Animal day

I could hear Daryl this morning as he was heading out the cellar door to feed Scarlet kind of mumble something. At first I thought it was about Scarlet because she’s so stubborn but when I saw what he really was talking about I thought what in the world? And where did it come from because Reno was locked up all night. After we thought about it for awhile, we think this is what happened…

With the weather being so cold, last night Daryl gathered up all the eggs that we’ve just left inside the chicken coop and put them in a 5 gallon pail by the house. These eggs were going to get thrown away and starting this weekend we were going to start keeping them again.  Now just maybe this Possum was checking out the eggs in the pail and Reno came over to put a stop to it. Makes sense right? What the confusing part of this whole thing though is when did all of this go down? Reno was still inside the barn this morning when we found it, so it had to be last night. But we for sure would have noticed walking by it last night when we came home right?

I think possums are very very unattractive!

So we think that after we got home and before she was locked up she must have killed it. Anyway, that’s the story we’re going with! I was a little nervous getting too close to this possum to take a picture. We’ve had it before when the dogs brought a possum up to the house and pretty proud of their kill, only to check on it later and it was gone. So when I was walking over to it, for an instant I could have sworn that it was still alive. But it wasn’t and Daryl took it somewhere and then it was really gone.

I was busy working on stuff in the house and Daryl spent the day doing something with the hammer mill. I never did ask just what he was doing, but looking at the yard I think he ground feed for the cows. The chickens have been really happy lately because they’ve been getting out and when they found crushed corn in the yard – well that’s just a bonus!! Now just to keep the dead possum’s friends and family  away from them.

And what is the picture of the day? Well it’s another farm animal, Little Kitty. We all know that he’ll miss Kyle when he’s gone, but I think he’s trying see if Kyle will pack him with all the rest of his stuff!

No you can’t go with Kyle