Just a very good video about Morel Mushroom hunting

We've started hunting recently and we have found some this fall (Chicken of the Woods). The last couple years though we have been looking for Morel Mushrooms with no luck. I think this video is going to be helpful especially with hints on when to start looking for them and around the trees to look for.

I yelled at and chased after a fox last night...

Gryphon came running out of his room. "Something is after the chickens!".
Sarah and I bounded out of the room. I armed myself with a broom that Gryphon had picked up and dashed out into the back yard. It was dark. I saw one of the Buffs (big flufffy yellow chickens) go further back in the yard and saw the other one and something else head to the front yard. I took off after them. As I rounded the corner to the front yard, I saw the something else pulling on the chicken. Then the yelling started.
"Hey! Blah! - it heard me and I could see the chicken break free and the other thing, a small fox or a brave cat, run toward the other side of the house.
I took off after it. I then surprised it as it had stopped around the side of the house.
With my broom in hand, they yelling and chasing started. "Hey, FOX!" I guess I decided it was a fox. "I'm coming after you!" I shouted as I chases out of the yard at full speed. He turned the corner down a path out of our yard. I hope I at least scared him enough not to come back to soon.
I got the other buff back to the coop and we had to search around a bit for the one that was attacked. I did find her and Sarah administered first aide to the bite marks. And we put her back in the coop for the night.
The photo here is from this morning and she seems to be ok.

I'm trying to imagine the Green Grass of summer around the coop...

...I hope the chickens are doing the same in their own chicken-y way.

Chicken in the house...

Chris Faulkner
sent from my G1...

Chicken in the snow...

Chris Faulkner
sent from my G1...

"How Does A Duck Know?" by CRASH TEST DUMMIES

"How Does A Duck Know?"

How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?
You can cut a chicken's head offand it will keep on running and twitching

[CHORUS]When everything seems planned outwhen everything seems nicely planned outwell the human race will come and smack your face

How come all my body parts so nicely fit together?
All my organs doing their jobs, no help from me!A person pulls a spider's leg out
To watch it keep on moving and twitching.

Satan lives here: on grain and earth, rain and air.

How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in and iron lungand I will keep on breathing and twitching.