I woke up this morning feeling pretty crappy. I had a raging sore throat and a fever. Amanda was will on call, so she had to go in to road or whatever, so I stayed home with the kiddies. LK wanted to use his scooter, but since I felt awful, I suggested that he explore pbskids on the internet, and he readily agreed. Great parenting on my part, but one does what one can.

While the Kai was absorbed in screen time, I tried to clean while entertaining the Bonasaurus. I also ate two soy burgers for breakfast. I have been eating way too many soy burgers in the past three or so weeks and they have funked up my GI tract, and yet I cannot keep away from them.

Amanda eventually came home and stuff happened that I do not recall.

When the Bonasarus got up from her nap (ok, I do recall that), we went up to Jefferson Park so that Lonan could ride his kick scooter. Amanda watched him scoot about the skate park while I stayed with the Bon. Basically that meant I idly walked around with her and randomly stopped and put her down and watched her pull up grass and flowers and truy to eat things and the like. Not too exciting.

Aside: while we were getting into the car to go to the park, I saw Armando slink back towards the house in that unmistakeable “i caught something” cat posture. Lo, and behold, he got a baby bird. Fast, too, since he got it in only a few minutes… the time it took for us to get the kids out to the car. It seems likely that the chick fell out of its nest and Armando just found it with that sixth cat sense, but perhaps he really is a stone cold killa.

Back home, Amanda talked a lot on the phone about work/call stuff while I entertained the Bon. LK played with his legos. I eventually mowed the lawn and used the weedwhacker and did some tomato plant maintenance. I also caught the bokboks eating an egg out in the run. Did one of them lay one out there? They definitely did not move it from the henhouse to the run, and laying it there seems odd. It did not see any eggshell pieces, so I could not identify who layed it, and when I later entered the run there wasonly a damp spot on the ground left. I suppose that Rock is the most likely culprit since her eggs have always been deformed and thin shelled. I think perhaps she layed an egg without a shell which would explain why I did not see any shell pieces. She had done so before, but I removed it before the bokboks thought to eat it. That would also explain perhaps why it was laid in the run… maybe it just plopped out as it were.

The bokboks better not be regularly eating eggs. I do not think that behavior is easily changed, so egg-eaters typically are elminated from the flock. While I would not necessaily do that, if they do regularly eat eggs I could not get more hens and keep them together as the new ones would learn bad habits. Ya, egg eating is definitely a capital offense.

Amanda made a asparagus risotto for dinner with sauteed mushrooms on the side. She made a soy burger for the Kai because he hates risotto.

I spent a lot of time with the Kai sorting out his legos with him. He was pleased with our progress throughout the evening.

The kiddies are asleep now. Amanda sounds like she is talking work stuff with someone on the phone, although I do not believe she is still on call.