They took the skin off my baby chicken & left.

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Adventure American Fiction

Once upon a time a small family of three moved into a country home on a 2021 Covid spring. There was wild chipmunks, rabbits, turkeys, birds, a deer & a ground hog. The father, started an early garden, & soon realized that the animals kept eating nearly everything he planted. The father thought to himself, then planted more with extra seed for the loss curve.


He then cleared, chopped & burned down the fuel foliage dead & alive, because previous residents neglected to remove brush, & it stock piled for years giving the animals plenty of places to hide, & make homes. Now that a large garden was put in, the food source was was inviting, for many creatures to move in. By the father removing all the excessive brush for them to make homes in the just found other nearby, or just migrated through.

The father had another hobby, archery. He built old school primitive bows, composites, rams horn, bamboo, local & exotic woods. As the father worked outside, or watched through the window, he kept a bow & arrows nearby, & would fire warning shots at the animals that came by to eat & dig up the garden.

This worked well for the larger animals. A couple shots at the ground hog & removal of his cover, forced the ground hog to leave. The rabbits left also, only to soon be hit by cars & killed & eaten by alley cats. The deer seemed angry because the father also picked all the wild black berries with his son, that the deer would stop by & eat. So he left. The warning shots worked well on the turkeys they never have been seen since.


Alvin & the Chipmunks, they stuck around. The birds was not a problem, so they continued to do what birds do. The fathers garden began to grow, but soon the father realized the earth was hard, & the bugs accumulated In masses. The geology, was mostly clay with local farmers growing, engineered soybeans or corn. The earth had the obvious problems, to wet when wet, & to dry when dry & never enough oxygen for plants to breathe. So in the heat of the summer the garden withered.


Between the seeds, & holes that the chipmunks ate & dugout, the multiple bugs, dry or wet earth, to much shade, the garden needed help! Transplanting began, poisoning, porous additives, drainage dug, irrigation installed, the budget curve,????!!!!! Let’s say say the wife was not happy! Time & money! How it was spent because she worked full time & the father raised & homeschooled the son. The father didn’t realize the commitment of a starting a simple garden. All the trouble it had & was causing, although; the drainage installed had also helped renovation on the house, by the basement never flooding again, which was a regular & seasonal event. The water & well pump is another story altogether.


The flowers started blooming, the garden became green, the bugs still a problem but the chipmunks collected & moved on, returning from time to time to collect seasonal seeds that fall. Mother, began to smile again at the beauty. As niches, opened & closed a strange brew moved in. The father also recycled, & composting, & food scraps used in fertilization.


The scraps attacked, raccoons & stray cats. The raccoon, bandits of damage. More like foreign terrorist! Trash, rubbish, recycling, & composting products all needed a new plan. The stray cats, more like a mob of mobsters full & part time. Most of the cats was homeless, some had nice expensive homes, while others with nice characteristics got hand outs & even warm places to sleep. A mob of mobsters they where.


The Black panther, from California, The Gray, born near a farm close by, The Calicoes, from Florida, The Siamese, from China, & a Russian fluff & tuff. Together they was a force to be reckoned with.?



The cats, a mobster mess, mixed from all corners of the world. All summer they began to congregate by for last nights filipina left over. Cats love fish bones. Gradually over the corse of the summer & long winter they all became regulars in the backyard of the country father.

The next spring the father had a head start on the garden but the chipmunks found there way into the basement & dug up & hauled away all the fruit seeds. Soon the chipmunks went away because of the cats always on the hunt. The father bought baby chickens this year, 24 of them as a matter of fact.

Did I ever tell you the story of how a chicken full of shit lived while most others was MurderEd?

He built day time tracker cages out of two old full size box springs beds, put them on little wheels & moved the chickens around the back field & yard. Al was going good, but at least one of the cats was always watching, & coming really close at night. The father got his bow & fired very close warning shots at the cats. He thought that worked. That night he separated the chics, large & smalls. He ran out of cages so he left 8 of the smalls in a tracker cage.

That night was a Charles Mansion Massacre. Black panther paw prints, 5 birds missing, the smallest hide in a small dip in the grass, A small Leg horn lay there breathing heavy & one dead brown rock chic.

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June 01, 2021 12:21

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