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I had a hectic Friday and lost track of when Sue's coming home. Is it today?
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I had a hectic Friday and lost track of when Sue's coming home. Is it today?
No, the 9th.Good morning
Good evening Bob.Good morning folks
Good evening Bob.
Hey Bob, I'm about ready for bed...
Good. Get your rest. Mrs BY Bob is baking somill be up a while yet. Good night.
Good evening folks
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Adventures of the Escapee.
That Aoife was out of the run will not be news to anybody here. Yesterday she decided that squatting for me was so Millenial & a couple of circuits round the run with me in pursuit was the way to go! So off we went, Aoife @ a gentle trot, me rather more slowly & carefully. The fishing rod was propping open the coop door so I was on my own 2 trotters.
There are a number of obstacles on this crazy circuit, mostly tree roots & a nasty native vine with prickles, whos days are numbered once I find the secateurs, but as we come round the corner nearest the house there are about 4 sleepers lined up next to the run ready for the next stage of the extension & all my escapees like to squeeze between the sleepers & the wire where it is hardest for me to nab them. So Aoife happily scooted into the space, secure in the knowledge that I was much to old & slow to nab her before she was ready to be nabbed ~ only she had miscalculated badly! Sitting in all his mottled & white majestic glory @ the other end of her escape route was Marlow! I've never seen a chicken so flabbergasted! She didn't know whether to run the gauntlet & chance Marlow or backtrack hastily into my waiting hands. She chose my hands ~ & we had a nice little cuddle while she told me it was terribly unfair & a mean dirty trick to wrangle in outsiders like that!
Ten minutes later she tried again. Round we went & ~ Bang into Marlow again! Aoife was not impressed! We got all the squwaks & protests!
At least it was Marlow. He just looked @ her like she was the imp from Hades that she undoubtedly is & asked me what I thought I was doing cuddling that crazy bird when he was available? Kirby had had a kill that morning & it always rouses his blood instincts so he is never fully trusted around the chickens but Marlow is pretty mellow.
That Aoife was out of the run will not be news to anybody here. Yesterday she decided that squatting for me was so Millenial & a couple of circuits round the run with me in pursuit was the way to go! So off we went, Aoife @ a gentle trot, me rather more slowly & carefully. The fishing rod was propping open the coop door so I was on my own 2 trotters.
There are a number of obstacles on this crazy circuit, mostly tree roots & a nasty native vine with prickles, whos days are numbered once I find the secateurs, but as we come round the corner nearest the house there are about 4 sleepers lined up next to the run ready for the next stage of the extension & all my escapees like to squeeze between the sleepers & the wire where it is hardest for me to nab them. So Aoife happily scooted into the space, secure in the knowledge that I was much to old & slow to nab her before she was ready to be nabbed ~ only she had miscalculated badly! Sitting in all his mottled & white majestic glory @ the other end of her escape route was Marlow! I've never seen a chicken so flabbergasted! She didn't know whether to run the gauntlet & chance Marlow or backtrack hastily into my waiting hands. She chose my hands ~ & we had a nice little cuddle while she told me it was terribly unfair & a mean dirty trick to wrangle in outsiders like that!
Ten minutes later she tried again. Round we went & ~ Bang into Marlow again! Aoife was not impressed! We got all the squwaks & protests!
At least it was Marlow. He just looked @ her like she was the imp from Hades that she undoubtedly is & asked me what I thought I was doing cuddling that crazy bird when he was available? Kirby had had a kill that morning & it always rouses his blood instincts so he is never fully trusted around the chickens but Marlow is pretty mellow.
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The girls happily @ it. They are getting very restricted run time just now, thanks to all my chronic escapees. They have got too cocky for their own good.
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I arrived @ the mailbox on Friday with Aoife in my arms & our mail lady, who keeps chickens herself & whos flock free ranges & lays in eveyrbodys yard but hers, took one look, rolled her eyes & said: Escapee? Yep. At which point she confessed they had just built their girls a brand new coop & yep, everybody's already found their way out!!!
already found their way out!!!
That should certainly help one appreciate Australia!It’s the Aussie thing to do, go and live in London for a couple of years.
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