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Mister Possum–Re-visited

Mister Possum–Re-visited

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~~~Try My Posts on SubStack/Click Here~~~~~ Mister Possum is still in the neighborhood….. …..he’s now considering our little homestead his tromping grounds….. Even as possums go…he’s nasty looking….. …..he’s been around the block a few times…tripped off the curb…gotten run over…but he keeps coming up swinging….. I’ve got to admire his chutzpah…I’ll give him that….. …..but he’s a flea-bitten limping geriatric nuisance….. And I can’t shoot him….. …..because Doctor Brigid said so….. He’s…

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*Continued Milton Clean-Up*

*Continued Milton Clean-Up*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Hurricane Milton blew out one of the walls of the chicken coop….. I felt bad for the old biddies…when we checked on the outside damage the next morning after Milton had passed….. …..and we saw them all sitting on their normal perches…but their fluffy backsides were exposed to the entire front yard….. We were able to keep them temporarily safe with some quickly nailed up wood scraps….. …..but a permanent fixed needed to…

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Milton Left A Mess

Milton Left A Mess

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** There’s so much to clean-up….. So much….. ~~~But We Are Still Counting Our Blessings~~~ There are so many branches and leaves everywhere (and down our chimney in the den)….. The trees all look bare….. Multiple burn piles are necessary…but things are so soggy…it’s hard to keep one going….. …..unless it’s an electrical vehicle…with a battery that’s been exposed to salt water…(flooding from the Gulf of Mexico)….. …..and then you can’t put out the…

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Snakes On A Plane!

Snakes On A Plane!

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Nope…it’s not really “Snakes On A Plane”!….. …..it’s more like…”Snakes In The Coop”!….. …..again….. And my reactive vocabulary was strikingly the same….. …..(and not printable)….. I thought we might eke through this summer without being up close & personal with any snakes….. But…alas…it was not meant to be….. Unfortunately…chickens attract predators….. They seem to run around cackling and wearing sandwich-signs saying they are available as tasty/crunchy treats….. They’re considered the personal drive-thru snack…

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Insomnia & The Palmetto Bug

Insomnia & The Palmetto Bug

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Palmetto Bugs are the Humvee-Half-Track vehicles of the bug world….. You can easily hear them clattering down a tile hallway….. Armadillos…alligators…and palmetto bugs have successfully reached their peak on the evolutionary scale…they have evolved into perfect self-sustaining creatures….. …..well…armadillos haven’t learned how to survive crossing a road yet….. …..and palmetto bugs can’t out run a chicken either….. But…alligators….. …..yep…they’re at the perfected-top of their evolutionary ladder…and I will leave them well enough alone…right…

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~~~Ants And Pants~~~

~~~Ants And Pants~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* More accurately….. Spiders in Patrice….. …..*****(What’s A “Patrice” Again?)*****….. I’m surprised I can write about this so soon after the event….. It still gives me terminal Willies just re-thinking it….. *****…..but no spiders were harmed in the production of this story…..***** …..(However…I did almost un-do all of my previous cardiac ablations)….. You see…I was innocently trying to clear out (by hand) excessive clumps of spider webs in the chicken coop….. The webs down…

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~~~Serendipitous & Tricksey Sabine~~~

~~~Serendipitous & Tricksey Sabine~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Maybe this post should more accurately be called…”The Saga of Sabine”….. This poor ole’ hound…she’s still not the sharpest knife in the drawer….. …..and her nose keeps getting her in trouble….. She’s the kind of hound my Father would’ve  loved….. He’d say she’s perfect…not too smart…all hound-business & focus…with a decent enough nose….. …..that dog’ll hunt….. You might remember that the chicken coop is just off of my bedroom….. …..it’s through a glass…

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***DON’T MESS WITH MY DUCKS***

***DON’T MESS WITH MY DUCKS***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …………………(Ode to Caesar…continued)………………… …..(but this is still re-hashing the night prior to going into the hospital the last time)….. ………….(I haven’t gone in again)…(phew)…………. …..after the initial attack & Caesar’s demise…all was quiet for a little bit that night….. I kept reading…and listening (remember…the coop is right off my bedroom window)….. AND DAMN!…if there wasn’t a thump and a quiet kerfuffle in the coop a little after 1:00am….. I was prepared for a…

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~Ode to Caesar~

~Ode to Caesar~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The night before being sent to the hospital….. I was (again) defending the homestead…outside…in the dark…in my pajamas…in the mud…after a storm….. But I’m getting ahead of myself….. At my normal bedtime…while conducting my “normal night time check-list”….. …..I noticed that there was only ONE (1) (une) (uno) twitchy duck in the coop(?)….. …..alarms and whistles were set off…additionally there were only a minimal amount of quaking chickens in the coop too….. …..most…

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***Disappointed Poultry***

***Disappointed Poultry***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sometimes the best stories…don’t have any documentation or proof they even happened….. It’s usually because they happened in the squalling rain…or at midnight…or during an otherwise/inhospitable environment….. …..and pulling out a phone or a camera to chronicle the event…just doesn’t seem prudent….. Last night was one of those events….. I’m usually pretty good with farm-routines…I’ve become a trained/circus-dog over the years….. And…like I’ve said before (on many occasions)…a secure chicken coop is a…

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