The Girls Are In For A Surprise Tomorrow.....

 I am heading over to the Princess' house tomorrow to pick up the rooster that she told the Beast was ready for us now.  Personally, I could do without it but  he thinks that it might be nice to be able to raise more chickens...from scratch!  LOL.  We'll see.

I was hoping to pick up Chewlee so she could spend a few days of her vacation with us but, unfortunately, she did a couple bad things...and I mean BAD....so she is grounded all week.  It's her Spring break, too.  I'm really disappointed since we intended to do a couple things while she was here but, that's life when you have an (almost) nine year old.  It's kind of like the Terrible Twos while she practices to be a pre-teen.  I know from her actions that she is angry about something in her life but you know how that goes.  I doubt she can even put into words what is really bothering her.  I have my suspicions (no, it's not her brother, either).  If it were, her actions would be leading to mistreatment of him.

One of her little friends that lives close to us is dying to come and see the chickens.  I gather the Beast told his mother she was welcome to come over any time and see them.  I really thought that Chewlee would like showing them to him but now she won't be able to.  The Beast is going over to a friend's house to take pictures of some kids for her and one of them is a girl Chewlee knows and likes.  He was going to take her with him to help keep the girl entertained until it was her turn.  There are about a dozen kids that he will be taking their pictures for their parents.  But it means he will be making up at least one 5x7 print for them and then he will give the gal a CD with pictures of all the kids so that additional pictures can be made up if wanted.

He's been testing this one lens of his that he hasn't used much to make sure it is the right one for this shoot.  He needed to know  it's depth of field, etc. depending on light, distance and other things.  He's finally convinced it is the right one to use.  

I went out to feed the chickens their cracked corn today and it was really funny.  As soon as I started scattering it around there was a mad dash for the doors to get out into the yard where I was.  I mean that literally.  It was the funniest thing I saw all day.  As I scattered it, they stood near their favorite areas waiting for me to put some of it there for them.  As soon as I was done, another mad dash.  I think these chickens have only two speeds and mostly use just the mad dash one.  You get the impression they are only slowing down to catch their breath.

I'm picking up the rooster and we are just going to put it in the yard and scatter the corn once he's in there.  We will just watch and see how he interacts with the girls and see what they think of him.  What we will do if they react badly, I have no idea.  We don't really have a separate place for him until the girls get used to him but I'll leave that up to the Beast to figure out.  He's the one that wanted it.

Time for me to get some sleep.  I'm very tired.  Love you all.  Oh...and never get tired of doing little things for others.  Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.  And, be kind without any thought of getting something in return.  The reward is yours just from that small act of kindness, even if it's just a smile.  ***Hugs***