Pear the Silky Rooster and a friendly hen came to help hang the wash.. Well, they tend to congregrate around the barrels that contain their feeds, I guess it's the way they try to remind me it's time to eat, or that they could use a little more today.. I try not to put out too much at one time, we already have dozens of sparrows visiting. Some towns limit the number of chickens citizens are allowed. I just sent 6 eggs along with a family that lives in Kushima. Their kids want to try raising chickens from the egg with an incubator. I thought they wanted a nice group of 5 and was thinking of the timing and the group dynamics... But here they just wanted eggs. Luckily I had a bunch that didn't go over to the neighbors or into my frying pan yet so.. Lucky! Kushima is a 3 hour drive down south. They stopped by on the way home from a camping trip a few hours north in Kumamoto somewhere. But they'll be back to Mimata: when people hear of it they tend to want to learn how Mimata gets all this community stuff working, the Kodomo (Kids or ChiIki Local) Shokudo (Cafeteria) the Free NIght School with the free meal on Tuesday night.. I guess you need a Social Welfare Office that is really good at coordinating things, working with the local grassroots talent and goodwill...

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