Chicken Fun

Last week was a very busy week for us at Shaffett Emporium. John, Hannah and Libby were out of town at the beginning of the week.  Libby went to have a vacation from her brothers at Grammy's house while Hannah and John went to New Student Orientation at Springhill College. That left the boys and me holding down the fort.

While John was gone I decided to deep clean our bedroom and paint the walls. The boys and I proceeded to scrub down everything in the room including the walls. Once that was done I painted the room a light brown. I had to laugh because my brother called at one point and got to talk to Nathan. All he wanted to know was when I thought John and the girls would arrive. Nathan informed him I was painting because I wanted to see if his dad would notice. Since we have a rather large room this took me two days to paint and then on the third day we moved everything back in place. (John came home on Tuesday night and I finally pointed out that I'd painted the room Saturday, for those who are wondering.)

Since we spent most of the time working I felt bad for the boys. On Tuesday, Noah asked if we could bring the dogs in and let the chickens out back. I thought about it and decided it might be fun. So against Nathan's better judgement we put the dogs in the house and then carried the chickens to the backyard.

We noticed that the chickens stayed together in the yard, so we tried separating them. It didn't matter how far we moved them apart they came back together. The real fun came when it was time to get them all back in their coop. Here are some pictures of the boys trying to "herd" chickens.

We laughed and laughed. It was surprisingly great fun. It's amazing how fast those birds can move. Luckily for us Noah only have four chickens, otherwise we may have been out there all night. We have since let them out one more time. Once again we had a time catching them to take them back to their coop. One was even smart enough to hide under a big bush that Noah and John could not reach into to get it out. It was a lot fun and also great exercise.