The Joy of Farm Life

back where he came from (the cattle sheds across the road, where he lived alone for seven years until he adopted us).Expecting him to stop there was borderiing on ridiculous but we tried it for a laugh. The next thing we did was give him to a nieghbour to keep in his pen, this man had owned the roosters mother also, so he was keen to take him. He lives up the road and around the corner, plus the mile or so from his gate to his house. Imagine then, my disbelief when the next morning this little rooster was sitting on my fencepost crowing his head off? Later that afternoon, the nieghbour came back and after some great stunts while attempting to catch him again, they took him back to his new home. The guy put him in a pen with a roof so he couldn't fly out this time - problem solved. The next morning the nieghbour called me and it seemed the foxes had gotten our eccentric rooster as he could see the burrow they dug into his pen. He felt a little badly since it had survived on it's own for a long time. He was feeling better though, when I glanced out the window and informed him that the burrow must have been dug by the rooster, because he was once again on my fence crowing. No one knows how on earth this little guy did what he did - but needless to say he lives here permanently now and the other rooster has learned to stick up for himself.

I have lost gardens, burnt bread and forgotten my not-yet-ready yogurt sitting in the flask only to find it a week later - not a good look. I have burned myself plenty on the solar heated water on a summer day (it was a great temperature if you wanted to boil pasta, not have a shower)and have stood shivering on a winter morning waiting for the darn thing to heat up. I have stood outside in freezing weather making myself a cup of tea on the gas barbeque in one of our many blackouts and have waded bottom-deep in water on our road in the floods.

This life of ours is full of adventure and excitement. When I start to get a little aggravated, I look at the funny side of all of this and realise it is

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