A Morning on the Farm

We have five visiting chickens that we're boarding for a couple friends of ours down the street. They came from Fifth Crow Farm in Pescadero. There's an Americauna, a Black Australorp, a Delaware, a Rhode Island Red, and a Leghorn. That gives us ten chickens at the moment. The Leghorn, which always reminds me of the Warner Bros. character (I say, I say son...), had only laid a couple eggs since she arrived and started to wonder what was going on. She is also a regular escapee so when I saw her out again this morning, I knew she had to be laying somewhere else. Sure enough, under our little deck landing I found five white eggs; her out little stash.

In addition to hosting chickens, we also have some quasi-adopted cats. Our friends Brooke and Ian moved in a couple doors down and they have two black cats, Sacco and Vanzetti, aka CC and VZ. They've decided they really like our place and feel free to come and go as they please, in and out of the house.CC is a bit of a hunter and we found some feathers on the bath mat yesterday, evidence of his latest kill. And then this morning I found him with a live bird in his mouth. I tried to get him to let go of it but I couldn't grab him. Oh, well, we have plenty of those little birds around and maybe it'll keep them from eating so much of the chicken feed.