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It Has Been a Wet and Rainy Run-Up to Christmas

Robin McConaughy

Robin McConaughy

Rain, mud, standing water and more mud. The animals don't like it, the farmers can't move in it and it just plain is a nuisance. The conventional wisdom states that it's always “easier to put water on, than to take it off.”

So…finally some sunshine and a good, strong breeze to dry up the moisture.  The chickens approve.

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And this handsome fellow can finally shake a tail feather.

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Some of the girls even hopped the fence to see what the woods have in terms of foraged edibles.

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But maybe happiest of all is little Vera, waiting patiently for a scratch at the fence.

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