backyard-chickens

Magic in the Ordinary

~ Johnell DeWitt ~ 2 Comments
Exhibit A: Evidence that I am NOT an illustrator, and a fun challenge I did through KCU. A “paneling” exercise with my chickens as inspiration. I wanted to test the flow of panels without the rigidity of them.

I fished a rat snake out of my hens’ nesting box before locking them up for the night. A day in the life of a pretend homesteader I guess. To top it off, said snake chose to invade my chicken coop during one of our famous, spontaneous thunder-with-dumping-rain-storms.

Meet Scooby. When we got him as a chick, we didn’t know if he was a rooster or a hen for the longest time, so we named him Scooby–our mystery chick. He’s now much older, much bigger, but still a mystery.

With one hand holding the umbrella, I couldn’t get the snake and hold the lid up, so I trucked into the house to fetch a glove, boots, and a poncho, the latter of which, I remembered too late, was with my daughter at camp. Sigh…

So, not-very-water-proof-hoodie draped over my head and back instead, work glove on, back out to the coop to fetch the snake, boots sloshing in the mini-river shooting down the drive, snake relocated and slithering angrily away, chickens accounted for and locked up for the night, I plowed inside and plopped down to write this post…that I’m just now finding time to edit and publish.

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