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Lessons From a Rogue Rooster

An object lesson into the life of Peter.

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Andrea Calvert
Jun 08, 2024
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It has been a week. I won’t bore with all the details, but here’s the gist.

  • My faithful Corolla, who served me well for eight years, met an unfortunate end.

  • I tried to get a paper completed on a dense topic, while also dealing with the insurance company.

  • The residency for the D. Min. program starts on Monday, and until yesterday I didn’t know how I was going to get there because my rental was due back on Tuesday.

But the cherry on top, or maybe I should say the rooster on top, was accepting a free rooster for our chicken coop. (We live in a rural area.) “Roo” came to us on Tuesday night, and was returned, as quickly as possible, to his previous owners Thursday afternoon. I should note, we have chicks, they’re just not ready to go out to the chicken pen yet, and they’re certainly not ready to lay eggs or for a rooster.

“Roo” the handsome Silkie Rooster, that stayed with us for a couple days.

Follow me on this one, it’s a long and winding tale but I’m going to connect this story to Peter.

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