We had all kinds of exciting things happen here on Monday. First, it started with the chicken in the house. I had just taken Addy to school so I was home all alone in the middle of the day. I was in the bathroom and when I was finished I walked out of my bedroom and SURPRISE! There was a chicken in the hall right outside my bedroom door. It totally freaked me out because I had both of the sliding glass doors that open onto my patio open. My first thought was that I now knew what we were going to have for dinner - CHICKEN! My second thought was that this chicken did not open the screen door by herself. My third thought was WHO IN THE HECK DID??? I was certain that there was an intruder in my house. Then I saw that the living room screen door was not shut all the way and I remembered that right before I went into the bathroom, I had gone out of that door to chase that same dang chicken off of the patio. I left the screen open thinking I would turn right around and go back in. But instead I went in through the kitchen door. So once I established that it was only me and the chicken in the house, I went to work chasing her around the living room until I caught her and put her back out in the chicken yard. Then she immediately went back to the patio and pooped on it. Dang chicken!
That afternoon I picked Zac and Em up from school and then we picked up the other kids from the elementary. Zac had just made this Batman weapon thrower thingy (I can't remember what he called it) in shop. So he sat in the van and every time one of the elementary kids walked by he would hold it up and yell "BATMAN!" like a crazy person.
What made it worse was that his arm looks diseased. On Saturday he was helping Steve stain fence posts and he spilled stain all down his arm. It actually looks better in this picture than it did the first two days. His entire hand and arm were solid black when he went to church on Sunday. He probably scared all the little kids to death with his diseased arm yelling "BATMAN!" at them. I told him he should tell people that he has the same rare skin disease Michael Jackson had only it is having the reverse effect on him.
Then that night, as I was coming down the stairs, I happened to glance out the window just in time to see a white stripe walk into our chicken yard. It was dark so I could hardly see, but I was pretty sure that it was a skunk I was seeing. I ran and got Steve and he armed himself. We went out and walked all around the chicken yard, in the dark, looking for a skunk. Is that brave or what??? But alas the skunk was nowhere to be seen. A lot of the chickens were sleeping outside the coop and we thought it was because one was sitting right inside the door blocking the way for the rest of them. (It was probably that one dumb chicken that was in my house earlier that I am constantly running off my patio) So we pushed that chicken in the coop and started sticking the rest of them in there. The were not liking it one bit. So I decided to open the top of the coop and see what was going on inside there. This is what I found:
So to make a long story short, a whole brouhaha ensued. Zac and Em were roused from their beds. The four of us were trying to evacuate chickens from the coop. Which surprisingly they were unwilling to evacuate, for as much as they didn't like being shoved in there in the first place. Every time we would get them out, they would go back in. We were scared we were going to be sprayed. Anyhoo, the skunk is gone for good. I had to take a shower and wash all my clothes when I got back in the house. The house smelled like skunk all day long yesterday and the yard and coop still smell like skunk today!
I love my life!
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