Hi All,
from the roaring 40's. An interesting weather day today, temperature around 5C, wind around 70km/h, sunshine(little), rain(lots), snow(little), hail(some), power failures(several). Needless to say not much was done outside today. Walter, Johnny and I spent most of our time across the road painting the house. The pressure is now on a bit as we have a prospective tenant. However with the three of us working on it we should knock it over fairly quickly.
The highlight of the day apart from everyone complaining about the weather was the 5th and missing chicken. In one of my frequent returns back to the resort she came scampering and clucking across the carpark to say feed me. i did recognise her as she has the shortest comb of the older hens. She was alone at the feed bins so i gave here a good scoop. Johnny meantime showed up ready to paint. I told him his mission was to follow the chicken and find out where she went. He returned with his rain jacket and queried " did i get this job because i am useless at everything else". Reassured this was not the case he took up the challenge. He ventured to the house about half an hour later mission complete. Although it was a near thing as she disappeared behind the hay stack. He had visions of having to confess to the whole group that he had been outwitted by a chicken. Mind you he is welsh! However after searching he was able to locate her under the remains of 2 water tanks stacked on top of each other. I popped up for a look as I had searched this area. She was very hard to see, a hands and knees job and if you didn't know she was there you wouldn't have seen her. Peering through the crack between the tanks i could see 2 eggs. I will check the exact number when she comes out for her next feed. Tomorrow I shall attempt a picture for the archives. Failing that it will be one from Johnny's phone cam.
I am sure the weather will improve tomorrow. It couldn't get much worse. It is still diabolical outside. Hopefully Morphine and Fanfan are not having too rough a time on their holiday.
Night Folks
Cheers Simon
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