Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes.

I had a productive day up until about 2:00 when it started to rain. At that point I decided it was time for a cup of hot coffee and a brownie. In retrospect that was the right decision.

Pet peeve: every person outside of North Korea knows how to leave a message. We do NOT need to be told we can leave a message, nor do we need instructions to wait for the beep and then hang up or press pound for further options. (Though I confess to wondering what those further options are. Maybe they include a way to opt out of that annoying set of useless instructions.)

At yesterday's pacemaker check I learned that my heart's upper chamber is getting zapped 4% of the time and my lower chamber's wire kicks in 3.9% of the time. (Or the other way around; it doesn't really matter.) If this rate continues the battery will last eight more years.
Interestingly, they don't change the batteries like you do in a flashlight. They open you up and replace the whole pacemaker, hooking it up to the wire leads that remain in place.
The tech could look at the record stored on my pacemaker and identify every day and time that it kicked in, and which chamber got the jolt. I was surprised to learn that the last incident was at 7:30 that morning. I was out feeding goats at the time and have no recollection of any sensation - either needing or getting a jolt. It happened shortly after midnight too, when I was sound asleep.
Kind of weird knowing that's going on and that I'm completely unaware. What would happen if I didn't have the pacemaker? Would Pam find me unconscious (or dead) on the floor with three goats standing over me bawling for breakfast?

Another one of the hens got broody. I did the fake plastic eggs bit and gave her three weeks. Then I pulled the eggs and kicked her off the nest. An hour later she was back on an empty next. Apparently actually having eggs to set isn't all that necessary. I kicked her off the nest four or five times and posted about it on Facebook which generated comments and feedback about a "Broody Buster."

It seems hens want a place that's warm and dark to set their eggs. Some people (I heard from one of them on FB) hold an icepack against their butt to chill the blood vessels but the consensus is that's cruel and unusual punishment. The preferred way is to isolate them from the flock and give them a cage with a wire floor off the ground where cool air can circulate and they can't create a warm or dark space. I read that the longer they've been broody the longer it takes to break and that it's another 3-4 weeks before they start laying again. Wish I'd have known all this three weeks ago. If you do this as soon as you know they're broody it can all be over with in a week or less.

More to write but tonight was our small group, we're now home, I've had my coffee and brownie (yes, two brownies today), and it's time for bed. I'll get the rest of it in tomorrow's post.