Today’s Run:  6.20 miles

Many of you already know I write a few children’s stories for a regional magazine.  The main character is one of my hens~Ed Stakrispie:  Detective Hen.  Ed is always getting herself into a pickle and is extricated by her faithful helper, Ginger the hen.

Well, in real life, Ed Stakrispie has been a real stinker.  I am thinking of changing her name to Houdini.  She has been escaping like crazy!  She has escaped 8 times in the past two days.  Silly chicken.

Ed comes up to the back door and peeks into the kitchen.  Just stands there like a peeping tom.  That gives me the creeps~a peeping tom hen.

This afternoon, on escape #3, I looked out the back window and sure enough, there was Ed face to face with Kali the cat!  I had just finished writing a story last week where those two had an encounter and here was the real thing.

Ed was walking around the cat like the cat was in her way and Kali the cat was getting into that Kitty Crouch, you know, the way they do before they “pounce” on something.

I lit out of the back door and said something like, “Ed Stakrispie!  What are you doing!?!”  That stopped the cat and got Ed’s attention.  She walked right up to me, “Cluck, cluck cluck” and then lowered herself onto the ground.  She wanted me to CARRY her back to the chicken house!  She was tired!!!

ARGH!!!  What a chicken!!!  So, I dutifully picked her up and carried her back to the chicken house~all the while softly scolding her.  She immediately went into the nesting box and laid an egg.  I guess she thought I could get her to a nesting box faster than she could.  Who knows what chickens think!