Our house is a zoo now. Saturday before last I caught a rat in our laundry room. The rat battle has been hard fought, as they foil my traps and scamper around in the attic, prancing and showing off. It…
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Chickens are Baffling
I don’t know why chickens do the things they do. And with their tiny pea-sized brains, I doubt they do either. For the last few weeks the chickens have been shunning their coop and roosting on top of it, crammed…
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Justice!
Remember my post a while back about barking dogs in our neighborhood? We have one nearby in particular that barks at everything that passes by in the street, from a roving pack of street thugs to a blowing leaf or…
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Plus One Beer, Minus One Chicken
Life’s about balance, right? Yesterday I got to bring the beer I’d brought to life a little over a month ago. I was so excited to taste it that I forgot to refrigerate it, something I only noticed halfway through.…
The Great Chicken Adventure
First there was one chicken, Ducky. She was given to us by a friend who’s chickens were pecking poor Ducky to bits while she molted and recovered from a possum bite. The life of a chicken isn’t kind, my friends.…
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