I hadn't had the chance to tell my daughter that Mildred was being locked up for her own good, so she let her out when she closed the chickens up for me yesterday. No problem, I put her back in before I went in the house - I had to take some supplies out and decided to check on them.

One thing from this morning. I left Mildred with almost a gallon of water yesterday evening. When I went to change the water this morning, it was all gone. There was no sign of a spill. It wasn't frozen inside the tank. It was gone.

Do you suppose she drank all that over the course of the night? Maybe one reason she looked so haggard is that Bob was keeping her from getting to the main water can.

Yeah, this quarantine is a good thing.