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The coop is looking pretty nice.  The girls (chicken variety) and I are gearing up for a week or so of elementary school visits.  I sent a cute little flier to the teachers at a nearby school advertising our willingness to host students.  I figured that what with being walking distance from school, we were the perfect end-of-the-year field trip.  And chickens are a perfect study in social groups, sustainability, and compost, not to mention how pretty and funny they are.  I can think of  a million art and writing activities for chickens, (FOR kids, I mean, WITH chickens).  So far we have two classes slated to make the visit.  I only wish that it wasn’t so wet and dreary out.  Nothing like a rainy day to bring the gross elements out in a chicken run… I am talking about wet poop sitting in the mud of course.  Oh well.  I will just throw some straw around and hope that covers it a bit.

I didn’t do many art projects this week, but I did finish the board of glory— a ceramic chicken for each hen (and the one rooster) who has passed through our yard.  How many are up there?  11!  All of them have their names stamped on the side and an attempt at depicting their size and coloring.  This is a quickie project, so the results were sort of a mixed bag.  Some glazes were right on and others left something to be desired.  The important thing for me at this point is that I have caught up.  Now if no one dies or we don’t add any new hens, I can relax for awhile.

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