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I love the library but truthfully I haven't been going much lately.  Lately I have only wanted one book to just read before bed or during naptime at the day care.  I have also only wanted one video.  That being some sort of sitcom to have on while I am working in the kitchen.  I admit, when I saw that the library was getting The Wiz, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, I got a little excited.  I watched it growing up and still have certain scenes permanently engraved in my mind and some of the songs!!  Ease on down ease on down the road!  I think I might have mentioned The New Bohemians interior book on a previous list but I'm still waiting on it.  And I am hoping the either The Marriage of Opposites or A Window Opens will keep me captivated long enough to finish them.  I loved the last book I read, Bloodroot by Amy Greene, but the second book I got of hers, Long Man, I can't get into for some reason.  I find myself wondering if it can really last that long and just want to know if the chick and her kid in the town leave before they block off the water to the new dam and flood the town.  I have skipped forward I admit. 

 

I also admit that I have taken bike riding back up.  Please don't get an image of me in your head in spandex on some expensive bike blocking half of a lane of back roads getting in the way of passing cars.  I just truck around the shop.  I've gotten quite good at dodging the camper, trucks, stray motors and air hoses and can get pretty good speed up if I've got the right music in my ears.  I think Shaun likes the company and sometimes when he drops a tool while working on his trucks I'll just glide over, scoop it up and hand it to him and be on my merry way while we can still chat yet I'm really not in the way.  Plus I get a little exercise.  I bet I rode that bike for two hours last Sunday... maybe more.  Here's a picture of me on the Vista Sophisticate.  That's when we went camping last year.  I love the last picture of Shaun with Katie Bug in that post when it was raining and we had to stay inside for a while that morning.

 

 

 

A Bike Riding Chicken??

Yep you heard correctly.  I thought I'd share a bit about my friend Pepper which is one of our chickens who is named after my late thirteen year old dog Pepper Jean.  No, I don't think it odd one bit that I have had two pets with the same name.  I like saying Pepper Jean.  And they are both pretty special animals!  In fact, not only is Pepper, the chicken, the ring leader of my egg layin' posse, she follows me around, sits in my lap and would probably sleep in the bed with me if I let her.  Yea... not gonna happen.

 

This past weekend, I taught her a new trick that would have probably landed me a good job at Opryland if it was still open.  At first I was just riding laps around the inside and front of the shop on my bicycle and when I was going through the door over and over, Pepper was just standing there watching me each time without moving.  I said to her"you're not scared of this bike a bit are you.... wanna ride?"  So I put a feed sack in the basket hoping she would just sit down in there... didn't work.  I coaxed her up the front wheel and onto the edge of the basket with a little white bread.  But she got nervous and jumped down when the bike started moving.  Me, not wanting to give up just yet, tried again this time placing Pepper Jean in the middle of my handle bars which are thicker than the basket.  I gave her a couple of bits of bread for a trick well done then started to move the bike.  She was facing me this time which made her feel more comfortable but she didn't even attempt to get down or show any signs of being nervous.  After a slow lap or two around the shop we stopped at the refrigerator for more bread and from then she rode the handle bars for a good fifteen minutes with only the flap of a wing for balance every now and then.  The other chickens craned their necks to see what was up with this circus trick their fellow hen had learned but showed little interest other than that.  I had fun never-the-less and Miss Pepper learned a new trick and I gained a new level of trust with my chicken friend!