Gosh, Darn, & Golly Gee Whiz

You are not going to believe this.  First a little background.  My parents live in the city limits.  You are not supposed to have any type of "farm" animal inside the city limits.  My parents have neighbors (about 3 doors down) that have some chickens.  Yeah, chickens.  Neighbors have complained to the police mainly because of the rooster.  A lives next door to the "chicken" folk, he works 2nd shift and is tired of being woken up by a rooster.

Today.  My parents woke up to find a chicken in their fenced in yard.  Not the rooster but one of the chickens.  Strange sight, kind of cute sight.  The chicken made no effort to leave.  In fact she started hanging out under the bird feeders.  Guess she liked the bird seed that had fallen to the ground.  LOL

After the chicken had been there over half of today I go ask A if he would tell his neighbor to come get his chicken or my mom was calling animal control to come get it.  A told his neighbor.  And said neighbor didn't show.  A had the bright idea of catching the chicken and then taking it to the neighbors.  I have NEVER seen such a funny thing in my life!  That chicken started running like her life depended on it, and there was A right behind it.  After some thought A got an old table cloth and went after the chicken again.  After several attempts he finally got the chicken.

Now, A is walking out of my parents yard with this chicken (and the table cloth partially wrapped around it) and about the time he gets to the street there is this dude walking down the sidewalk just shooting some stares our way.  A just up and says "give you a chicken for a dollar".  LOL  The dude walking just keep going.  Didn't say a word.  LOL

Other news:  My neighbors moved.  It is so strange.  They are a young couple (early to mid 20's) they moved in just over a year ago (like 14 months or so).  She was pregnant when they moved in so their baby is close to a year old.  I came home one day and saw a moving van.  Sure enough they were moving.  I know for a fact they were buying the house.  It is not a rental.  There has been no for sale sign in the yard.  And now there is some kind of sticker on the front door saying that because the house is vacant is hasto be secure and that they (whoever the company is) will report it to the people that are holding the mortage within 3 days.

Did they just skip out on their mortgage?  So weird.  I have never seen anyone do that.  Usually (I thought) you would put the house for sale and let it go into foreclosure if there was a problem.  Strange I tell ya.

Went to a book signing.  Had fun.  But standing in line for hours to get a book signed.......

 

Oh, one more thing.  While doing some research for the anniverary thing, I found what I believe to be the most (let me know if I am wrong) comments left at any one entry (don't include John Scalzi) at a whopping 105.  Oh yeah.  And it wasn't at my journal.  :(    I want to see how many comments I can get at this entry.  Yes, I am begging.  Please leave a comment, even if it is just Hi.  Tell everyone you know to come here and say HI.  Lets see what kind of record we can set, ok?  Please?  Pretty Please? Don't make me grovel.  :)