The chickens are being very sneaky because I have yet to see any of them on the ladder roosts. Maybe they hop off when they hear me come outside?
I think the weather is finally getting to me because I couldn't get warm this morning (even when I stood in front of the wood stove) until I went back to bed. Yep! I gave up trying to deal with the cold damp dreary morning and crawled back in bed to read and warm my bones. Kristine says it's so cold because the cloud cover is gone. I guess so and also because of all the rain and then the snow. I don't know if it is the temperature as much as the dampness.
Hopefully, the sun will be out tomorrow. I've got stuff I want to do.
But look at those poor chickens standing out in the cold pen waiting for me to let them out to search the snow for snowy thing to eat. Yeah, they make me feel like a wimp. But now I'm a warm wimp.
Kristine found this little critter in the hallway upsidedown and helpless. She looked him up in the Lone Pine bug book and it is from the Darkling Beetle family. A Stink Beetle! Yikes! I hadn't noticed one in the house before, but Kristine says she sees them outside. I wonder if the chickens eat stink beetles?
The book says the bug stands on its head and puffs out stinky stuff, but that some of them just stand on their heads and fake the puff. I saw a lot of photos of stink bugs on Google Images that don't look like this guy. I hope the rest of his friends stay outside!(March 5, 2009)
I'm very glad the migraines are staying away.
[4 eggs today]
The hens and Morgan were out today.
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