Friday Suprise

E2 was helping me with chores on Friday. I sent him out to feed the patriarch of our herd, Golly. Golly's first doe born here has been quite the milker this year. Ginger is giving over 8# a day, so we are quite pleased with 'Gollinator the Pollinator.' So back to the story. E2 took Golly's food out to him, but before he could get all the way out to Golly's house, or 'The Love Shack' as we call it sometimes, he came charging back into the barn and said, 'Mom! There are chicks - baby chickens - out under Golly's house!' Sure enough, one of our Silver Spangled Hamburg hens had sneaked off and hatched a brood under Golly's house. With the threats posed by the roosters, the other hens, the one-eyed cat that has been hanging around, the skunk we have been smelling at night, raccoons and other things we are blissfully ignorant of, we adopted them to the mud room. There are a nice dozen chicks, and we are hoping that they are hens. Time will tell . . .

The stormy weather seems to have settled down. The clouds were pretty neat last night, though.