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…
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…
Two visits this weekend I wasn’t expecting: animal and machine. Let’s start with the four-legged variety first. I’ll say this wasn’t totally unexpected. I know our chicken yard is enticing to all sorts of semi-wild animals in the neighborhood. If I…
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…
We are social animals–we relate more to chimpanzees as they survive through amity than in the hawk soaring alone. Necessary to our survival and growth as a species has been our willingness to care for other living creatures. Short of…
Five points for the first reader who can place that quote. Now then, where was I? Yes, we were talking about chickens some days ago and how we’d yet to see an egg. This weekend we got one, precious as…