Earthquake...Tsunami....Tornado ?

Today when I walked into the house after work, I did not see my father in his usual spot, a comfy leather chair which he occupies for a good part of the day while recovering from his stroke. As I ventured into the kitchen there was my father on the floor watching TV!  It took me about 15 seconds to assess the situation.  My mother has a contemporary Danish kitchen table with three-legged chairs that are very tipsy.  Obviously my father had dozed off  and fallen off his chair.  I guessed that he couldn't get up so was waiting for someone to discover him.  However, on his way down he must have grabbed for anything to stabilize him...which happened to be the chicken container.  Everything that was in their home had shifted to one end creating a kind of cascade of food dish, water trough, and pine shavings. Their screening had been dislodged and here were Bella, Stella and Raquel at the top of the disheveled heap staring down at my father covered in pine shavings and ...well you know what is in pine shavings!  The momentary scene that ran through my mind at this point were three chickens running all over the house and me trying to catch them before my mom brought out her cleaver ready to serve them up for that night's dinner and my poor dad watching all this while still sitting on the floor.  I was somewhere between panic and bursting out laughing.  The sight was something to behold.  Before my vision became reality I grabbed the screening, threw it over their container while feathers flew and told my Dad to stay put. (Where was he going?!) I had no idea where my mom was...it was dark in the basement so not on her computer, outside then.  I rushed to the backyard and yelled for her.  It took both of us to pick him up, brush off the pine shavings and settle him into his chair.  My dad was fine, just a little shaken.  The poor chickens on the other hand did not know what hit them.  I eventually got their home back in order, fed them and watered them but did not hear a peep out of them.  I looked over the edge of their container and there were Bella, Stella and Raquel hunkered down into their pine shavings with their heads tucked under their wings sound asleep.  It was time to finish the coop!