In animal news....I hate my chickens. The first year, they laid great. Now it's a month of good laying, a month or two of bad laying. They shouldn't stop laying except during brooding and molting. I've never seen anything like this. Yet these dumb assholes eat $60/mo in food even when they free range (not to mention the amount the rats I'm slowly killing off eat).
I left the coop open last night hoping a critter would eat them, but I may have killed them all. I'm hoping we'll get some high winds....I think they'll stay out in the yard in wind, just not heavy rain. I want to see if they can get blown away if we get TS gusts.