{"id":15720,"date":"2016-06-12T06:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15720"},"modified":"2016-06-12T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T06:40:07","slug":"the-rain-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15720","title":{"rendered":"The rain came"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I did all my weekend chicken chores. I swept the patio, washed the food and water bowls and dug over the run. I opened all the panels to let the sun in.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon it started to rain gently. It was so dry and dusty in the run that I thought I would leave the panels open for a bit to dampen down the run.<\/p>\n

The next minute the rain turned into to an absolute down pour. I ran up to the run and frantically started closing up the panels. Rain was dripping into my sleeves and my wellies were soon were caked in mud. The girls looked a bit perplexed.<\/p>\n

It is so warm at the moment that it will soon dry out. No doubt the girls will leave muddy footprints on the patio that I have just swept. It was so clean and dry one minute and wet the next.<\/p>\n

\"Oh<\/a>

Oh dear! It’s raining<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I love the way the girls line up<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Then<\/a>

Then they bunch together again<\/p><\/div>\n

They have gone from sitting in the sun the day before to standing watching the rain the next day. That’s a typical summer here in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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