Hi Mistress Moxon! Bet you didn't expect to see me here! Did the other chickens keep the secret? If you go to the Sparkly Flox thread you can learn all about my adventures.
I am and remain, THE IOWA CHICK! Stowaway Extraordinaire.
Greetings from Sunny California!
Good heavens! Those crafty chickens! They just get away with anything and everything these days. I wondered why there was such a cacophony when I departed with the box for the post office. Every day they have been carrying on in a most mysterious way. And now.....now I see....they have sent one of their own on the grandest adventure....she could have been lost or waylaid or even confiscated! Very brave little chicken! I am glad she had a comfy bed of yarn!
Ohh Ohh Ohh do I detect some of Claires yarn has made it to the coast??
I love the facebook thread as well...
If I only had about an hour.. I'm thinking there would have been plenty of company to bring home for that darling stowaway.
I can't wait to see you Catscan... we have MAJOR catching up to do! My head is still spinning right now..
AAAhhhhh LOL Spinning.. LOL
Henrietta...
You have been terribly silent today and I wonder what sort of trouble you are getting into. Dear me....don't get too over-confident and decide to go visit the zoo by yourself or anything nearly as bold. You are a small chicken and have much yet to learn. Do behave....
Mistress Moxon
Perhaps she's waiting to hook up with ZZ and go along on her next trip. Wanderlust seems to be in her blood!
Dear Moxon:
Henrietta has expanded her stowaway tendencies and hid herself in the truck I took to Bakersfield today. I really didn't know she was there until I arrived and looked for my shoes on the passenger side floor. There she was, sitting on the floor mat, bold as brass.
This is the actual truth....I had no intention of taking her and thought she was safely at home with her cousins.
I am beginning to worry that she will get into some real mischief. Have you considered sending her to pullet camp?
Dear Catscan:
Henrietta is an absolute scamp. I thought i had done a better job raising her than that. She has been unduly influenced by some of the rowdier members of the Moxon poultry clan (MPC). She wrote me a note to say that she had been to Bakersfield and picked tomatoes....I was just floored. Pullet camp may be the only option. Tough Love and all that. On the other hand, my family has it on reliable authority that we are very distantly related to Sir Francis Drake. She may have picked up some of the adventurer genetics, and you know, we wouldn't know that the world wasn't flat if it wasn't for those early explorers. I am loath to entirely dull her adventurous spirit. Perhaps under your tutelage, and the advice of the armadillo and gargoyle, she may come to develop in more predictable and useful ways?
I must be truthful though....just today, I heard rumblings in the MPC when they didn't know I was there. Seems they are planning a second stowaway to Lodi. I was befuddled, and then I listened more closely. There was discussion regarding "the truck" and "long trips" and "many states" and all that sort of thing. I have a feeling....there may be a plan to send a stowaway to ZZ. Of course, I have no idea how they would accomplish that because of course I don't have any packages going to her...
Really, just look at this motley crew. How on earth do I control them?
Very pretty chickens, they look like some of mine. The lil stowaway, Henrietta is adorable as well. She'd have great adventures with ZZ i'm sure. :)
Well.. now that I'm home.. and considered in great depth the capacity of the inside of the cab.. figuring, measuring.. planning... well, there's nothing wrong with dreaming!!!
Sorry.. I faded off there for a second...
I just love the devious expressions.. sneaky lil faces... How big is that pen? Hummm
You know.. I have my doubts that Henrietta was that much of a scamp... Catscan, are you sure you didn't want company at work and just sneak her in just this once?? Sure seems possible.. I mean, it's not a crime to take a chicken to work you know.. Oh yeah, that's right.. You DO know! LOL
Does she like tomatoes as much as your regular crew does?
Greykyttyn... I can't wait to get the chance to come back!!! I will too..
I DID NOT sneak Henrietta in the truck! I honestly didn't know she was there until it was too late.
When I arrived home Pekoe had all the chicks out of the brooder wandering around the bedroom floor. I think they must have formed a search party for Henrietta.
MIssouri-Lodi? Missouri-Lodi? Okay, lets go to Missouri!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaah!! Real hard decision huh? LOL
I almost have to believe you about Henrietta.. but just for the record.. I still have my doubts..
As for Pekoe, the ultimate mommy, it's time to get out for some exercise and doody lessons.. LOL
I tell you, she is a chick with a mind of her own.....
I know she is..
Oh you mean the chicken???
Uhhh....well...both....
Words of Wisdom:
No matter how reasonable, clever or productive it seems at the time, do not attempt to knit a sock on double pointed needles while driving 75 mph on Highway 5 through the Central Valley of California.
It muddles up the yarn terribly.
Oooo you could ALL move here. Have a nice little farm (300, 400 acres...) one house on each corner.. let the chickens mingle btwn houses.. think of all the animals you could have! ;)
Shesh.. do you have a death wish? Do you know what double pointed needles do to you at 75 mph if someone hits you! I'm dangerous enough with them sitting still let alone the battle scars from knitting while in a moving car. Pretty yarn tho. :) please do try to be safe with those needles.
Greykyttyn. You must cease and desist at once from this enticement to MO. It is entirely too tempting. Now just sit down and be quiet. ;-)
Catscan.....do NOT even start to begin to make me responsible for car accidents....ooohhhhhh noooo.....that is NOT my fault....no no no.....you must cease and desist at once from this knitting-while-driving business. Bah!
It's Moxie's siren yarn. So it is her fault. I did stop on the side of the access road to cast on and divide the yarn on the needles.
My death wish was already established by driving the "best" company field truck 400 miles. The maintenance people were very proud that the tires had tread....I haven't had the heart to tell them about the low engine temp, door that won't close, failing anti-lock breaks, burnt out turn indicator, check engine light that is on, and dying tranny.
Maybe when I get back tomorrow.
LOL You outlaw Catscan! I bet it almost made you drop the cellphone!
and companies who keep vehicles like that are the ones that keep me with a job. :)
I was very sad.. the lady at the Farmer's Market that has yarn has yet to be there this year. I was so looking forward to buying yarn from her.
sigh.. i'll be happy when the temps hit 60 during the day so I can start knitting again. I want to try & make socks this time. I can see Nutmeg in a little knitted cape too. The Modern Game hens are going to need leg warmers.. they are so tiny they are going to freeze. :)
I hope you are done with that project at work Catscan.. I can't for the life of me figure out how you can work like that... You are a worker bee!! I'm amazed.. You can outwork most men I know! LOL Now I'm scared of you.. You could probably pick me up and slam me to the ground. LOL
Greykyttyn - when I get up to speed, you can buy yarn from me! I can send you samples!!
ZZ - Catscan can pick you up and slam you to the ground just with her mind. She's like.... telekinetic, you know. Don't make her mad. You never know what she might be capable of...
Most women I know can outwork most men I know!
Well, that's generally true, but we try not to rub it in, otherwise they give up entirely.
So true.
lol u guys are great to listen too!
CMoxon - Yippie! thats great I can't wait!
Mistress--I had to sneak over onto this other thread, because the knitting lady is being very mean and unreasonable, and told me to stand in the corner until I said I was sorry.
But I think you will agree that I have nothing to be sorry for. I asked, ever so nicely, if I could go in the truck yesterday--just as you told me. But instead of being equally nice and polite, she said no! So I had to hide in her knitting bag or be left home with Aunty Pekoe and the babies.
We drove for mile and miles--and then met a lot of interesting foreign people and farmers out in a very, very hot tomato field. I got to have natural strawberry soda, a vegetarian submarine sandwich, and potato chips--but I didn't eat the chips, cause I knew you wouldn't approve.
Then we drove back.
Nothing bad happened and I was very polite to everyone. So why should I be the one being punished? I have very good manners. She is just a crabby old lady.
I think I will go and visit ZZ tomorrow. She sounds like a lot more fun.
Ummmmmm Henrietta! You are so naughty! I would love to have you for a visit.. but if you tell that mean ol mommy and she beats my butt.. your'e toast, you hear me? I know, I know, a girl my size shouldn't be scared of such a little thing like her.. but I'm scared, really scared... You should know! You saw her out there in triple digits picking all those tomatoes then unloading them hours later? I am scared and you should be too!
Henrietta Moxon! Now you just listen to me. Just because you have gone off on your own and are having a grand adventure, doesn't mean you can forget your manners. Well, if you had obeyed the lovely knitting lady, perhaps you would have had a treat, like going to the zoo or something. But no, you disobeyed, and even though you were polite and kind and quiet, it's the principle of the thing that matters. You must always obey your elders, just like you should obey Aunty Pekoe. Now that said, you by no means have to obey your cousins. They are young and silly and liable to get daft ideas. You must be the older, more reasonable and sensible cousin and give them wise counsel.
I think, if you are ever so good, you might be able to visit Mrs. ZZ, but you MUST be very polite to her and do NOT, under any circumstances, ask to go in her truck. Do you HEAR me Henrietta? Or else I will come out there and get you and bring you back to Iowa. Do not embarrass me! I do not want my farm known as a place that raises disobedient and delinquent chickens. You are an ambassador for Iowa chickens everywhere. You must act with the decorum that the position dictates. Now, if the lovely knitting lady were to starve you and call you names, well, then we would do something about it. But the fact of the matter is, she knows what is best for you and she is taking excellent care of you. She doesn't want you to grow up as a stubborn and obstinate little hen.
Please, do your heritage proud, and just behave. You go and apologize this very instant to the lovely knitting lady and you explain to her that I have given you a talking to, and you know what you did was wrong, and you ask her how you can be of assistance to her in helping her and Aunty Pekoe with those cousins of yours. You do exactly as she says, and you mind your chicken manners.
Goodness gracious me.
OMG Henrietta.....I don't know WHAT you did, but you better smarten the heck up, or there is going to be real fire and brimstone around here. Mom is in a complete snit. You are screwing up the PLAN Henrietta. The PLAN!!! Remember the PLAN?!!!! Do not mess this up. I will never forgive you. You promised you would be good. I told them they should have let me go first.
You are going to ruin this for everybody. Just STOP being so headstrong and stubborn.
The PLAN is the only thing that matters.
Well, Well, Who have we here? Might I ask your name you beautiful lil boo boo? Don't be shy, we can see you.. come on.. tell us!
Oh....ummm....sorry ma'am....I didn't realize anyone was...ummm.....listening....ummm.....
If you please, ma'am....my name is Hennypin, and I'm a friend of Henrietta's....and we, I mean I....miss her so much!
Okay--Smarty Henny Penny--whose blowing The Plan, now?
I remain, The One, the Only, Iowa Chick!
You are so NOT the one and only. Mom is going to put you in the slow cooker if you keep this up!!!
Okay now, you two.. You are both Iowa Chicks..
Who wants corn????
I do! I do!!!!! Yuuuummmmmmyyyyy!!!!
Ohh my my too funny