Right on, dude! Sounds like a plan!
I'm also going to try to squeeze in a little bit of Final Fantasy Dimensions II while we play. Since some of it's plot is what was originally Chrono Break, it makes sense to have the plot actually understood and archived for analysis. I'm going to be doing that, but only playing in like 30-minute increments once a week -- I don't have time to do it all now, so I'll have to chip away at it week by week for the next year or so.
In other news, it's finally the holiday season and I have a few days off. I'm beyond excited. We're doing some traveling to visit family, so I'll be offline entirely for a few days. What are you guys doing for Christmas? Any fun Filipino traditions that would stand out?
We also lost one of our chickens yesterday. We started with 8 chicks about 3.5 years ago, and surprisingly all of them made it to adulthood. We ended up losing some here and there - a few to dogs, one to a hawk attack, etc. We've also added a few as people who have "pet" chickens decide they no longer want them, so we slowly introduce them to our flock.
One of those was a little cream-colored bantam brahma, who my kids named Marigold. She was the smallest chicken by far, and my Americauna and Brahma often pushed her around just due to the norms of chicken pecking order. She eventually got tired of it and decided that she no longer wanted to roost with the other chickens, and she would fly into a nearby tree and perch for the night. She was surprisingly intelligent and affectionate for a chicken, and liked to be pet and hand-fed.
Hawks and even an owl have made a play at her before (due to her size), but they finally won out yesterday. We found a tuft of white feathers near the coop, and it's clear that there was a struggle. We found a few feathers across the field headed to nearby woods, which is where we know both the hawks and owls live. Alas, but it's the natural circle of life.
Our chickens are sort of like pets, so my kids were a little sad. But again, they recognize it as the natural course of things. They still won't let me harvest any of our chickens for meat, though, hahaha! We're going to get some more in the spring and expand our flock. It'll never be as large as yours, but a dozen or so for eggs would be good.
