Merry Christmas, Chickie Girls
Barbara and the Chickie Girls received a Christmas card this year. It was from the Neighbors Next Door who wanted to wish them a Merry Christmas and extend an open invitation to an oven party at their house. The Neighbors Next Door have been remembering the girls with lots of treats: corn, pumpkins, watermelon and pumpkin pie, even. It occurred to the Food People that perhaps the Neighbors Next Door were interested in fattening up the girls for the future.
On Christmas Day, the Food People got together a dozen eggs and took them over to keep the Neighbors Next Door from thinking about Barbara and the girls in THAT way. The Neighbors were most gracious and shared Christmas treats with the Food People. The Chickie Girls lost out on the Neighborâs treats that day, so the Food Lady took a huge bunch of grapes out and shared with everyone in the coops.
The Big Girls as well as Leroy and Hot Stuff gobbled the grapes and bit the Ladyâs fingers trying to outdo one another for treats. Walter hung in the background and crowed his big basso/baritone crow. Hot Stuff and Leroy are boy sopranos, and the Ameraucana brothers Silver and Bob are tenors. The Speckled Sussex boys are just learning to crow, and still sound like a cat strangling.
Barbara and Leroy have ventured out into the outdoor pen, but the weather is so cold, they have to go back in to get warm. There was a little bit of snow today, so they did get their feet washed off. It is going to be a long winter. . .
