In Need of a Makeover!

I finished the weekend all shiny, clean and refreshed....

Why is it that by Monday night I looked a bit more like this?....

Why?

It might have been due to the fact that I stowed about 120 bales of hay in the barn

yesterday afternoon.

Jim emptied the wagon and loaded the hay elevator, and I stacked the hay in the barn.

Sammy and TomTom helped in their usual way (not!).

And that was after I had canned 9 jars of ground cherry/orange jam,

and 8 jars of (really hot) hot pepper relish.

After throwing around hay bales, 

I raked the hay field in an attempt to dry the remaining hay.

Hopefully by the end of the week we can have the rest of the hay put away.

And so, here I am...

Monday evening...

wrung out, exhausted, and in need of mass quantities of chocolate....

(and a shower or a makeover!)

Actually, this is Ivanka, our Transylvanian Naked Neck Chicken...

in the midst of her yearly moult.

If you are new to raising chickens, prepare yourself for the shock

when your flock goes through their first moulting....

it's quite dramatic!