I got up early and finished mowing and weed eating before going to meet Joanna and Craig to pick up Run-Around Sue,
Zoey her two baby chicks. As usual nothing is simple. Joanna and I planned on meeting at the intersection of
Coburg Road and McKenzie View Drive to make the switch at 9:45 a.m. Joanna and Craig are, of course, there early and waiting as I peel up in my new Toyota Camry at precisely 9:45 a.m. Trunks are opened, the boxes cackling and cheeping were exchanged with great skill. Of course Joanna was so organized, she brought samples of the different feed and such that she was using so the transition would be easier. I, raised on a farm with many animals, siblings and chickens, always thought that you just went out and threw some scraps to em and that was good! But of course as a kid, I didn't really care how they were raised....just liked plucking the feathers during butchering and gathering eggs. Left the rest up to Mom and Dad. Well along comes some guy speeding up and told us in a VERY RUDE way that this corner was private property up to the highway...didn't even hardly slow down and kept on driving with his trunk flapping in the wind. I haven't seen Joanna this mad ever before and I still laugh when I think of it. She was so mad about his rudeness she wanted to leave a little gift (I won't mention what). However, she was a good gal and left peacefully. I was so tickled by her I couldn't even get mad. But gosh, you would think our meeting was a drug exchange or
something!
When I arrived at the house with the chickens, Kyla, Jed and Emma were there to pick up Jed's bike to have some work done on it for his birthday. So we all got to experience the release of the chickens. Jed reached in and tried to pet Run-Around-Sue and she left him with a little red spot where she
squawked and pecked him. Nice birthday present! After putting their feed and water out, we let them out in the chicken coop and they are adjusting well.
Run-Around Sue
Later that evening, we had birthday dinner of
lasagna, asparagus, salad and strawberry shortcake for Jed. He got lots of gift certificates....we all know how he loves to bargain shop! Actually he couldn't think of what he wanted this year. We won't even go into the shoe shopping trip for him I tried to do....another story
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