Well, there goes Day 1 of 2014 and all I have to show for it is a group of three renegrade chooks patrolling my back yard. I moved the ISA Brown chooks from the chook house into the big dog run by one of our sheds so that I could move the two new bantam mothers, Omelette and Ham'n, and their one remaining chick each into the chook house with EB (short for Eggs Benedict) the proud father bantam rooster. The ISA chooks tried to devour all the other chickens so they had to go. They are escape artists and were free from the dog run within an hour and now I can't catch the wretched birds. I think Ferdinand the Fox will have a delicious chook supper tonight.... and serve them right for making me chase them in futile effort in pouring rain.

Alma thanks for the update and I am very sorry about the outcome. I hope you are able to get some sewing done. I am still excavating my sewing room and have to collect a car tomorrow so will not have much time after a 2 hour journey each way. Maybe we need a saying sewing yesterday, sewing tomorrow but never sewing today

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by almag 02 Jan 2014

A new car for a new year??? Your saying pretty much sums me up.

To end the saga of the Renegade Trio.........
My dear son sauntered up the hill from his property with the little grandsons last evening to make a decent door to the dog run. While he worked hard with wire and tools, young Flynn, now 5, showed me how he would ward off the fox with an old frying pan and much loud noise and Hamish, now 9, ran errands for his Dad. A beautiful door was finished by 9 p.m. and off the working party went, Flynn still telling the valley in his fog-horn voice how he protected Nana's chooks.
This morning all was quiet and when I looked in the dog run all I found was feathers. To this minute I still do not know how the fox got into the pen, or out again, but he did his damage there and my renegade trio is no longer an issue. Sad, but true. I shed a passing tear as I tucked into two ISA Brown eggs for brekky this morning and farewelled those rough, tough, eating, egg-laying birds from my chook yard forever....
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You started the new year right - plenty of exercise. LOL Tomorrow the remaining chooks may be ready for the pen as they have escaped F. the Fox.

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by almag 01 Jan 2014

You're right about the exercise. Those chooks ran under every tree and bush, around the bantam house more times than I can count and then they were just herded gently into the dog run by my big son as though they'd been doing it forever. Well, they afforded me the best night's sleep I've had for months. There does seem to be a rainbow at the end of every chook race.

One word. Shotgun?

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by jrob 01 Jan 2014

O.K. one word isn't enough. I'm sorry I laughed....
I pray tomorrow brings sunshine and sewing and hubby getting so much better they send him home.

by almag 01 Jan 2014

Thankyou for the empathy and the good wishes.
Today I am free from frustration and the sun is shining.

I am with you on the frustration. Can you imagine how well I could hoop a project or cut out fabric while being dizzy. I think both of us can have a pass right now. I hope your husband will be OK.

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by almag 01 Jan 2014

I do hope that you recover from that awful vertigo very, very soon. I'm going to try to capture some of each day just for me...... hmmm, how long will that effort last!!!

Perhaps if you put the Chicken Run DVD on they might come in and watch. Alma sounds like you have had quite a start to 2014, I can assure you it will improve. Tomorrow is but another day AND Happy New Year to you

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by almag 01 Jan 2014

Well, tomorrow has come and it is better. The rain has stopped and my bantam house is peaceful again.

Bless your heart. I know how frustrated I got yesterday simply because DH arranged/ required my presence away from home 7 hours during a day of Designs by SICK free hourly giveaways. Aargh!

If I were you, I'd have had CHICKEN for dinner!

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by almag 01 Jan 2014

Ha!!! Ferdinand, and his cousin, Reynard, both had a New Year's Day chicken dinner party last night.