Pecking at the door.

Here's what happened this morning.  Mom comes in my room and opens my window at 6:50 and says, "Listen to this."  I heard, "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" "Cocadoodledoo" (say that for 30 more minutes).  The sun wasn't even up and the hens were probably miserable in the coop with all that crowing.   It was loud in my room 50 yards away from the Rooster Alarm clock - that doesn't have a snooze button. 

Later, this morning Mom heard pecking at the door.  My mom and I went with my sister to see who wanted in.  Not everyone sees this at their front door.  So we took pictures of them. This is what we saw this morning:

4 Chickens - Do you think they want to hand us Jesus tracks & invite us to church?  That's pretty much the only people who tap at our front door out here.  

This is a wet chicken.  Notice all the curly feathers that usually swoop upward are all sagging.  Also see the spikey, hair-gelled, hair-doo around his neck - all from the rain.

I think this one looks like he's dancing.  "I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain.  What a glorius feeling please let me in your house." 

Parker

Dramatic Chipmunk

This song is hilarious. I hope you like it.  He has a bunch of hilarious songs.

Parker

Bambi

Do not worry Bambi lovers.  I will not kill Bambi...






I will only kill his daddy.



Parker

Food

Well, farm kids know something that city kids may not know.  They know where food comes from.  Like:  eggs come from chickens.  And milk comes from cows.  And wool comes from sheep.  Guess where chicken tenders come from?  .......... chickens. 

 You know how when you buy a chicken at Walmart it doesn't say "hen" or "rooster" on the packaging?  I think they are roosters.  Here in the country people eat their roosters and keep their hens for eggs.

We brought home 22 chickens this summer.  It is turning out that some of them are making rooster noises and growing combs.  What does this have to do with food?  Here's the thing, hens give us eggs.  Roosters give us (at least around here):  chicken tenders, chicken casserole, chicken pot pie, chicken caccatori, chicken soup. chicken hash, chicken sandwich, chicken salad, chicken tetrazinni, fried chicken, baked chicken, roasted chicken, and grilled chicken!  That sounds good.  I'm hungry. 

Well, the roosters are going to get eaten - by us.  So I am not very happy.  But my mom is going to buy me new chickens for the ones that we eat.  So, now I am OK with it.  One more thing, we still have a hen who seems to be crowing.  It is very weird.

Parker

Deer

This weekend was youth weekend.  That means if you are 12 years old or under you could hunt with a rifle for free.  My dad and I spent about 2 days in the tree stand.  Sunday evening My dad and I were out for our third hunt (this weekend).  Just when we were going to leave I poked my dad and said, "deer!"  When I pointed to it he said, "Don`t point."  So I told him where it was.  It took him a couple minutes to find it (because the sun was setting).  A bit after he saw it I started aiming at it with my gun.  It started walking towards us.  It walked into a clear shot area.  I fired.  When I fired my dad wasn`t exactly ready.  He said he saw it jump when I fired my gun.  Dad said deer don`t usually jump unless you hit them.  After a little waiting we went to search for the deer. We couldn't` find it because it was too dark.  So we decided to try to find it in the morning.  My dad asked our neighbor to help us search for it in the morning.  Yesterday morning we searched and searched and searched.  At the end we found some muscle and hair in 2 different places.  But it turns out that I shot low and the deer is still alive...rats.  So that is the story of my deer.
If you need me I will be in our tree stand.
Parker

Thump

This song is hilarious everybody at my house is always singing it. I hope you like it too.

Parker

What is it?

Guess what this is... ... ... is it animal?  Is it mineral?  Is it dinner?  Is it meteorite?  is it coral?  Here is looks like the moon.

Now it looks like the beach on a bad day.

Now it looks like bacteria.

Done guessing?  Well here it is.

It is a squash!  It looks like this because it is moldy.  Who knew moldy squash could look like that?  Not me.

Parker