Sunday, November 14, 2004

Ode to an X-chook

Julienne wasn't with us for long, but in the brief time we knew her we learned the true meaning of 'playing chicken'.
Unfortunately, Julienne lost.
Julienne lived for the challenge - to fly higher, run faster and evade the dog for longer.
We enjoyed our brief time with her when, while recuperating from one of her most recent escapades, she was a guest in our home (in a cardboard box in the bathroom) and chief earwig-catcher and onion-eater in our little house garden.
Sadly, she has crossed her last road after escaping her chookyard home and hiding from The Dog in a bundle of bird netting - literally stringing herself up.

She is sadly missed - mostly by The Girl. The Boy is too busy helping his Dad dig another damn chook grave.

The moral of this story - don't ever let your five-year-old daughter name your livestock.
Or if you do, swap the blue identifier ring onto another bird BEFORE she finds the little chooky corpse in the backyard.


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