Kristani phoned and asked to have Lelie back, and as the understanding was that she stays with me until such time as she could go to Kristani, I had no leg to stand on, but I was very sad. So she and Vissie, her fiance arrived, and I could see that Lelie was absolutely over the moon on seeing Kristani, and although we lived together so nicely, I knew she had missed Kristani.
I missed her playing with the frogs in the middle of the night, and her mad running around when she realized that we were going down to the river for her daily swim, or her silly believe that the small cock was her friend, while he was a vicious little bird who chased her away from her food whenever he got the chance.
It was strange to sit outside in the early morning quietness, and there was no small white body sniffing around in the shrubs and grass, maybe smelling the moles, as she would sometimes start scratching and whining excitedly, but she had never as yet managed to dislodge one single mole!
I smiled thinking back on the day she went for some playtime into Kevin Bacon's sty, and almost got eaten by that gluttonous monster, and came back stinking like a sewerage, covered in the stinky black sludge in which Kevin loved to roll!
I had given up on my newest patch, as the moles were just too much to cope with, and in any case, all my seedlings had died off. I decided to just concentrate on the other patches, as the little monsters had not yet worked their way in underneath my shading nets that I had lain before putting the soil back into the escavated pieces.
Jan's two cocks were just the biggest clowns, or maybe they were two imbeciles, as they would kind of work their way slowly up to my gate, and after cocking their silly heads from side to side to see if self or Lelie was close by, they would quickly run passed my door, straight to my veggie patches, as there were lots of earthworms for them to unearth.They were not really scared of Lelie I think, as she obviously thought that they came on a play date, and would run around barking playfully, trying to draw the dumb things into playing with her. The two naughty birds would just ignore her, just now and then storming at the playful dog, at which Lelie would bark hysterically, thinking it a great game!
On seeing me however, this two errant chickens would both give a few very lady like gurglings, before setting off at great speed to try and get through the gate before I could catch them. If only they didn't reek such havock in my veggie patches I would have left them, but oh boy, this Kuk-kuks had bally feet like ostriches, and if they started scratching for worms, no plant remained standing.Jan was now quite good at slaugtering the chickens, as he had found a very humane way on the internet, the different ways gotten from friends and family not having worked, and after running after chickens with half wrung necks, and bleeding combs after he chopped that off instead of the head had made him quite wary of being a farmer!