Stirring up Food

Today I mowed the grass. My chickens know that when I mow, the grasshoppers and bug move. So they will hang around where I mow. Sometimes I would have to go real slow so they would get out of the way. I didn't really want to scare them, so I had to ease around them. I have all day, right?

Hot Dog for a Chili Dog

Chili has a little hot dog stuffed toy she likes to play with. Someone took it outside and let it get washed with the rain. But it is clean now; and believe it or not---dry. So, she is playing fetch with her toy and here comes Oscar thinking he is going to take it. No, no, no.

Now, I'm not throwing it fast enough. If I pause, she will bark and let me know; get with it.

And Skylar is playing Frisbee. I love it when she picks up all four feet and sails up and catches it. This time she just jumped up to get it.

That's Mine

Skylar was playing with the duck when Oscar snatched it. Just because he has one just like it at his house, he believes he will just take this one and play with it. Skylar was snatching it back.

Yea! Sunshine

We finally had sunshine this afternoon. And it was a nice cool day. It is going to get cooler; yea again. I bet we have had over twenty inches of rain in the last month or so. We played Frisbee and enjoyed the sunshine.

Chili only felt like catching one today.

Later she did a little soaking up rays on the porch; I read while soaking up a few rays.

Skylar On Guard

Around one or one thirty this afternoon I was in the house reading. Skylar was on the front porch. Oscar and Chili was in the house napping (maybe I was napping also in between reading). Skylar went bounding off the porch; Chili and Oscar immediately started barking. When I went out, of course, I didn't see anything. But I walked down to the edge of the woods. Skylar never left that spot; she just kept watching the woods. She even had a Frisbee in her mouth for awhile; but would not leave that spot. I took these pictures about thirty minutes after I went back in the house. Oscar was laying down watching the woods also, but when I opened the front door, he jumped up and turned around.
Skylar finally picked up her Frisbee and came back up. I see I should have zoomed in a little to see her better. If you can't see her just enlarge. She probably saved a chicken today.

Baby Opossum

Last night I set the trap and caught a baby opossum instead of a grown one. The trap, which is located behind the chicken house, is baited with cat food. They love cat food. I had gone out to let the chickens out, but Oscar found it first. He spent two hours out there barking at the baby opossum. At least he couldn't get to it.
Later, I just let him loose in the woods. I didn't have time to relocate him. I'll try to catch some more later this week.

The chickens stopped and paused for a second with all the noise Oscar was making; then they decided to go ahead and eat.

Yesterday morning when I went out to get my newspaper, a coyote crossed the road about fifty yards from me. He was crossing and coming back in the woods on my side of the road. I guess he was heading back to his den. This was about seven am. After I let the chickens out, I walked back through the woods to make sure he wasn't lurking out there.

P.S. You would think Oscar lives here.

First Ameraucana Egg

And it's not blue-green. It is just a light brown. Cindy, the one without the tufted ears, is the one that laid. She had been sitting on a nest in the shed and when Lindy, (who was on a nest on the other side) started squawking and came out of the shed; so did Cindy. So, naturally, I thought she wasn't going to lay an egg. Then she just stood there and popped one out. That was Saturday. She laid another one yesterday, but not today. Last night while I was working on the blog, Chili was trying to build her a little nest on the bed.

One day last week, Addie Cat was sleeping in the rocking chair on the front porch. The blue rain poncho is pretty comfy, I guess. As soon as she heard the camera click. She got up and went under the porch. It has been raining all day; and is forecast to rain all week; AGAIN ALL WEEK AGAIN. It finally stopped for a while about three so I could go out and feed all the animals.