08/05/2025
How’s yall morning? Mine has been an absolute delight (sarcasm at its finest). Went out to feed and water our plethora of animals and one of the white leghorn hens escapes the pen. Now these chickens literally run around juking side to side screaming, “the sky is falling” all while being chased by Molly (the pitbull with farmer Adrian trailing behind yelling at the dog to leave it!” Dog leaves it and I’m finally able to catch chicken little by cornering her up against the barn and cream crested Legbar chicken pen. I grab her and immediately get a sticker shoved under my thumb nail. Sunofabiscuit!!! I go to reposition her and discover about a dozen more stickers. Now, most people have never really held a flighty chicken, much less pulled stickers out of one. A few of them were embedded deep into her little thighs. My fingertips are on fire from the sticker venom, but she calmed down after I pulled out the 2nd sticker, as if she knew I was there to help. Thank you Jesus! Got her put up, only to discover that I had left the water running (no time to turn it off due to Molly trying to get to chicken little first) and Molly (inside dog) is rolling in the huge puddle of water. So I say a few choice words to Molly and finish watering the last bay of the barn. Molly is standing at the corner of the barn with her head low to the ground and eyes up in a wide stance because she knows what’s coming. So, I play it off like no big deal and begin washing my legs and crocs off sweet talking Molly. Then I sweet talk her real nice, which allows me to get just close enough to sn**ch that collar. I begin hosing her off because she ain’t fixin to come up in my house all wet and muddy. Wet is one thing, but muddy…Nah. She lays down, I say, fine by me, this makes it easier on me to wash yo dumb butt. That heifer stood up as fast as those words left my mouth! She shook so hard, my glasses done looked like I went through a car wash, my black shirt looked like I was trying to enter a G-Rated wet T-shirt contest, and I ended up scuffling with her and having to hose my legs and crocs off again! Needless to say, I’ve changed shirts 3 times this morning! And don’t mind the hair! It’sjust dripping wet onto my nose. 😩I still have to pick up my new glasses in town and make it up to the school to work in my classroom! It’s gotta be 5:00 somewhere! 🤣
