John and I usually have a quiet dinner on Saturday night at Struan Farm, after scrubbing up from a hard day outside. It gives us time to relax, reconnect after a busy week, and regroup on various projects.
From my vantage point there's also discussion and pre-positioning of my "wish list," including decisions on the sites for my soon-to-be extensive veggie garden as well as "Chateaux des Chooks" (in more common parlance, the chicken coop). Lately I've been reading that chicken coops have reached doghouse status in the U.S., i.e., they're getting more and more elaborate. The latest trend seems to be building an entire garden around one's hens. I've ordered a new book called Free Range Chicken Gardens to learn more.
While we'd given thought to putting the chooks around the new orchard, that's pretty close to the house and our main entrance. It's probably better to have them out of sight, where they could, indeed, have their own little contained area. I promptly christened this universe "Chookworld." Fits of laughter then followed as we decided the hens would be named "Fried," "Scrambled," "Poached," "Sunny Side Up," "Benedict," "Florentine," and possibly also "Soft Boiled" and "Hard Boiled" depending on total numbers.
It's the sort of thing that makes our Saturday nights special. And on Sunday morning we stopped by to see Anna, who coincidentally is looking after some chooks for our friend Marg.
John can't escape chooks, they're everywhere!
Love the chicken names
My grandsons have chickens called Shizzle, Frizzle, Crowbar...and Butter
Crowbar was a name my 5 old grandson came up with. No reasoning behind that. He just got to think up a name. So what's better than Crowbar??
Butter is definatly my daughters choice of name. Butter Chicken is her most favorite Indian food !!
Posted by: Nicky | 08/15/2012 at 12:09 PM