"Shopping: the fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have." - unknown

What a day!
I started early with chores. I fed the goats and chickens and saw two hens in one nest box. Not unheard of, but odd, especially since it looked like one of those hens was in that same nest box last night. Hmmmm. Another broody hen?
The problem with a flock of Rhode Island Reds is that they all look the same. Is the hen on that nest the same one that was hunkered down there last night?
So I came back up to get my can of Ford Blue spray paint I used for Sally's valve cover and air cleaner and went back to give both those hens a bright blue spot on their butt. Later in the day I saw one of the Blue Spotted Rhode Island Reds (a relatively new breed) out in the yard scratching for bugs. But sure enough the other one was still in that same nest box when Pam collected eggs at 3:30.
Not anymore! She's now getting a time out. I moved her to the broody box (really loud protestations) where she'll spend the rest of the weekend. By Monday she should be done with that nonsense and ready to put back with the rest of the flock.

I got a second coat of mud on the drywall. The second coat is the easiest. None of the taping of the first coat, no sanding between it and the second coat, and the careful feathering of the third isn't necessary, so #2 goes quickly.

I patched the hole in the floor that was under the old wood stove and also plugged the hole in the kitchen where I took out that railing.
The good news: Pam likes the railing gone. We agree that not having that barrier between the kitchen and the living room makes the space feel bigger. "Open concept."

Mid morning we went into town. The new stove has to sit on an "ember barrier" that can be any non-combustible material. We wanted slate but it's almost impossible to cut and this corner installation requires a 45 degree angle across the front of this barrier so we went looking for a 12"x12" porcelain tile that looks like slate. At the fourth stop we found one we both like that was a discontinued tile and deeply discounted. We bought 20 tiles (I need 16 so that allows for some error) and paid $1.49 each. That's about a dollar less than what we didn't like at Home Depot (nothing that worked at Lowe's) and $3 less than the tile store we went to first. SCORE!
Lunch at Wendy's and home.

In between all of that....

I have a couple of car sites I visit at least daily and one of them, Barnfinds.com, had a listing for an auction in Vancouver WA about 150 miles north of us. One of the interesting cars on the docket is a 1960 Metropolitan. (Most people refer to it as a Nash Metropolitan though by 1960 Nash had been bought out by what would become AMC.) After a lot of research on everything from the car's specs to current values we've decided to spend tomorrow on an adventure. We'll leave here about 7:30 to drive up there because we have conflicting information. Their web site says the auction starts at 10:00 and the guy I talked to on the phone said the cars will be auctioned starting at 2:00. Both are possible because this is an estate sale with a LOT of household stuff, so that may start at 10:00 and the cars at 2:00. But we don't want to drive all the way up there (two and a half hours) to find out the auction is over.
I'll spare you all the fascinating details about a Metropolitan, but they are cool little cars - a subcompact before that term had been invented. A great 40 mpg, only 1,800 pounds, and smaller than a VW Beetle of the same year.
Based on the 14 pics on the web site (this is one of them) it's in very good shape and the guy said it started which a battery jump. Current values range from a low of about $7k and a high of $35k. So this could be either a quick flip to make a few bucks or a fun driver. Of course that all depends on what bids are.
I'll keep you posted.

Because Pam was in AZ for a week and I was under very strict orders not to watch any of the BBC detective shows we record we have lots of episodes to catch up on. We watched half of the most recent 90-minute episode of The Tunnel before dinner (goat) and we're going to finish it now.
It has become a bit macabre but we're hooked and can't stop now.