Okay any married ladies reading this, I'm just wondering. . . when your husband loses something, does he ask you what YOU did with it?
The Farmer may protest otherwise, but it seems to me that when something gets misplaced around here, I hold a very responsible position. That being that somehow, I'm always held responsible. Not to say I don't lose my fair share of stuff and then some, but it's not ALWAYS my fault when we can't find something.
Recent case in point... Saturday the delivery guy was here to repair our mailbox. (That's a story for another day...) He was setting the post in concrete, and asked The Farmer if he had a level.
Well, he does. A couple of them in fact. But he couldn't find his shorter level. Later that afternoon, when he was back inside, he wanted to know what project the Cave Geek and I had been working on, and what we'd done with his level.
I informed him we hadn't been near his level. I'm not sure he believed me.
Now fast forward from Saturday to this morning. We've got a bunch of roosters penned up, and one of the hens managed to crawl through a little hole and get in with them. Now one hen in with 9 or so roosters makes for a bad scene for the poor hen.
I managed to chase her inside their building, and shut the cat door leading inside.
Okay, I know that sounds weird to have a cat door in a chicken house, but cat doors really make great little doorways for chicken houses, because you've got a neat sliding panel you can take in and out. It really comes in handy sometimes, like today.
Anyway! I slid the panel shut on the cat door, and opened the people sized door to get the hen. Bet you can't guess what I found?!
How fowl! There's a level in the chicken house.
Yep, sure enough, there was the level The Farmer was looking for Saturday.
It's like this, sometime back he was putting in some new roosts for the roosters.
And I guess he wanted to be sure the roosters weren't tilting while they slept, and used his level to get the roosts... well, level!
Once I took a picture of the incriminating evidence, I carried the level around to The Farmer's workshop, and hung it on the peg board.
See, there it is! It's probably not in the exact spot The Farmer would hang it, but I don't think he can miss it. The level is back in place, and just so everyone knows....
I WAS NOT THE ONE WHO LOST IT!
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Yeah, but he’ll *never* find it now that you’d put it where it belongs!!
Well, since he couldn’t find it while it was hiding in the hen house either, I guess it won’t matter where it is, ha, ha!
My hubby doesn’t do that yet, because we have 3 kids and two dogs to blame for disappearing items. Mostly, he just asks where something is, before he ever even looks for it. At this time in my life, I know where EVERYTHING is. Your hubby should have called me. I would have known it was in with the roos.
Ceecee! I’m so glad to know someone who can tell me where to find things! Next time I”m looking for something, I’ll send you a note and let you tell me where it is! How cool!!!
At my house-it’s my girls who need help finding things : ) Very cute post!
Hi tipper… around here the kids are all grown, and they all flew from the nest. We do have the youngest back here for now, but point is… they’re big enough to look for their own stuff. Mostly it’s The Farmer who wonders what I’ve done with his stuff, ha, ha! Glad you enjoyed the post and thanks for stopping by.
Doesn’t quite do that but almost, the latest one went a bit like:
“where is my Camera?”
“I put it in that hessain shopping bag we took out yesterday”
“What one?”
“The one we always use, it’s in the living room”
Goes to living room, returns
“I can’t find the bag”
“It’s there, I put it there just a minute ago”
“It’s not there, what have you done with it?”
We walk back to the living room and, I kid you not, right in the middle of the floor (don’t ask why I put it there!), but right there was the bag.
“There it is”
“Oh yeah”
You can export this conversation and result into any situation that you can think of!!
LOL! Yeah, Rosie, I’m familiar with that too. That seems to be a definite “man thing.” Both The Farmer & the Cave Geek do that. I tell them EXACTLY where something is, they go look for it, come back and tell me they can’t find it, I walk to where I said it was and either point it out or pick it up, and they say, “oh”. Especially frequent when you send them to the KITCHEN. Maybe it’s such foreign territory or something, ha, ha!
I hear ya – it’s the same way in our home! Very funny post. Thanks for the laugh.
-Staci
Hi Staci! Glad you enjoyed it. And it’s good to know we’re not the only household that experiences this phenomena.