Sherry Fam Farm Jr.

We have a mini farm going on here at our house. I haven’t had time to document all the farm happenings because I have been busy purchasing dogs and chickens among many other things at a shocking rate. So yes we now have four chickens and two dogs. We are down one chicken and one snake.

We brought Clucky, Nugget, Beyonce, Whoopi and Tina home the same day our stuff arrived. Seth was at work so Wisdom built our chicken coop alone and it was slightly sub-par. I had a full on battle royale with the dogs as they broke into the coop and repeatedly attacked the chickens. It was nuts! There were feathers everywhere! I was holding Cali, yelling for Gloria, screaming at the dogs and literally throwing them by the scruff of the neck over the fence of the coop, multiple times. It ended with me, bent down holding Cali and both dogs, on the ground while Gloria raced after our poor chickens. That is how Beyonce got her name. She is ... a Survivor.

Unfortunately, today we had another attack and we lost Whoopi. I cried like a baby. I like the chickens so much better than the dogs – I was ready to give Lily away. Seth butchered her (Whoopi, the chicken; not Lily, the dog) and she is in the freezer. I know I can’t hold a candle to the Brisco and Ellie story (I am sure I have spelt at least one name wrong) but I just can’t eat her. Seth spent most of the morning with Wisdom rebuilding the chicken coop.

The dogs, exhausted after a long night of terrorizing the chickens

The snake however, is a much lighter story because who likes snakes anyway. Wisdom came over to me the other day and said, “Madam, there is a snake.” (He and Gloria both call me Madam – so weird). He then proceeded to make a circle the size of a softball. Well, that shocked me into action. I said, “Where is it and what to we do?” He pointed to our ornamental banana trees and said, “Um, I think we should burn it out.” Done! No snake was going to be eating my children or chickens.

We torched the bananas to no avail, it was exciting though –sounded like firecrackers. Gloria, Wisdom, Seth and I all took turns poking around at the base of the blackened trees. Thomas stood ready with wooden sword in hand. Then Gloria yells, “I see it!” Wisdom took a few pitiful whacks at the creature then Seth snagged the shovel from him and ran for it. He struck it twice and it reared back at him but in the end, Seth won. The snake, was no bigger around than a golf ball. Did I mention Zambians are scared of snakes?

Wisdom, the proud "snake slayer"

How hilarious is it that in all the commotion, Gloria ended up with the baby and the machete?