[Eoscstudents] Menu for Mon. June 23
Rhoda Watkins
rwatkins at eosc.edu
Mon Jun 23 10:04:05 CDT 2008
Hi folks,
Wow, how did the weekend fly by so fast? It seemed like I was really
busy and got a lot done at the house, but had a lot more still to do and
had to come back to work instead. Oh well, it's not like housework will
disappear on its own, is it? It started out to be a wild night last
night, too. We had another mama hen and 9 baby chicks show up, so that
gave us 2 mama hens and 20 babies! We moved the first batch into a
bigger pen on the ground and put the new smaller ones who looked like
they had just hatched within the last couple of days into the smaller
pen that's up off the ground. About 10:30 I heard one of the hens
squawking for all she was worth and I grabbed the flashlight and ran
outside to see what was going on. Chickens may make a lot of noise in
the daytime, but they don't squawk at night for no reason, and sure
enough there was a raccoon that had actually gotten into the pen with
the batch of chickens on the ground and was running around dragging the
mother hen around by a mouthful of her feathers. He let her go when I
showed up and I raised the lid to the pen and he ran for it. I couldn't
believe he had gotten in there since the lid had a latch on it, but it
was off to one side and he managed to force the other side up enough to
squeeze his very determined and hungry self in for a try at a chicken
dinner. I put a bungee cord on the other side after that, made sure the
latch was fastened and went in the house thinking all would be fine.
Wrong. After about 10 minutes, I heard another squawk and went running
again, to see the rotten raccoon back with his paw stuck through the
chicken wire trying his luck that way. He did manage to kill one of the
babies that time, but didn't get to eat it, and again he had to run for
it. This time we put the little family in the henhouse with our other
big chickens, and things settled down for the night. I wonder if that
raccoon was trying to tell me I didn't have any cat food out, so he'd
have to try and snack on something else? Yes, I still like raccoons, I
just don't like them to eat my chickens!
Our menu for today includes:
Spaghetti with meatballs
Garlic bread
Navy beans
Corn bread
Steamed red potatoes
Broccoli with cheese sauce
Hot dogs
French fries
Baked beans
And for dessert have a summertime favorite, Ice Cream and Toppings.
Have a great day,
Rhoda :-)
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