I'm back
I survived my mini-collapse, and have been digging my routines back out for the past few days. I hope it was worth it. I'm all sugar free now (again), so I hope that transition was worth a week's lost productivity.
All is well. Cheeks persists, and is gunning for permanent house chicken status, like a pet parrot; the ten untimely chicks are all well and growing their feathers; all the birds are fine but getting cranky about the GH confinement, and my hives are all still alive.