Remember the Great Christmas Chicken Massacre of ‘05? Probably not. I didn’t write most of that gruesome event up for y’all, ‘cos it was Nas-Tay. Seriously. Coming home from vacation to chunks of your pets all over your yard is not only not fun, but not so much fun to write up and post for all the world to read about. But that’s what happened, almost exactly two months ago.

When we left for xmas vacation we had five chickens. When we got home a week later we thought we had none, and got to spend a couple of hours in the dark and the rain picking up chunks of chicken from all over the yard and the deck. The next morning we discovered that we had one lone survivor. We got her a friend early in January because she seemed lonely (and that friend, although more than a year old at this point, may well turn out to be a rooster… if you’re up on your Polish chicken knowledge, PLEASE drop me a line). Life went on.

Moments ago, I was looking out the window into the back yard being amused that the crocuses and the daffodils seem to think it’s spring, and I realized that the chicken I was watching wasn’t Sunshine. Not unless Sunshine had suddenly gotten much paler, shorter, bearded, and had grown some seriously furry feet. Now, mind you, it’s the middle of winter, and our chickens seem to feel the need to molt right about now, so… maybe it was Sunshine. Critterboy said I was obviously smokin’ crack, but when he came and looked, all he could say was “that’s TOTALLY a survivor!”.

We live in the city (kinda), and our neighborhood is totally infested with hats. I mean raccoons.
Hence the chicken massacre to begin with. So where this chicken has been hiding for two months in the dead of winter, and what she’s been eating, and where she’s been getting her water, we have NO idea. But she’s back. And damn if that’s not a miracle.

And, in other miraculous news, Critterboy’s astounding green thumb strikes again:

This is an orchid that came to me as two leaves and nothing more about 4 years ago. This is the first time it’s bloomed (as far as I can remember). Go Critterboy!

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