OOOOOHHHHH i love this weather! then why am i inside?!? time for a cross-breeze, at least!
today, i am trying out a new bread recipe, courtesy of the SoNo baking company (thanks to D for giving me their cookbook!)...just waiting for the oven to heat up, then in the ol' loaf goes, and then in an hour or so, into my stomach she goes! interestingly, it uses all-purpose flour rather than bread flour. for some reason i didn't know that was possible, but apparently it is!
today's chicken poem is inspired by both those long-legged chicken felties and the pumpkin felties (fall! autumn! go! rock!) :) the other pictures are of: colleen's incredible ginger-bird-men, and a cake by whole foods. i keep looking for really awful cakes whenever i go into reasors or sams (or w.f.), in order to send photos to cakewrecks.com, one of the websites i check daily. but i haven't found anything truly memorably hideous yet. getting closer, though, i can tell.
alright, enjoy the weather, and here's the poem:
Chicken-scratch and chicken-feed
And chicken-by-the-pound
"It tastes like chick..." "Don't call me chicken!"
Chicken all-around.
So that's why Henrietta's head
Swelled thrice its natural size--
And now she wears a pumpkin shell
To keep herself disguised.
Oh, vanity! It saved her life
When Butcher came to call--
Cause he just saw a vegetable,
And no white meat at all.
As a random sidenote, we had a hen named Henrietta Louise (Henny Lou for short) when I was in high school. She was pretty awesome and Dad even let her in the house sometimes. She was the neighborhood pet until a fox ate her... sad times! If only your poem had been written then... ;)
ReplyDeleteoh,poor Henrietta Louise! i like the addition of the louise, and the adorable nickname :) what color was she? did she lay nice eggs?
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