The Paint Inspector

Yesterday, an inspector came by to look over my paint job. Haley found me standing on a folding ladder in my backyard, cutting around the windows and door trim. She hopped onto the second support arm of the ladder and watched me work. Haley is, of course, one of the two Golden Comet pullets we purchased last spring.

Haley

Bennett

                                                         

Bennett, is nowhere near as curious as is Haley. Haley follows me around the backyard, pecks at bugs, and watches my every move. She just likes to hang out, and sitting on my ladder and watching me paint the house is her new favorite past time.

When she isn’t watching me paint, she is joining the rest of the birds in the shade of my neighbor’s pumpkin patch, which has grown up and over the fence and into our back yard. I knew they were enjoying the shade and all the squash bugs they could eat, but a closer investigation showed that there was more going on beneath the thick canopy of green leaves.

They were having pumpkin for lunch!