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IT'S RAINING CATS AND DOGS...as though we don't have enough animals around here already! In fact, one truly delightful thing about the precipitation and its forceful arrival is that now the Yard Man will not have to be coerced into cleaning up the small but definitely unwelcome deposit that Ms. Chicken-Who-Walks-About left on the kitchen porch yesterday.







This female has quite a mind of her own, flying the coop whenever she pleases--acting for all the world as though SHE were the mistress of this property! I can't tell you, Dear Reader, how often she has enraged the true and actual mistress with her careless deposits and her mulch-strewing ways!





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