The Hen House

The Charming Dutch farmhouse with its traditional feature such as the Dutch Door, comes with its domestic animals. 

In the past, these animals were kept and fed for food. Today they roam freely as the garden pets, making their rounds in the yard to say good morning.

Next door is a nursery and the hothouses visible from my apartment. 

There is an abundance of flowers and flowering plants and it is used to decorate the farm. 

The henhouse is as quaint as the other structures and what caught my eye is the simplicity of decorating.

The henhouse is now used as a storage shed and the hens and a proud rooster sleeps with the pot bellied pigs, behind lace curtains.

A more prominent spot, next to the main farmhouse is a converted haystack. The closed-in unit with it lace-curtains is the home of two pot-bellied pigs. Upstairs is a small apartment built for the childrens sleepovers where they can watch TV, turn the music up, as the unit is not attached to the farm house. However, it is next door to my apartment. 

The overweight pigs, a boar and a gilt were in constant fighting mode. He would make advances towards her and she would bite him in return. In my understanding, that is a definite NO. Pigheaded as he is, he doesn’t take no for an answer and tries again followed by a pig squeal, as she bites him one more time.

There are several cats around, sleeping on the window sills when off duty, otherwise keeping the mouse population under control.  

With the guard dog stare, there are two small dogs around who can not decide between getting stroked or being on guard duty.