With just a couple days to go, everyone is soooooo busy, and Carol and I are also having challenges with our individual “mangers”. A sense of humor is the best way to deal with house breaking Lulu, as sent by a granddaughter……
Always a dog underfoot as you work in the Holiday Kitchen, 
sometimes even putting a paw on your foot, lest you forget his presence…….and you could drop whatever you are preparing on the counter, pleeeeaaase!
Everyone knows I keep free-range chickens, and enjoy the ever-entertaining things they do. 
At my manger, there is an injured rooster, as Carol so apply describes:
” Earlier, just before dawn this light snow had made a fairyland of bush and tree and I remembered its beauty.
But you have heard of the bird of dawning, I’m sure. It seems Julie’s bird, a rooster, has a foot problem that had him limping and not putting weight on the one leg. When Julie saw this she tried to get closer to examine him, but of course could not catch the wily bird. So, in the dark of night she crept out to the coop to snatch him off the rafter as he slept.
She took him into the bathroom to examine him, where he stood stunned and blinking in the light. She decided the best thing to do was to keep him inside for the night until she could get something for him the next day. She bedded him down in a cage there and went to bed.
Guess what happened at 5 a.m. the next morning?! Yes, the bird of dawning did his thing, his crow reverberating through the house made Julie’s husband leap from the bed! “ WHAT WAS THAT?
Do you suppose he didn’t know there was a rooster in the house? I bet that bird sleeps outside tonite.
Christmas is only a few days away and here are a few lines to remind us. ”
BIRD OF DAWNING
Some say that ever ‘gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
w. shakespeare
P.S. There are two lab puppies left with papers that one of the other realtors’ daughter brought in yesterday. I did the lay-them-on-their-backs to see if they are hyper or not, as prescribed by Pete, and they passed! Let me know if anyone is interested in taking one home!
Family is starting to gather now, until tomorrow……….Julie
