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Rain barrel downspout diverters arrived. yay!! I've now poked around with the pieces, instructions in hand, long enough to understand how it works....oooh....cool.

I'm tempted to go install them right now...but...but...I have to find my safety goggles first. Somehow cheating on the safety part while the kids can see seems...not good.

But when I do install them, I'll probably go ahead and install all of them, and then add rain barrels later, unless the niggling something in the back of my brain tells me why it thinks that is a bad idea.

In other news, I let the wyndottes out with the big girls yesterday, and Top Chicken promptly chased them back into their pen and intimidated them into staying there...even after she left that section of the yard. :P I let them back out this morning, and Buffy was flipping out, so I warned her that was a bad idea, but if it meant that much to her she could come out for a while now that she had eaten her breakfast. She came running out...

...the Wyndotte horde proceeded to chase her.

Until Top Chicken noticed that someone was getting harassed in HER yard and she wasn't leading it.....

...so she chased the Wyndottes for a while until they settled down.

Ah, pecking order.

Since all that was going on, I went ahead and caught Spot and put her in a cage with some water and food. She'll either get picked up today by the woman who wanted her as a pet, or picked up tomorrow by LT to feed to her family. Either way, within 48 hours she won't be my problem, and right now removing her means all the pecking order rearranging can happen in one go.

Lots of chicken talk in my yard today. I think I'm glad we don't speak chicken, I bet those girls swear like sailors in a foreign port. ;)

ETA: and Spot has now been picked up. Apparently saying "no really, I have backup stewpot plans now" finally got Murphy to help the woman who was going to take her find time in her schedule. Bye, Spot! Have a good life as a pet. :)