Reading harold_maude's journal

About a week ago the lone chicken we have here made an attempt to take a trip and see something more than farm life.
It got up into the back end of the truck that belongs to one of the guys here and hid out.

Since this chicken is a free ranger, and is not kept in a pen or barn, the fact that it goes somewhere sometimes and we can't find it, made what happened possible.

I think sometimes the chicken goes into the trees and plots the take over of the farm. It's a tough little bird and will take on any cat or dog for that matter when food is up for grabs.

Anyway, the chicken, which was now hiding out, ended up being taken to work. When Mic, the guy who owns the truck, got to work, he didn't notice the extra passanger.

He works at the local harley shop, so that's where the chicken ended up. She wasn't taken notice of until someone who stopped to buy parts saw something strange running around between the bikes and cars.

I'm not sure if they chased her inside the shop, but Mic's dog oreo, got wind of the chicken and decited to go do some investigation.

I'm sure the chicken was intent in contuing her adventure, but ended up being captured and securly locked up in the back of the truck in a box.

A couple of days later, the chicken, now a traveler of sorts, decited that she wanted to escape again.
She hid out again in the back of Mic's truck and ended up going several hours down south of here.
I think she's got itchy feet or feathers.

Again she was discovered and made the trip back ok. I haven't seen her for a couple of days. I wonder if she escaped again or is just hiding out plotting again.

She's a pretty strange bird, but then everything out here is pretty strange so her taking off didn't really surprise me.
We had possums that were so laid back that they were hanging out with the other chickens, when we had them, and the cats and never bothered any of them.
From what I've been told about possums, that's not normal for a possum to not be agressive.
This farm seems to have that effect on both animals and people who come here.
We had a rooster named Betty who would kung foo certian people and why no one ever figured out.
Some people he was ok with, and he never beat any of the cats up but there were some people he would kung foo.
I think some wandering animal got him and the rest of the chickens except our traveling chicken.

We've watched the chicken and she thinks she's a cat. I've seen her laying on her side grooming her feathers, like a cat does when it's sunning itself. I've also seen her rolling in the dirt like a cat does. I know she has seen oreo get up into the truck, and this chicken being who she is followed suit.

She is one weird bird. We haven't named her yet, but several ideas have come up, like betty too, and super cat, and dog, all of which I'm sure she would take too.
Oh yeah, on occasion when we call kitty kitty, she's the first one to show up.

I hope she hasn't gone somewhere, I would really miss her. She's such a strange catbird.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.