E-VAC-uation!

In my friend’s house, there lived a little mouse.  (I house-sit for a friend who owns a beautiful little home called Bergen).  The little critter could never be caught, so he continued to torment me by using the kitchen cupboard (under the sink) as his personal urinal – amongst other things!  I had tried setting mouse traps for him, but it appears he had accomplices in the form of huge Sugar ants that would happily remove the cheese or other bait in little segments without setting off the trap.  Sneaky little fellow!

‘Relocated’ probably looks like this!

One day, I decided to give the ‘mouse cupboard’ it’s routine clean.  I was gaily sucking up all the unwanted rodent excrement when the vacuum cleaner started making that sound it makes when paper or something gets stuck in the pipe.  As I peered into the cupboard I had a little chuckle seeing that little brat stuck in the end of my vacuum cleaner’s pipe.  He was caught quite high up on the neck.  An adrenaline rush surged through me (and no doubt the mouse too!) as I thought it might suck him up completely or perhaps cause his eyeballs to pop from his head!  Oh boy!  I couldn’t let him get away, so I left him attached to the vacuum cleaner as I ran to fetch an old jar.  I popped the pipe (mouse still attached) into the jar, got the lid ready and then turned off the vacuum cleaner.  I thought he might die of a heart attack if anything, but as critters go, he survived!  So, should you be looking for this mouse, you will find him relocated on the old Knysna road, probably living it up in some poor sucker’s house! 🙂

Great Excitement!

They’re cute, they’re fluffy and they are two days old!
…that was seven weeks ago!

Pom Poms!

It was a wonderful, excitement-filled day at Grace Like Rain when  200 new chicks arrived!
They are Lohman chickens, originally from Germany, but these little hens have come all the way from the Western Cape.

They bring with them the hope of ushering in a new era of productivity, fresh blood and blessing for Grace Like Rain.  What makes them special is that we know they are ALL hens from day one and they have been innoculated which makes them stronger.  They just need an issue of machine guns and goggles to ward off any predators! 😉

Beady Little Eyes

Even at five weeks old, when all 200 chicks look at you all at once (from their enclosure), it looks like millions of beady little granadilla pips staring back at you! …very cute…and sometimes creepy!

The chicks had their very own personal bodyguard while up at the farmer’s house. Glocky is his name and as we all know, it’s always a good thing to have ‘watchmen on the walls’!

Watchman At The Gate

Glocky is SO facinated with chickens.  He cannot help himself, he gets so excited that his entire body trembles.  He doesn’t hear a word spoken to him in this ‘trance state’ unless it is shouted at him!

Rudy and Elise Glock (the farmers) have been adapting the Piranha sleeping hut to enable the ‘little chicks’ to join the adult chickens… which they did today!

“Hello Gorgeous!”

The rooster who used to reside in this container with his hens is quite intrigued with the new chicks. Perhaps he knows already that they are all hens! 😉

I think we should call the new team ‘The Golden Girls’ (or Chicks)

…but let’s hear from the readers …what do you suggest?