dead kitty

The farm drama of the day...a kitten somehow climbed up into the stock tank in the girls' corral and drowned. I discovered this about 2 hours ago when I was giving everyone their evening feed early so I could go down to Boulder to meet up with friends and not worry about being out late. best laid plans...

So I took care of burying the poor little one and then got to work on getting fresh, clean water to the girls. I ended up wimping out and after I emptied out the water in the tank (around 100gallons) I moved a 70-gallon stock tank from the big pasture into the girls corral and filled that up. It takes quite a while to fill up a tank like that. I was able to carry/drag the 70 gallon tank, but the bigger one I had to push out of the corral and into the yard.

I'm hoping the sun will kill off a lot of the weird green sludge and germs and dry the thing out before I disinfect it. I've got to make sure that bleach won't corrode the galvanized metal before I scrub it...anyone know?

So now I'm debating whether or not to drive in to Boulder for Happy Hour. I'm not feeling too happy and social, but maybe some good nosh and friends will be a good thing.

I find it interesting that big drama seems to happen on the farm when Michael is not around. I also find it interesting that the next book in my queue is Dante's Inferno. Every summer I read the Inferno and plan to read Purgatorio and Paradisio...I've only read Inferno (though this will be my 8th or 9th time)...and I checked out Purgatorio from the library. But more on Dante in a later blog, I think.