not sure if they will or not this year but the stacks have been lit up with colored light prior years.
I had one of 2 empties together with the 3 barrels on the trailer and the other brewery had maybe a barrel and a half worth so I ended up shoveling all three partial barrels out into the one empty and topped off the other three on the trailer.
Due to having to shovel a bunch of the grain it took me a little longer to get home, especially since I had to stop for gas. The soak was nicely welcome and helped to open up my sinuses again. We had to be out so I could get J to school.
Yesterday was the launch of Hive Folks and I happened to pickup one of the first 50 to be sold. The netwrok was really slow and it took nearly an hour for it to finally show in my inventory but I got #15/546 which I presume is 
Once it was light and R was up I went out to dump the barrels. The sheep have not gotten a good batch of grain in a while so I opened up a couple of the pallets and backed the trailer into an area of the pen that has not been covered in grain.
It slopped out of the fence towards the boat and the chickens were instantly on top of it. They were jumping up on my trailer before I even backed into the pen. The ground is just frozen enough on the surface that they don't break through so they can more easily get to the grain.
The brown sheep behind the two white has a good sized udder and looks like she will be popping within a couple weeks. Of course Winter lambs, never the easiest but are hardy if they make it.
The sheep don't spread the grain like the chickens do so it is good to have them together with it. The birds tend to level out the piles fairly quickly by scratching it around.
My afternoon was spent in the yard and under the carport breaking down boxes and burning a pile of debris in the fire pit. I'm trying to get the car port cleaned up so we can use it this winter. The cardboard can overtake it rather quickly so every now and then I have to go through and purge it all.
Once they were home we soaked again as it began to try to snow very lightly.
Woke up to a thin layer of snow and with more on the way tonight. J has school today, I have to wash R's clothes if he can ever find them all, keep cleaning under the carport, get more than my minimum words written today, and I need to pull meat out to thaw for grilling this evening.
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