SUSAN NEWMAN: Yesterday I asked you in Hebrew what was the name of the kibbutz where you peeled potatoes and told you that my kibbutz was Dovrat near Afula. I stayed there for 6 months, learning Hebrew in an Ulpan 1/2 a day and working for a 1/2 a day.
Well, if I were a rooster, I’d be ornery, too, if my harem had suddenly disappeared — roosters can’t exactly take a cold shower every time they’re in the mood, after all!
Down in the hen house on my knees,I thought I heard a chicken sneeze,But it was only the rooster sayin’ his prayersThankin’ the Lord for the hens upstairs.Rooster prayin’, hens a-layin’,Pore little pullets just pluggin’ away best they know how.
I lived in the upstairs of a farmhouse when I was small. In the yard was a mean, nasty rooster I was scared to death of. I told my older brother about it and he said he’d do something about it. One night we were all eating chicken for supper. My brother, being a big tease, said: “Remember that mean rooster. Will, I killed him-and now we’re eating him.”
When we visited my folks, I’d send Daryn out to the hen house to gather the eggs. Once, he reached under one to get an egg and got pecked on the arm.He came back in the house – “That chicken bit me!!”
hausof7mau: Not likely. A hawk can’t carry away a grown chicken but would eat it there or drag it a short distance, leaving visible remains. Pigs are a likely suspect or something in order Carnivora, if there are any in that part of Canada.
arye uygur over 12 years ago
The 1st panel with the 2 kids is sooo cute!
arye uygur over 12 years ago
SUSAN NEWMAN: Yesterday I asked you in Hebrew what was the name of the kibbutz where you peeled potatoes and told you that my kibbutz was Dovrat near Afula. I stayed there for 6 months, learning Hebrew in an Ulpan 1/2 a day and working for a 1/2 a day.
legaleagle48 over 12 years ago
Well, if I were a rooster, I’d be ornery, too, if my harem had suddenly disappeared — roosters can’t exactly take a cold shower every time they’re in the mood, after all!
kfccanada over 12 years ago
UMmmm sounds like Uncle Vern could empathize with the rooster…for some reason. lol
TheSkulker over 12 years ago
No feminism here. Women (3) doing the “women’s work” and the men doing the farming.
psychlady over 12 years ago
Not how I’d want to spend my vacation!
thirdguy over 12 years ago
That was kind of rude Grandma!
prrdh over 12 years ago
From the Talking Blues, as sung by Woody Guhtrie:
Down in the hen house on my knees,I thought I heard a chicken sneeze,But it was only the rooster sayin’ his prayersThankin’ the Lord for the hens upstairs.Rooster prayin’, hens a-layin’,Pore little pullets just pluggin’ away best they know how.
AnonaMoaner over 12 years ago
Poor old rooster, though! Just acting on his instincts, after all.
iced tea over 12 years ago
I lived in the upstairs of a farmhouse when I was small. In the yard was a mean, nasty rooster I was scared to death of. I told my older brother about it and he said he’d do something about it. One night we were all eating chicken for supper. My brother, being a big tease, said: “Remember that mean rooster. Will, I killed him-and now we’re eating him.”
;)
rcerinys701 over 12 years ago
Sounds like you had a hawk in the area.
Llywus over 12 years ago
I wonder when “Lizzie” will become “Lizard Breath”. Probably sometime shortly after Micheal’s 9th birthday.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
When we visited my folks, I’d send Daryn out to the hen house to gather the eggs. Once, he reached under one to get an egg and got pecked on the arm.He came back in the house – “That chicken bit me!!”
hippogriff over 12 years ago
hausof7mau: Not likely. A hawk can’t carry away a grown chicken but would eat it there or drag it a short distance, leaving visible remains. Pigs are a likely suspect or something in order Carnivora, if there are any in that part of Canada.
Gretchen's Mom over 12 years ago
That poor rooster!!!!! :-(
mountaingreenery. over 12 years ago
I agree, why did they just accept all of the chickens vanishing. It is an odd and sad story for Lynn to share.
frogsandravens over 12 years ago
So… ONE guy treats you badly, and you decide that every other person in the world who is Jewish is just as bad? Merely because they’re Jewish?
shakes head