Karen thanks for my laugh of the morning loved the story Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Fox" <karenmfox@verizon.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Life on the Farm > Here's a story from when I was 7 years old that I hope will give you a > grin. > > Many Sundays, we would go and visit my father's Aunt Carrie on her > Tulpehocken Twp farm. At the time my brother was 3 years old and full of > energy. Aunt Carrie had free range chickens, ducks and geese (and > sometimes guinea fowl) that would often wander up into the yard and > orchard. I learned early on that geese were ornery and it hurt when they > would "flop" you with their wings and to avoid them. My brother however, > loved to run and chase the birds. > > For weeks he took a liking to a certain rooster and would try to "catch" > him to no avail. It was funny to watch. When my brother would stop and > rest, the rooster stopped and waited for him and they would start all > over. Then one day, the rooster decided enough was enough. My brother > started chasing the rooster and the rooster circled around and started > chasing him! My brother thought this was great fun - until the rooster > caught him and pecked him in the hiney! It didn't hurt him, but he did end > up with three little holes in his back jeans pocket. He was surprised and > ran into the house crying. He didn't want to go back outsde because the > rooster was on the porch, waiting for him. Finally my Dad shooed the > rooster back down to the chicken house. > > The next week we arrived at Aunt Carrie's and had a nice pot of homemade > chicken soup for lunch. Then my brother, who was so over the hiney peck > episode of the week before, went out to find "his" rooster. He couldn't > understand why the rooster was nowhere to be found and no one wanted to > tell him that that rooster was main part of his chicken soup lunch. So > they just told him that the rooster was probably off wandering somewhere. > And my brother quickly diverted his attention to happily playing with the > farm cats. > > We still to this day tease him about getting pecked in the hiney by the > rooster! > > Karen from Berks > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message