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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:50 pm Post subject: A Henpecked Home for the Holidays

Mog the Dog here, hanging out for a bit in my henpecked home on this fine Thanksgiving Day.

A couple of weeks ago, we rolled the behemoth pumpkins into the chicken yard after the Halloween festivities came to an official close, and lo and behold, our little hen buddies started pecking away at them until they had built me a fine little home:

Yes, these are the pumpkins that were borne out of that amazing vine that was featured in several of my posts this past summer. Never in a million billion years could mother vine have known that she would produce the building materials for such a fine home. I should be wise to save some seeds for next season before the hens make a fine Thanksgiving feast out of them all.

Life is abundant in this neck-o-the-Land-o-Plenty woods today.

MTD

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:19 pm Post subject:

Once we had the Geodesic Dome! Now we have the Pumpkin House! For those ecologically minded folks of the future.

Mog, you're so "cutting edge"!

But isn't it a bit goopy in there?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject:

Love this!!!!! Absolutely LOVE!

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject:

I adore chickens! The ranch where I work/ride/keep my horse has a flock of 26 chickens including a very special rescue. Eunice was found on the side of the road at 11pm on Halloween night. She was skinny, cold, and missing half her feathers. The people who found her brought her out to the ranch and she now lives in a dog crate in the dining room until the weather is warm enough and she is strong enough to go out and meet the other hens. Smile

She is so much better after being fed and kept indoors since she arrived. We gave her some eggs to sit on and she is extremely happy-

She gained enough strength to lay an egg a couple of weeks ago...a very special egg indeed-

The ranch chickens got to eat an entire watermelon last weekend! All that was left were two perfect bowls of rind. I bet they would go crazy for a pumpkin!

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:58 am Post subject:

Aurelia - You've just brought to life one of my favorite human companion's favorite Ray Bradbury short stories in which Ray's family encounters a strange chicken among a flock of ten thousand at a motel/chicken ranch while traveling across country during the Depression in 1932. Just days prior to their arrival, the hen had laid two eggs, one with raised calcium formations in the shape of a skull and horns of a longhorn steer and the other with a most inspiring message on it. The landlady who showed them the eggs was able to locate and point out the hen that had laid them among the massive flock of solid white birds, and the entire family knew which one she was pointing to.

Your Eunice is a rare bird among ten thousand, indeed! Please thank her, the next time you see her, for inspiring me!

By the way, you have given me another reminder of one of the things we lost when we sold our souls to the commercial food industry in our collective and egoic quest for easier lives. All of those rare factory farm eggs with inspiring messages on them have been properly culled by workers (who never bothered to look at the messages) so that we consumers never get the chance to see them and be inspired. It's a loss of such innumerable magnitude that no one can put a human price on it.

And what should we make of old mother pumpkin vine? Without sentience, she could not have known that her life's work would yield the building materials for an inspired chicken motel built by a flock of inspired chickens so that a 45-year-old toy brindle dog could inspire his favorite human companion to stop and take notice of it all...

No, not in a million billion years could mother vine have ever imagined the magnitude of her own life's work. For, you see, it is not her work to imagine.

It's ours...

MTD

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