This illustration is my submission to this month's SCBWI's art word prompt..."adventure".
I spent the better part of my early years crawling around a barn floor chasing after pigs and chickens and cows. One of my favorite things to do was to hang out in the henhouse with my tape recorder. I would wait patiently for Abner, our rooster, to crow and when he finally did, I would tape him and play it back. Since roosters are territorial, Abner would go berserk and frantically run around trying to flush out the other rooster he had just heard. It provided hours of entertainment and at the time, I thought I was conducting "important behavioral scientific research" (Don't judge—farm life could be boring and I had to find (make!) my entertainment where I could). So it is totally reasonable for me to believe the animals could get equally bored with farm life, and find (make!) their own fun too.