My wacky Wednesday...

Well, wacky isn't really the way to describe it. I honestly don't know why I put that. I have a bad habit of putting misleading titles. None of which is good for my readers. Nothing draws people in like, "My wacky Wednesday!" Sigh... The title should have been, "Thank God it's Wednesday and I don't have to work!"

Okay, time to get on point! LaVaughn and I FINALLY managed to sew poor Kyan's set today. It should have been done ages ago, but that kind of stuff is nearly impossible to do when you have family over. Cause you have to try and work around them without making them feel like they're in the way.

Before that, LaVaughn and I played around with our new turkey. Actually, playing around isn't the best way to put it, lol. We weren't out there frolicking around and playing tag, we were just offering her blades of grass. Which she happily took. I love that she was a hand raised turkey and is actually friendly! I'm beginning to think Tom Friendly isn't the best name for our other turkey...

After all of that was said and done, we got a message from Annette on Facebook telling us to call Bourbon. Weird, right? Bourbon is like a bonding guru when it comes to gliders. Everyone knows who she is. I've never talked to her on the phone before, only through emails and Facebook. So you can imagine how weird it was for me to call her up and be all, "Hey, how's it going?"

Well, the phone call was short of amazing! She offered to take our boys from Annette's to her place in Tennessee and meet us in Kentucky with them next week!!! How insane is that!? She's currently hanging out at Annette's until she heads to the SGGA in Texas later tonight. She's planing on staying the night with Annette Sunday and then heading home Monday. Possibly with our boys in hand!!

So there's a 97% chance that we'll have our boys next week!

The only thing that's making us not want to do it is Annette. We're afraid of hurting her feelings by not coming down to pick the up and see her. We've already assured her that we're still planing on coming down within the next couple months. It would just help SO much to get them now, then come down in the off season when the weather is cooler and things are cheaper. Decisions, decisions...

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Isn't she a beautiful turkey?

Harley stays with the turkeys ALL the time!

She loves to be fed grass. Not that you can tell here, lol.

These are some of our newest chicks. I don't believe I mentioned that one of them died. Well, actually one was murdered by a snake!!

She has such beautiful eyes.

Fantastic turkey head shot.

She kind of looks like a black eyed demon here, lol. Perhaps we should call her... Meg!

She kind of looks like a BBW here.

That would be broad breasted white. ;)

The rarely photographed, Lacy. Isn't she pretty? :)

Our majestic yard.

The lighting was SO beautiful today!

A wood pile. This is actually my peach tree that was murdered. :(

A tiny transparent spider.

A spider in its web in the sunlight.

Random wood pile picture.

Here's Kyan's set that we sewed.

This was taken yesterday morning. Check out the yellow hue!

It was getting ready to rain/storm.

More of the yellow sky.

Insert blog title here...

I am seriously so sick of trying to think of blog titles. I know I've complained about this before, but it's just so hard sometimes! And I hate using the same title more than once, that drives me crazy!

Anyways, the main reason I wanted to blog today was because I needed to fill you all in on what's going on with Hadley! You remember the chick that was planing on getting her, the one that already paid for her? Well she's not getting her anymore! She messaged a couple days ago and started asking questions about her lineage, which she didn't approve of. First, let me explain that...

Pip has a full lineage, it's Sadie's that is spotty. Sadie had a full lineage when we first paired her with Pip. Then after a while, Annette and the guy that added Sadie's dad's lineage removed it when he and Annette got into an argument. This was a BIG deal on Facebook for a while, then it simmered down. Sadie does have lineage, it's just not there anymore, which really sucks on our end. It doesn't matter now that Pip's neutered, but it did knock Hadley out of a home. :(

Athena (the chick that was getting Hadley) said she really hated doing it, but she just didn't want to add bad lineaged gliders to her breeding pairs and wanted to spend the money on a different glider. So now, we have to wait on our Paypal check to come in the mail and then send it right back, lol.

I'm not overly upset about it though, I don't want Hadley going to someone that doesn't want her.

After all this happened, I was telling Kelsey - the chick that was getting Charli and Avon - and she said she would love to take Hadley! Kelsey has had no intentions of breeding from the very beginning, so lineage isn't a problem. She also said she would take Sadie and Pip's next joey, no matter what it was. So now that Pip is neutered, Hadley will just stay with her parents until her younger sibling is OOP and weaned, then they will go to Kelsey.

In other news... We got a new turkey!! She's a beautiful all white turkey that has the most gorgeous eyes! And the kicker... she's friendly! This chick that my aunt got her from hand raised her, so she's actually not scared of people! I'm not sure what breed she is, at first I was think a Broad Breasted White (BBW, lol), but she doesn't really look like one. I'll have to ask my aunt. We also haven't though of a name for her yet. We shall see!

Well, I suppose that's all for now, until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's our new turkey!

See how big she is? And she's only 3 months old!!

She also has a beautiful face. :)

Harley the duck. He's looking much better!

Mr. Tom Friendly

Harley and Lilith.

Harley and Lilith again. I think they're a couple. ;)

Some of our White Leghorns.

Lilith

Fresh eggs!

Sleepy Zoe.

And now for some Una selfies:

Goodbye cruel world...

Well today was the unbelievably nerving day of Pip's neuter. LaVaughn and I have been a wreck ever since I called yesterday. And, of course, we have been expecting the worst!

We got there and got called straight back. The vet, who's seriously awesome, explained the procedure to us and said that it seems very easy and should go very well. That lifted out spirits a little and allowed us to breath easier for a little while... then she took him. :(

We got lots of online support yesterday from all the lovely people in the glider community. We asked a million questions about pom on and pom off neuters. Our vet was planing a pom off, so that's what we were concerned about. But still, several people assured us that pom off neuters were just as safe as pom on. We got SO much support and information from Val, a glider illness guru, she really helped.

We waited in the exam room for about 15-20 minutes, then it was over. She came out with him all balled up in his pouch and he seemed the same as when he left. She kept him in the back there while he was waking up and let him gnaw on the apple that we brought. That is the scariest part of having a glider sedated! But all was well. Pip was a great little boy during the whole process and even snacked on some yoggies after. He even jumped out on us and hopped back and forth for a while. This really amused people, lol.

So now were home and happy as can be. Not only do we have our first neuter out of the way, but we're down a breeding pair! Yay!!

I know this is kind of off subject, but we saw loads of wildlife on the way home. We saw about 10 wild turkeys, a couple deer, and a turtle Good stuff, lol.

Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's a photo compilation of Mr. Pip after his neuter:

Sleepy boy.

He was cleaning himself here.

He's such a precious boy!!

He is a sleeping sugar glider angel. <3 p="">

So precious!

Here's the deer.

 Last one...

And now for a couple videos:

First of three...

Today marks the start of my 3 days off. I freaking love the way my schedule is now, I just hope I can keep it. If it were up to Bruce, I believe I could. Cassie wont hardly listen to me. And when we get to talk on the phone, I'm always being rush or have to call back..

Anyway, that's beside the point.

We finally cut into some of our fleece today. It's for this really nice guy named Kyan in STL. We're working on the blue butterflies that we order. The set is going to look awesome when it's sewn. At least I hope. We have family staying with us at the moment, so it's really hard to get any sewing done because we don't want to be rude, you know?

You remember the 3 little turkeys that we got a while back? Well all but one of them died. And believe it or not, it was the smallest one that lived (fingers crossed). She's so cute though, she follows Mr. Friendly around all the time. I've also decided to name her, Lilith. Hopefully she doesn't end up being a boy, lol. I guess we'll change it to Lucas or something.

When I went to gather eggs a little while ago I found 4 in the coupe! We only have 5 of age hens right now, so that's a pretty good find. Unfortunately, there's another snake down there stealing all our eggs... bastard.

In other, less exciting news... I called the vet today and scheduled Pip's neuter. :( He's getting snipped tomorrow at 3:00. I'm SO nervous! I mean, I'm excited because we finally found a local vet that will treat gliders, but she's completely new to gliders and has never done a neuter! I have complete faith in her though, she's really awesome. Please keep your fingers crossed for us!

I know this is completely random, but we just realized that the chick that's getting Avon makes these really awesome binding purses. We looked them over and realized just how awesome they were and decided to see if she'd be willing to make us a couple, just slightly larger than her largest one. She's getting a little boy from Tracy (our great grandson) and could use as many discounts as she can get, so we decided to do a partial trade with her. Each of our bonding purses will be about the size of a messenger bag and will hold 3 pouches each. Pretty awesome, eh? They're going to look awesome when they're done, I can't wait to get them!

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Isn't this butterfly fleece pretty?

Here's Lilith!

Mr. Tom Friendly's butt.

And now he's all wilted.

Lilith again.

I haven't named her yet...

The 4 glorious eggs that I got today. :)