Love in the Afternoon
It was a lovely Sunday afternoon at the Chickendads. With all the new babies living there, the Chickendads decided to set up some new and bigger brooder pens for the older babies so they could run and play. This necessitated moving the small ameraucana coop out of the garage and onto the green grass which the ameraucanas greeted with much joy and wing flapping. The Chickendads swept up all the wood shavings in the garage and used the leaf blower to get into all the nooks and crannies. Mrs. Chickendad is convinced that the leaf blower is one of the greatest inventions since the automatic dishwasher, although it does nothing to improve her hairstyle.
The babies moved into their larger pens and when last observed were happily digging and flopping in the clean shavings.
Meanwhile, it was time for Chickie Lou to go on her honeymoon. After careful observation, Mrs. Chickendad selected Captain (“Cappy”) as Chickie Lou’s husband. Leroy was not particularly happy about the selection, figuring seniority should have taken precedence, so he spent a fair amount of time challenging Cappy through the fence and keeping him distracted from his husbandly duties. Chickie Lou went and hid out in the little dogloo shelter until the silly boys settled their differences. Cappy didn’t even notice she was there until Leroy went off to harass someone else.
When it came time for lockup, Chickie Lou and Cappy went in the dogloo. Mrs. Chickendad opened the pen and called for them and they came running to her like puppies. She scooped them up and put them in an inside pen where they would be warm and safe. She didn’t want anything awful to happen to them on their honeymoon!