Today Is A Must Have Coffee Morning

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I'm groggy this morning. I've been up for a few hours but I'm not "awake" yet or not awake enough to get started with my chores. We were up all night with little stray adopted doggie barking all night long. She usually sleeps and is no problem. There was something that got her interest last night and kept her up ALL night long barking. With hubby having to get up at 5 am, this wasn't a good thing. He went out first and walked around. He also threatened her...haha. He didn't see anything. We both dozed off to sleep for a bit and I woke up to both dogs barking so I put my shoes on and headed outside. I checked my chicken coops. Didn't see any holes but the chickens were not where they normally sleep. I didn't know if the little dog upset them or if something was after them. There were no holes in the wire. So back inside. The next time the barking began we both got up and went outside. Didn't seen anything again. Chicken coop was fine. Got dogs settled. Had a short nap band again both dogs barking. Hubby is snoring so I went outside again. When I didn't come right back hubby came to see what was going on. I found that something was trying to get in the chicken pen. I found a hole and I had half a bag of sand stored there because the fence had been repaired there and the heavy bag of sand acted as reinforcement. Count my chickens and yes, one is gone. Figured out which one. No signs of tracks around the coop. Hubby thinks I'm delusional at this point and says there are no feather. I said yes there is, right there. So I mend the fence as best I could and put the sandbag back. He says there is no way something moved that bag. I just said something did. It had to be an animal. A human would have used the door. Now it is less than hour away from alarm clock time. He is stressed. He got another hour and half of sleep before he had to get up. He turned alarm off in his sleep. After I woke him up, I crashed. He left, and then came back. He said get up, your chicken is walking around the yard. I went outside and yes, there's my girl! She was too spooked to try to catch her so I went back to bed. My mission today among other things is to catch this gal. What does your day look like today? Photo: Pixabay, public domain