And the 30th made up for all the others

March 30th turned out to be a wonderful day! After 28 days of rain, it didn't rain once. The sun didn't shine much, but it was warmer and drier... and, quite simply, it was a day meant to be spent outside.

Do you know what this is?:

It's a Trillium. They've started to bloom!

Honey hen completely bypassed my arm this morning and went straight for the scratch bucket:

Skippy was totally taking notes:

Since the rain had stopped, it was finally time to try to fix the part of the fence my goat boys have been escaping through:

It sure isn't gonna look pretty, but you know what?

I'm the girl who's using orange baling-twine as fencing in the adjacent chicken pasture. I'm not too concerned with "pretty" at this point - it just needs to work:

And it does:

Because I could contain them again, look who got to come into the middle pasture and help me with pasture clean-up today:

And they were in prime helpful form, too:

Pete assisted by scratching his head:

rubbing his nose:

and licking the rake:

Reggie did his part by staring intently at me. This wasn't uncomfortable at all:

I'm always a little nervous when everyone is in one pasture together, especially Chester and the goats:

- but everyone did just fine.

I still would never leave Chester in the pasture alone with the goat boys. It just wouldn't be prudent:

But with me right there, raking up dead moss and dried blackberry brambles, everyone grazed peacefully:

Beau came over repeatedly for hugs and pats. He was very happy we were all outside together again:

There was even a bit of kissing going on:

After some time, I took a break:

and that's when I noticed the audience on the hill behind us:

It was then that George decided to scoot through the electric fence to be with us:

Reggie gets really intense when he's nervous about something. Neither he nor Pete care much for George. George just freaks them out for some reason:

This was as close as Pete would get. Big chicken:

Even when George went back on the other side of the fence, things were still a bit tense. Here's George:

And here are Pete and Reggie staring at George:

It was 8:04pm when I finally came inside for the evening. These are the days I have been waiting for! The air smells fresh, the frogs are croaking, I can be outside in a sweatshirt instead of my huge coat, and I can hear things growing.

Today was a really good day.

We all thought so: