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<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#ff0000">Hi folks,</font><br>
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<font color="#3333ff">Boy, I'm ready for a long weekend, aren't you?
Of course, I'm always ready for that, but I'm hoping I'll be in the
mood and have time to get some more stuff done around the house. We
had a project going last night, working on closing up gaps in our
henhouse. Night before last something got in there and killed one of
our nice big hens and a young chicken and got back out without us
seeing it or knowing what it was. I suspect a 'possum, but of course
can't prove anything as the other chickens aren't talking, and the mama
hen and her other babies refused to roost back in there last night,
preferring to roost on the swing set. I even had to help a couple of
them up there to her, as they just got up so far and sat there
cheeping, which is like saying "Free Lunch" to any passing nocturnal
predator. The only place we could figure out that the critter must've
gotten in at was right under the eaves where there was a gap between
the roof and the wall, so my husband got a chair and cut some hardware
cloth to nail up there. I held the flashlight and handed him 4 nails
at a time, since it worked out that about 3 of them would either fly
off when he hit (at) them or he would drop them, so that left one to
actually get nailed into place. I'll probably be able to refill the
nailbag by going out there today and picking up all the dropped ones
from last night.<br>
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</font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="+2"><font color="#ff0000">Our
menu for today includes:<br>
Beef stroganoff<br>
Mashed potatoes and brown gravy<br>
Green beans<br>
Fried squash<br>
Broccoli cuts<br>
Baked potato bar<br>
Hot rolls<br>
Burritos with chili<br>
Chicken spaghetti<br>
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<font color="#3333ff">And for dessert try some Mandarin Orange Cake.</font></font><font
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Have a great 4th of July weekend, but <u>be safe</u> not sorry,<br>
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Rhoda <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
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