Butch the Rooster

 

 

Sarah was in the fertilized egg business.  She had several hundred young pullets and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.  

 

She kept records and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.

 

This took a lot of time, so she bought some tiny bells and attached them to her roosters.

 

Each bell had a different tone, so she could tell from a distance which rooster was performing.

 

Now, she could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

 

Sarah's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen but, this morning she noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

 

When she went to investigate, she saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.

 

To Sarah's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.

 

He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and walk on to the next one.

 

Sarah was so proud of old Butch, she entered him in a Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

 

The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Peace Prize" they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.

 

Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.

 

Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention?

 

Vote carefully in the next election. You can't always hear the bells.

 

( If you don't send this on, you're a chicken......   no yolk!)

Continuing our chicken theme someone sent me AN AD.... five week old pullets----   from Georgia.  the girls ranged in price from 39   TO $69 dollars And you had to buy 2 somehow we have to find something better..   and that never even addressed the complicated paperwork of trying to ship chickens from Georgia to Massachusetts.. still working on it.

 

Lynn is moving her office back down to the laundry building so there's a great flurry of activity about that somehow I think that building needs to be redesigned but that's not my problem...

 

hAY IS  more of my problem.

 

There is a whole world on the other side of topsfield----   and by driving back and forth to Meredith.(BECAUSE JANINE FORGOT TO BRING WANDA WITH  HER)  I ran into 4 ladies with those 36 inch picker uppers that people in wheelchairs sometimes have to pick up objects..  they were out walking ----beautiful day and picking up the trash people had thrown out of their cars when they were there for the topsfield fair usual collection soda cans and trash in general and they were having a lovely time while picking up trash...   so I stopped and said I I couldn't possibly join them but I could give them a monkey fist because I'd been sitting around making monkey fists all day and they were thrilled ----One of the women said when she got up this morning it never occurred to her there's someone would give her a monkey fist And that she would smile so at the prospect of  only one of her very own---  I we sat there and talked for few minutes so killing time over in that side of the world is a whole different experience..  there are an awful lot of people that walk by Meredith just to check on the animals that are out there in the front pastURES which at the moment is the two Colts everybody is fascinated with them...  I hung around wanting to see Wallace ride one of the bucking Broncos that they have over there but that didn't workout... he did ride Fabio...   a huge 19 hand horse  with it awful lot of hair apparently like the star Fabio but he was very well behaved and not exciting at all.

 

The men at Meredith putting up the WOODEN FENCING ARE MAKING  GOODo. progress and they have the straightest line of fencing I think I have ever seen so they're doing a fantastic job as I suppose they would have to... but they haven't started to take anything down.

 

I DID TRY “COOKING THE  RAMON NOODLES WITH THE HOT WATER OUT OF THE KIRIG COFFEE MAKER.  2X'S ..AND SORRY TO REPORT A FAILURE.. I EVEN TRIED RUNNING IT THRU THE MICROWAVE TO HEAT.. NO DICE... THEY NEED A REAL BOIL... IN MY OPINION...

 

WE DO HAVE THAT UP COMINMG COURT CASE..... TO PREPARE FOR THAT I NEED TO GO OVER THE REEMS OF MATERIAL FULL OF WITNESSES AND DOCUMENTS.  THANKS TO  OUR CP  IN CANADA WE HAVE A MINUTE BY MINUTE 5 YEARS BEFORE ANYONE MOVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT   TO ESTABLISH A NORM... HEAVY STUFF...

 

Carlene White