"Depression buster" foods are foods high in the nutrients that depression folks tend to be deficient in. The list of foods is pretty wild and crazy. There is a lot of wild game on the list. I used to run around here saying "That animal in the tree is a depression buster. Let's eat it for dinner." Here in the Sequoia National Forest, there is an abundance of options for dinner if you keep an open mind, even at night in your chicken coop. But I've realized that I've lost a bit of spunk being tired and pregnant.
A few nights ago I found myself still awake at midnight and heard a lot of cackling in the hen house. My husband was just turning in so we both grabbed flashlights and headed out. At night you don't think to take a camera, but I really should have because as I carried up the rear by about thirty feet, I could see a shadow of a large rodent against our fence. The chicken coop is a building with chicken wire screen on the upper portion of two walls. One screen wall faces the fence with the rodent silhouette. My husband was in the coop with a flashlight strapped to his head like a miner, shining right on the possum, and casting a large shadow on the fence. It reminded me of the scene in "Lady and the Tramp" where a large rat shadow is cast on a wall and Lady and Tramp scramble to save the new baby from a rat attack. In any case, the only picture is in my mind.
"It's a possum."
"Shoot it and throw it into the canyon."
"First, I don't have a gun and, second, isn't this a nutrient dense food that fights depression?"
He grabbed a stick and tried to usher the possum out of the coop. The problem is that possums freeze rather than move. Faced with bludgeoning it to death or heading back to bed, we let the chickens fend for themselves. Since that night, chickens have disappeared rather strangely, so there is obviously more than possums around here. I guess it is time to load the gun and have a camp out.
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Comments (3)
We have lost a number of chickens to possums. Apparently around our place they like to eat the chicken as much as they do the eggs (I will skip describing the carcasses we have seen left behind). The shadow picture would have been great, though!
Posted by Jennifer | September 15, 2008 6:59 AM | Reply
Yeah!!! Get your gun Annie!
We keep the pellet gun locked and loaded! I bet we've got a dozen deer with pellets in their butts!
So glad you're doing so well. I so enjoyed your story about the wedding and little Frederick!
Posted by diane | September 15, 2008 8:03 AM | Reply
I did not know that about possums. Nasty things. We haven't had signs of the dead chickens, that's what makes this caper a bit strange.
Yesterday evening the chickens were excited so Sander went down to check them out. I heard him running back laughing.
"Skunk!" He shouted.
I grabbed a camera since, after all, I missed the possum shadow picture. The skunk was two feet away from the door of the hen house and I was warned that if I got sprayed, I'd be banned from the house for a week. I didn't take a picture.
Amanda
Posted by Amanda Rose | September 15, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply