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Morning songs

On a recent early and glorious Saturday morning – it was 4°C outside –

I let the complaining chickens out. Chickens never stop complaining. They squawk and grizzle like rusted hinges on an old farm gate.

I lead them, squawking and grizzling, to their breakfast plate. They are terribly greedy, so they follow at a sprint.

There is no more comedic a sight than a sprinting chicken.

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