Maybe I am going to be able to make this work!!

As you know Jacob had a birthday this week and the party was yesterday evening. Dad/Dave was in charge of the 8 party boys until Melissa got home from work. I was also at work so didn't hear the total story until Dave showed up this morning with some degree of concern for the status of my chickens.

Not knowing what else to do with 8 wired little boys he brought them over for the grand farm tour thing. Most of these guys were town kids so that had some appeal. When they arrived the biggest draw was--you guessed it-- the chickens. First they turned them out and kids and chickens flew mostly everywhere.. Dave, ever resourceful, offered the group $1 for every white chicken they caught (limit 1 per kid) and 50 cents for any brown or black one. Everyone caught one, so he had to pay out!! Tony Slaba remembered that he had roped chickens at a 4th of July bash in Geddes, and he was interested in trying his skill at that again. So everyone got a twine and Dave shut an unlucky group of chickens in the chicken yard and let everyone go. Eventually the chickens got tired enough that everyone managed to twine at least one. During this entire mayham Dave's two hunting dogs were going beserk-- they were under the impression that chasing chickens was not ok--

They managed to put at least 1 chicken to sleep and ended up with pony rides on
Sis. According to Racheal when they got back to Dave's for pizza the chicken rodeo was the main topic of conversation. Bet no one else in Jacob's class has had a birthday party quite like this!!

Surprisingly, I still picked eggs today!!

(Sorry Bobbie, I sent you a e-mail with the same information and then decided to try this thing again) the question is if I will get it to work again some day??? Love, MOM