Last weekend, Alex and I headed to Country Village in Bothell to check on our favorite chicken, Fluffy. Last year around this time, we ran into Fluffy as he was patrolling the grounds of the shopping center. As we came around the corner, we startled him to such an extent that he flew up into the air and landed in a large old Douglas Fir tree! (neither Alex nor I even knew that chickens could fly that far and high!). Anyway, we hung around the area for about an hour, trying to coax him down from the top of the tree, to no avail.
On a regular basis, we stop by on Sunday afternoons to check in on Fluffy. He looks as good as ever, none the worse for wear after his Big Adventure of 2009. Last Sunday, however, we scoured the grounds trying to find him. We checked all of his usual haunts, such as under the shrubs next to the Country Kitchen, and under the boardwalk in the middle of the square. NO Fluffy. However, we did run into two new characters (picture attached), and we were fascinated with the larger of these two friends.
He is a beautiful black-feathered fowl with large, white plumage on his head. In fact, the feathers are so wild that it gives this otherwise dignified-looking chicken a clownish appearance! He looked so funny that we just laughed at him. He seemed to like the attention, and we were able to get close enough to take this picture. His other little chicken friend stayed close by him, and they made a cute pair.
Alas, we had to leave Country Village that day without a glimpse of Fluffy, but we'll be back, and I know he'll be there waiting for us.
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