Open Letter To Bill

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The Blog has received a new letter from the chickens - addressed to Bill. At this time I am unable to trace the origins of the letter, but it does have all the earmarks of an authentic chicken letter. Please read on...

Dear Bill,

We have been on an egg-cellent adventure! Since we flew the coop in December we have traveled the world and met many wonderful people. We have brought you some of the souvenirs we collected in our suitcase.

Since we hatched this plan it has been enlightening. There are many places warmer than Edmonton but when we were here our nuggets got cold. We have decided to return to the roost and reacquaint ourselves with you. Please keep us safe. We are looking forward to the security of your drawer or your briefcase and don’t want to attend any more social functions for a while. We need to rest and refresh!

Your free range chickens have come home to roost. Thank you for being so patient with our teenage rebellion.

Hope you can read our chicken scratch!!

By bringing this news to light I am hoping to win a Pullet-zer Prize! But enough about me - it sure sounds like the chickens are headed back home!

More news as it comes in!

Cheerio!

Globetrotting Poltroons - Part Deux

Hidey-Ho Fowl Feathered Friends,

Previously on "The Great Escape" one of our capon crusaders was last seen at the top of Mount Merapi just outside Yogjakarta.

Chicken also visited a Stupa, a Buddhist shrine, seen below:

After that difficult early-morning climb up the volcano, Mount Merapi, our little buddy needed to rest up a bit by taking a dip in the pool:

Then - within sight of the recently conquered peak - chicken was able to relax out on the patio.

Chicken decided to get out and enjoy the action out on the beach - by catching a few waves and then a few rays. No word on the SPF level of his sunscreen - but I think we can all agree that we wouldn't want a roasted rubber chicken!

Looking forward to another post real soon! Hugs and Pecks to all our fans!

Globetrotting Poltroons

My friends,
the escapees have been sighted and we have photographic evidence of same!

Here we have a chicken about to fly the coop: in the executive lounge at LAX Airport!


And here we have the exhausted chick at the top of Mount Merapi just outside Yogjakarta, climbing (see how he needs a helping hand just to sit up - so sad). RC sure was tired - he had to get up at 1 AM to meet his guide to hike 5 KM up Mount Merapi just outside Yogjakarta.

While his night vision is good, hiking through the jungle in the dark is tough expecially in the rainy season as the trails are wet and slippery - that is if you can see them. And the tigers and snakes tend to look for chickens. RC re-evaluated the safety of Bill's bags and his brief outings at orientations, staff functions.

More to come - soon!

Regards,

the Chicks

At the "INTERNATIONAL" Airport

This posting is from our roving reporter in the field:

Hello to you all, friend and fowl! I am egg-cited to be coming to you LIVE from the INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT! The terminal is a-flutter with a collection of corpulent commuters, all of whom are waiting to be cooped up in a long metal tube. There are also a gaggle of grateful gadabouts and globetrotters who have safely arrived at their destination (and I am one of them)!

Here I am chicking out the excitement of the INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. This was incredibly egg-citing what with all the comings and goings!

The airport was a very busy place! As you can tell from this picture people were rushing hither and yon, and it was nigh on impossible to snap a photo without someone getting in the way!

Stay tuned over the next week as my (rubber) feathered friends and I travel the world in search of fun!

Let me take this time to wish every one out there a safe and Happy Holidays!

The Chicks

Chickie does Edmonton - Part I

Dear Bill,

Well have I found a treasure, did you know that a place like this existed in Edmonton!!

Not to say that we have not appreciated the care and attention you have bestowed upon us in the past, taking us to ALL your speaking functions, introducing us to all your new friends… but Bill this has been truly eye-opening. Have you ever seen goose bumps on rubber… ohhhh!
I was having flashbacks to my childhood as the warm glow of the sun shone in, the plants surrounded me, and my liberators told me stories of other such wonders here in Edmonton.

There is so much to do, so many places to see, we will have to Chick-it-out!

A Week of Chickens On The Run

We Chicks have had an eventful week, and wanted to update everyone! But first, a little something fun! We Chicks wholly endorse the following Christmas Carol:
http://www.fullervoice.com/cluck/play.html

Our Blog posting has received an email response (in reference to our photo from the first posting) from Bill:

…you swine chicken! Mooove off of that leather furniture! We’ve got a beef with your complicit use of the former Holly the Holstein just because you want to kick back. Stand near me and I’ll kick you back! How dairy do that? Angus Hereford from Ayrshire, President-Elect, Bovines Against Winged Liberators (BAWL)…

We emailed Bill, but we're not sure he received the note, so here it is:

Hi Bill,

Well, now I'm with my own kind...none of the chickens here
have feathers either! I really like it here, I might make this a permanent move.
I've attached a recent photo. Hope you are well.

Affectionately yours,

One of the Flock

Free at last, free at last!

5:10 PM
Edmonton, Alberta

I just wanted everyone out there who has been concerned for our welfare to know we are all in eggs-ellent condition. As you can see by the photo to the left, I am currently kicking back and relaxing.

My rubber-feathered friends and I have managed to make a break for it! You may think we're cracked, but we just needed to be free!

This blog is to keep everyone up to date with our activities, and as I am at the top of the pecking order it was up to me to post the first blog.

This was not a spur of the moment action -- this was a fully incubated idea! We were partying at this year's RSO/REO SnowBall when we noticed the whole wide world beyond the Faculty Club windows - and realized that we needed to be free to explore that world. We just don't want anyone to worry, and we don't want anyone to run a-fowl of the law.

Below is a record of the email correspondence that took place from Bill to RSO, and between our liberators and Bill, after we became free range.

Dear Colleagues: Foreshadowing likely dire future consequences, rustlers appear to have made off with the entire flock of chickens from Snow Ball 3 (truly poultry in motion). Given that fowl play is suspected, the RCMP are now on the case (that's the Riotous Constabulary for Missing Poultry) and the culprits are bound to be brought to justice. Either that, or the swine chickens will turn up in some foreign jurisdiction pleading for asylum because of political persecution (they wanted Morton) in the RSO/REO. If you have any information regarding this alleged crime, please ignore it -- I'll chick out all leads. What I really need is a capon crusader! Please stay tuned... Inspector Wattle, Pullet Security Services.

P.S. Thanks to all for a great Snow Ball 3!!!

And then to Bill:

Dear
Bill,

We're fine. Our
new friends are taking very good care of us. We consider them liberators not abductors. Rubber chickens just need to be free. We thought about this for a long time, we deliberated, we brooded...but now we know eggs-actly what we want. We have been cooped up for far too long and now we have an eggs-ellent opportunity to see the world! Call off your hounds, we're not coming home to another mindless round of seasonal festivities...there's more to life than a dusty briefcase or a desk drawer.

Don't cry for us, we'll keep in touch.

Affectionately yours,
The Flock

And here is Bill's reply:

...are you the Poultry Liberation Organization (PLO)? I can't call off the "RCMP" but seeing the Globe & Mail headline today may suggest that they'll be distracted for a while -- so enjoy your freedom while you can...

Please stay tuned for further developments.