Tag Archives: Amelia

Chicken Drama: a Broody, Wind Eggs, and Baby Chicks on the Way!

Posted on June 11, 2011 by polloplayer

Bear with me and re-wind just one more time to early May. We were in NYC, and  just about to leave our apartment for a long-awaited lunch at Balthazar when the phone call came: “Hope’s not moving”. Our hearts sunk, … Continue reading →

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Amelia; June 2009 – September 2010

Posted on September 26, 2010 by polloplayer

We lost Amelia early this morning. Thanks to Victoria and Alexandra for making her last few weeks as comfortable as possible; thanks to everyone who threw a treat Amelia’s way during her brief (but very happy!) life.

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Ups, Downs

Posted on September 25, 2010 by polloplayer

It’s been a good week. It’s been a bad week. Like any other week, I guess, but the lows did seem a bit lower than the highs did high. First off, our patient is resting comfortably and more or less … Continue reading →

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The yolk’s on us.

Posted on March 22, 2010 by polloplayer

Some news is just too big to wait for the weekend: Amelia laid an egg-stravagance! I had a suspicion that it might be what chicken folk call a double-yolker, and I was right:

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They work hard for their living…

Posted on December 18, 2009 by polloplayer

Thanks to me, you’ll now be channeling that old Donna Summer song all day. “She works hard for the money, so hard for it honey, she works hard for the money, do you better treat her right” The girls have … Continue reading →

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Egg on my face.

Posted on December 6, 2009 by polloplayer

I know you’re all waiting with bated breath for the update: yesterday I told you that Lily was sitting in the nesting spot Hope created, but I was wrong! A case of mistaken identity: it wasn’t Lily – it was … Continue reading →

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Hither and thither.

Posted on September 11, 2009 by polloplayer

Home from NYC, briefly. Leaving again tomorrow for LA, where daughter, Angela, is participating in her first triathlon. Have had nary a moment with the chickens, although when the CE and I greeted them yesterday morning after being away for … Continue reading →

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In Purgatory.

Posted on August 27, 2009 by polloplayer

I cannot seem to get through Dante’s Purgatorio. Seven more Cantos loom, not to mention the queue of books I had planned to read by end of summer. Time does not simply fly, it whooshes past. What’s the hurry, I wonder? … Continue reading →

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Everything is under control.

Posted on August 15, 2009 by polloplayer

No, the weather has not improved, but Dizzy positioned himself at the Chunnel this morning, presumably to check passports, so we know that despite whatever other chaos reigns today, Chickenland will be in good hands. Or, rather, paws. I read … Continue reading →

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Brrrr-r-r-r-r!!!

Posted on August 14, 2009 by polloplayer

I probably need to invest in one of those plastic squeegee things people back East use to scrape off their windshields in winter. I’ll need it to remove the ice from my computer screen, as, in addition to fog and … Continue reading →

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