Eagle Hawk

Some of the women stood on Sue's porch and watched as the men pounded and hollared and worked and had a good time raising Sue's new barn. Others were in the house cooking and baking food for all those hungry men, and the kids played in the yard with the chickens. The old pastor stood with the women and talked about scriptures and gave hope for a new prosperous year to come.

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Sue's barn was finished and even painted before winter sat in. It was the most beautiful barn in the county. She was proud of it and of her precious friends and neighbors. Now her kids could play in the barn and she would not have to worry quite as much. Of course, being a mom, she would always worry a bit.

And, she had a plaque erected on her beautiful new barn to signify the thing she loved most, next to her husband, Magic and her wonderful children.

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Sam, after sitting out in the tree during the barn raising, decided he kind of liked it out there and Sue's family would often find him pertched in a tree during that winter nights.

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Come Spring, Sam, the Barn Owl, was still pertchin' in that ole tree. Maybe he thought he could see things a little better out there. Sue had no idea if he had ever gone into the new barn since it had been built.

cjomomma

Eagle hawk you are doing a great job. I a lovin your part of the story as well as all the others.

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One morning Sue got up and thought she heard a strange new sound coming from outside. She stepped out onto the porch and was so surprised at what she saw that she could hardly contain herself. She ran back into the house and told the children to come a quickly and quietly at they could to see what was outside in Sam's tree.

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"It appears to me," Sue said softly to the kids, "that our sweet Sam is really a Samantha!" Since the babies did not appear to be newborns she guessed that Sam, or Samantha, Had been using the new barn all along, and probably kept her babies there till now. Now, she must have brought the babies out to the tree to see what real life was all about.

craftybear

Samantha loves sitting in the tree. She always keep a lookout for her babies. Emma and Peter enjoys watching the owls.

craftybear

Emma and Peter were outside playing and heard a noise. They went running back in the house to tell mommy something was making a loud noise outside and couldn't figure out where it was coming from.

Sue went outside and she pointed to the tree, look a woodpecker.

craftybear

Peter named the woodpecker "Red" since it had red on the head.

Peter is now learning his colors in school and is getting good reports.