I am so sorry to have been gone since Thanksgiving!! OMGoodness!  That's awful. 

Global warming has missed us here in the mighty Midwest.  I have a rooster living in my kitchen bathroom shower stall! 

Poor buddy.  I got him this summer as a charity case.  He had already lost all his toes past the first joint to frostbite!  They said he came from Georgia with a family who had moved here and tried to keep him in a motel.  Anyway, he turned out to be a nice old guy and understandably, snow is not his thing.

One cold snap last month he was about crippled and the young rooster immediately moved up the pecking order.  So this old guy had to be taken over to the horse barn every day to establish his own domain, until the young guy moves to Ft. Wayne with our friends, sometime soon.  At night we sneak the old codger into a nesting box with a drape. 

He learned the drill pretty quickly.  If it was warm enough for his toes to endure the jump to the floor, he would bolt out the pophole and head for the corner of the fence where we cut over to the horse barn.  If the weather was nice he would just hang out in the pasture, in sight of the flock and coerce hens to come to his side of the fence.  I was pretty sure he was saying "Leave that young punk who chases you mercilessly.  I am smooth and gentle.  C'mon over." or something along that line.  Maybe playing some Barry White in the barn or something.

ANYWAY, he couldn't stand outside in the snow, so eventually he was spending his days in the barn.  By then the hens knew where he was and they would trek through the snow to hang with him in the big barn where they could scratch horse poop all day. 

Then the cold was too cold and the snow was too deep.  And he was all alone in the barn, sitting on his poor stumpy feet.  Then, it was Super Bowl Sunday.  We were leaving around 4 p.m. for the night.  He couldn't go into the henhouse before dark and he couldn't sit in the barn until 11 p.m.  But, I woke up with this wonderful idea about the shower stall!  DH said okay, and so here he is. 

He's pretty bored in there, but he is warm.  I take him out to the barn when I go out to clean, so he can flap his wings and strut around a little.  But I think he's glad to be warm.

BTW, WE WON THE SUPERBOWL!

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