REBEL ROGUE ON THE RUN, CHICKEN RUN!

"SQUA-AWK!" the grandkids came!   Rebel Rogue had never seen them before!

Four of 'em.   

"Squa-awk!"  Run!  

Run, Rebel, run!

At crack of dawn, Rebel Rogue had happily pecked the ground and grass behind the log.  She wandered up onto the deck pacing in her backward knee bending style of walking.  

She watched and head-bobbed, bent and pecked, and watched again as the cat came onto the scene.

Then the grandkids came.  Immediately they discovered the new thing in the Roger Run, "A Chicken!" they squealed.

They ran!  Chicken ran!  

Miss Lilly didn't run.  She was afraid.  She backed into my skirts, body shivering, arms crossed over her chest, and eyes boring into that foreign feathered fowl watching as it moved across the yard to evade the others.  Until.  Until it went back under the tree and realized it was safe.  There Rebel stayed while the kids separated and did other play things.

They threw a blue Beanie Baby into the fork of a tree.   Jayden poked it with a stick to get it to fall down.  Miss Lilly climbed the tree to retrieve it. Then, they gathered on the stumpery with their sippy cups.  Alayna discovered her prowess using her body to connect a stump to the fence.  Noelle hid in the irises and behind the fir tree after dipping her hands into the little pond.  "Noelle, get out of there!"  

They plucked dandelions and made them into rings for fingers.
"GrammyPam, these are for you." said Jayden

And they made wands "This is my masterpiece," said Miss Lilly. 'Twas dandelions taped up and down a handsome stick 8 inches long.

With the four entertaining themselves, Rebel Rogue cautiously high-stepped it out from under spiky fir branches, head up, eye watching, checking for danger.  Deeming it safe, she began to peck some more.  

Last seen, before the night's storm came, she was high-stepping it from the yard stick the mistress of the house was wielding.  Mistress didn't appreciate all the evidence of a full-functioning fowl digestive system -- poop on deck.  

"Oh, crap!  RUN!"

"Run, CHICKEN, run!"

Yep, it's time for a chicken run!