Mental Farmer

Remember this guy?  He was in the coop with an egg in his gullet when we got back from our trip to the Outer Banks.  He came back; again he was coiled around the nest boxes in our coop, egg in gullet.  This time, John found him.  John carefully lifted him with those plastic, long-handled […]

I wish I had my camera in hand the other day.  Snapdragon disappeared into the brush and returned with a black snake in her beak.  The snake was about 6 or 8 inches long and thrashing.  Sweet Pea spotted it, ran up to Snap and grabbed the snake out of her beak.  Sweet Pea took […]

Today we came home from a delightful week at the beach, where we spent time with friends from Chicago and Germany. When we arrived home, the girly-birds were nowhere to be found. I opened the chicken coop to find a four foot long black snake with an egg in its gullet! John managed to snap […]