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Stoaty came back several times that afternoon. I ended up sitting out with an air rifle waiting for him.

I do have one strong enough to take out a stoat. It’s probably strong enough to take out a fox, but I’d feel awful if it didn’t quite.

All I know is that today I have been consuming an inordinate amount of chocolate.

No, you dint! I’m sticking with the armored chicken through the portal ending.

That was her introduction into dealing with the perils of Chickenworld. Later she would look back on that incident and recall how her resolution had seen her through. Well, resolution, and a screaming human showing up to rescue her.
In fact, that’s where ALL the missing chickens went.

So, Woozles. Good thing you don’t have Heffalumps too!

Now if you’ll ‘scuse me please, I have a chicken who didn’t make it to Chickenworld to cook up in the air fryer, oh, and I ‘retired’ today, so, another happy ending.

Congratulations, DurnedYankee!
And–sorry about the chooks, Sweas. 🙁

Meanwhile in other stories – it will be interesting to see if your, so called, Covidiots can wrest control of the country back from the Connivers who think they can keep you locked down for many more months because of a flu.

I am kind of amazed that you haven’t built ChickenBunker. I would. Fencing is cheap, so are cinderblocks and concrete. Razor wire, merlons and crennels, drawbridges, and stoat sized Claymore mines run the costs up though. No fox, hawk, stoat or even mouse would be able to get in to my chooks if I had any. Redwalll!!!

Durned – two full months after OrangeManBad said the C-word, 3 months after Dr. Zelenko and the frogs started publishing results, 4 months after the ChiComs mentioned it on New Year’s Eve, the Brits are going to try chloroquine on thousands of their own NHS staff to see if it works as a prophylactic. No mention of zinc or vitamin D, but their press is calling HCQ “the Trump drug”. These, the people who invented the G&T to prevent malaria.

I can’t believe every damn nurse, doctor, and hospital orderly the world over hasn’t been living on these pills for 2 months already and just keeping mum. Doesn’t the hypocritic oath say “first do no harm, but save your own self before that”?

Congratz, Durned.

We went to Aldi yesterday. Trust me, the lockdown is over. The government may not know it yet, but it’s done.

I’m already bored. NOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTT.
and, according to advice which seems generally public but almost unknown – as soon as you retire, you’re supposed to start drinking.
4 different people suggested it of the 6 or so real people I told.
That day!
Right after you give them notice even.
At 10:00 in the morning!

@Durned: Congrats! Somehow I don’t see you as ever being bored. Yeah, judging by the Geezer shopping day baskets; Value-Rite vodka in gallon jugs seems right popular hereabouts. The ratio appears to be 1 gal booze and 2 gal orange juice.

BTW In chickenworld they are all wearing armour liners made from missing socks.

@Drew More counties and folks are going rogue in CA after Gov Nitwit proclaimed Sept 8th for restart maybe. ‘Up his’ appears to be the general census.

The only sliver of good news in this entire pandemic is that Americans have had a taste of socialism and find it not to their liking.

BJM – the socks! At last an explanation!

You do know that means armored trans-dimensional Chickens are occasionally popping into our houses and gathering socks.

(Chickensquad #32 returns through portal to Chickenworld)

“These socks match (cluck, cluck)”
“I know Chickencommander, should they not? (bwaaaak bwaaaak)”
“NO! (squawk!) You idiot! (squawk!) Were you asleep during your basic training? Never take a matching pair! (bwaaaaaaak bwaaaaak cluck)
NOW we have to take that one back! (squawk squawk peck peck peck peck)
“Owww! (bwaaaak bwaaaakk bwaaaak)”

Oh durnedyankee, how did I miss this earlier?! Oh yeah…I’m still working a couple of days a week! Well…BIG congrats! And I’m only 74 days behind you!!

@Durned Akshuly, dryers have built-in trans-dimensional conduits, also known as vent pipes, to the Chickenworld Armory Supply Depot. Pop your tidy whities and socks into the dryer and listen to the sound the drum makes;nowsthetime-nowsthetime-nowsthetime-nowsthetime-nowsthetime-nowsthetime…

How this came to be is a whole ‘nother story.

I found a rat snake in my coop nest boxes today, and thought of your stoat. If you are bored, you can watch it try and eat an egg way too big. Spoiler, it didn’t succeed, but it made a damn good try. https://youtu.be/-YSIXGamh6M