Chapter 3
"What's this?" Nicole asked as she listened to the box peep.
"We just got us a few turkeys!" Dan replied.
"Turkeys? This is a perfact addition to our flock! Thank you so much, honey!"
"Don't thank me... Thank your son. He's the one that asked me to get them. He picked out five of them."
"Awwww..... Thank you, James! That's so sweet of you to do that for me!"
"Uh... Yeah, Mom." James studdered. It was mostly for him, but he couldn't risk getting in trouble again on that fine day.
"Is something wrong?"
"No... Nothing at all."
"Okay... Well... We better clear out that shed, so no predators get them at night. Why don't you go start on that, Dan? Oh... And I'll take a ride into town so those turkeys have some food! I can't believe you got some critters and forgot to get them food! Oh, and James, you can help your father clean out the shed."
"Okay... See ya in a bit." Dan said clearly to his wife.
"Right, Mom." James said.
James and Dan headed outside to the shed, while Nicole went to town.
"Why don't you take the lawn mower and put it under the porch?" Dan asked James.
"Okay." James sighed.
He grabbed the lawn mower and pushed it across the yard and under the porch. He ran back over to his father.
"Can you take that over there too?" Dan asked, pointing to the weel barrel filled with gardening tools.
"I guess. Anything else before I go back over?"
"Umm..... Yeah, but you can't carry anything more than that at a time. That's too heavy."
"Whatever." James muttered. He pushed the weel barrel under the porch and went back to Dan. "What else?"
"The weed wacker over in the back of the shed. That should be all."
"Okay." He took the weed wacker and headed over to the porch, and put it where it belonged.
Dan grabbed fire wood and stacked it on the porch, along the wall. James and Dan went back and forth carrying the mound of fire wood they have chopped.
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"Two bags of turkey crumbles please. The starter stuff." Nicole told the man who worked at the feed store.
"Coming right up. Lemme go out into the shed to get it for you." The man said.
"Okay." Nicole waited silently, while the man went outside.
He came back in with two bags of turkey crumbles. "Would this be the kind?"
"Yes.. Thank you."
Nicole put the feed in the truck, then hopped in. She drove about half way and saw something in the middle of the road. Then there was two. Then five. Then ten. She stopped and hopped out of the car. There was a bunch of chickens! She grabbed them one by one, and put them on the side of the road, making sure she didn't run over them. She got back in the truck and started to drive.
"Sweet little things." Nicole smiled.