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Throwing a 3 inch grasshopper into a Chicken pen is lots of fun to watch. One Chicken will have the hopper hanging out its beak running all over, with the other Chickens following until another Chicken steels it from her. One day I was intenerating myself with a large grasshopper and the Chickens. At one point all 17 chickens were in a pile trying to be the one with the grasshopper, when out of the group sprang the lucky chicken with the grasshopper hanging out her mouth at full run, right it to a post. She knocked herself out for a count of three, got up shook her head and was back into the chase. At this point I open the gate to the pen and the Chicken with the hopper is out the gate at full speed with one other Chicken right next to her. The Chicken with out the hopper, grabs half of the hopper that is hanging out the mouth of the Chicken with the Hopper, and she digs her spurs into the ground and comes to a stop. [Have you ever seen a rodeo where a Cowboy throws his rope around a cow running at full speed?] Well! That is what happen to that Chicken when the other Chicken stopped with the other half of that Grasshopper in her beak. The Grasshopper got ate and my entertainment was gone.
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Heres one I did when I was about 10 or 11. Mom and pop bought a house in a development that still was building homes in. The house behind us was one of them homes that were still being built when we moved into our home. One day when my sister brother and I come home from school on a Friday. The constructor workers had bug a whole big enough to put a car in. (I believe it was going to be for the septic tank). Well, we with some other kids from the neighborhood decide to make this large whole our secret fort. We go into the house that is under construction and take some long 2X4 and place them across the large whole then we take some sheets of plywood and lay on top of the 2x4. Now! In order for it to be a secret fort we cover it all with sand so no one can see it. We dig a small whole at one end just large enough for a kid to slip in and out of.
We play in our secret fort all weekend, and then on Monday we were off to school and cant wait to get out of School to get back to our secret fort. We get home change into our play clothes and out the back boor we go, we froze in out tracks when we saw that a Bulldozer had fallen into our secret fort or booby trap. We run back into the house, And Mom says; why arent you kids going outside. O-we, got homework to do!
[no one got hurt]
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Heres one I did when I was about 10 or 11. Mom and pop bought a house in a development that still was building homes in. The house behind us was one of them homes that were still being built when we moved into our home. One day when my sister brother and I come home from school on a Friday. The constructor workers had bug a whole big enough to put a car in. (I believe it was going to be for the septic tank). Well, we with some other kids from the neighborhood decide to make this large whole our secret fort. We go into the house that is under construction and take some long 2X4 and place them across the large whole then we take some sheets of plywood and lay on top of the 2x4. Now! In order for it to be a secret fort we cover it all with sand so no one can see it. We dig a small whole at one end just large enough for a kid to slip in and out of.
We play in our secret fort all weekend, and then on Monday we were off to school and cant wait to get out of School to get back to our secret fort. We get home change into our play clothes and out the back boor we go, we froze in out tracks when we saw that a Bulldozer had fallen into our secret fort or booby trap. We run back into the house, And Mom says; why arent you kids going outside. O-we, got homework to do!
[no one got hurt]
