Martha sounds like a real champ, I had a Buff Orpington named Goldie that did the same thing for me back in 2021. She hatched 7 out of 9 after my fancy Styrofoam bator kept dropping the humidity like crazy. I think the issue is these machines give you a false sense of control, you check the numbers but the air pockets or the turning mechanism screws up somewhere you can't see. A hen knows when to get off, when to stay, and she flips those eggs way more natural. Now I just keep a couple broody hens around every spring and save the $220 for chicken feed.

Ngl that napkin's probably seen more creative thinking than half the stuff on social media right now. At least it's not another "live laugh love" quote, I'll take the existential dread over that any day.

You're totally right about the older sites being the ones that get you. We found an old cistern on a property from the 1920s that way, no records anywhere in the county files. The tracker hit a weird spot and we dug down maybe three feet and hit brick. Saved us from dropping a foundation right on top of it.