Plowing ahead, in spite of blog errors at every turn. I have an intrepidness. Probably just stupidity, really, as I have also been struggling with Vista for a year-and-a-half as well. I have received intelligence that there is another upgrade for MT, and I think I want to try that before I jump to WordPress.

Anyway, the contract agency interview went really well yesterday. I feel confident that they are going to handle me well and I bet I’ll be trapped behind a desk in no time flat. I don’t think that I’ve ever felt so comfortable at an interview.

This morning I spent some time out back, watching the chickens. My favorite time is when I open the door for the first time in the morning and they come bursting out, like out of some kind of chicken cannon and run around the yard flapping and stretching.

I open the house’s big door to put their water out on the lawn and check their food, and it always looks like some kind of horrible bar fight happened in there.The feeder is always still swaying slightly and there is litter and poop and food everywhere.

I watched them noodle around the yard and nip at a slightly overripe avocado that I’d split for them. Ms. Klassy the Polish came by and I noticed that she’s sprouted saddle feathers, making her a him. DAG. My favorite, most mellowist chicken, and now I have to rehome him.

I am still on the fence with the Silkies. One stayed small and clearly looked like a pullet, and the other grew much faster, but does not otherwise look like a rooster. Now they are close in size and their head crests look the same. Other than that, we certainly have an orpington, and Easter Egger, and two golden buttercups that are certainly girls.

I never can tell if they become your favorite chickens because they start sweet, or because you spend extra time with them and spoil them, making them tame and easy. I handled the Polish a lot because I heard they could be flighty, but now when I hold him he grabs my hand and lowers himself until his breastbone goes “whump” and lands on my arm, totally relaxed. I will get out there today and snap some pics. They are huge now.