Just call me Chicken Lady!!!

Hey friends, Happy Monday!!!  Is your day flying past you like mine is?  It's nuts, I wish my metabolism moved as quickly as the days move.....that would make so many things so much better!!!!  You know what I'm sayin' dontcha!!!!

So here's a monday tale for you, if your day hasn't brought you a hearty laugh or giggle, this just might!!!!  With hubby's new work schedule, he's up at 5 a.m. and out the door by 6:30 so that doesn't leave him the time to take care of the chickens and ducks before work.  So that means the responsibility has become mine, well actually not mine, but the boys, Joe and Jaysen.

Anyway, I went out this morning with our dog, Molly, so that she could do her thing.  I didn't grab shoes because I thought I'd just stand on the patio for a few moments and we'd be done.  Well I looked out towards the chicken coop and noticed that the gate was opened!!  Normally that would not be a problem, but since it's spring and we've already started planting our veggies (we already have asparagus and radishes up!!) I could not let those birds out of the coop!!!

All was fine, because they didn't even notice that the gate was open.  At least not until they saw me coming, to which they all ran to the gate to greet me!!! Nooooooooooooo!!!!!! Remember I'm bare footed and the grass is wet with dew and FREEZING COLD!!!  Those stinkin' little chickens, about 20 of them, took off out of the gate and I proceded to corral them all back into the gate, slipping in the mud and freezing my toes off!!!  What a sight I must have been!!!  At least I wasn't in my jammies, I was actually dressed!!! 

I am proud to say, that not one bird got a way or even got near the gardens!!! SUCCESSSSSS!!!!  It was a proud country mama moment for me!!!  Every once in a while I have one of those, usually followed by a "how in the world did I get here" thought!!  I never dreamed I'd be one day chasing chickens, my own chickens, whom I've named!!!  It's a crazy world friends!!!

So, how is your monday treating you?  Chase any fowl lately??  Yeah, I didn't think so : )

<3The Chicken Lady; Lorraine<3

p.s. the pictures were not taken today, as I don't usually plan on photodocumenting my morning routine, but perhaps I should!!

New Life

Hi friends, just wanted to share our eggciting news!!!!  On Tuesday, March 13th we welcomed 9 little new lives into our family!!!!!!

This is the second spring that we have incubated some of our eggs and it was just as eggciting this time as it was the first time!!  There is something about waiting the 21 days that it takes for these babies to begin the hatching process.  Then waiting, for hours possibly, as they work so hard to break their way through the shells and into this world.

We all watch with anticipation, eager to see the first pip in the shell.  Right as they are getting ready to hatch, you can even hear them chirping inside!! 

It's an amazing picture of the process that we all go through in life, we struggle to fight our way through the hard times, only to come out and find our place and our strength.  Like I said, it can sometimes take one chick hours to finally break through.  It's such exhausting work and as a mom, it's hard for me not to reach in and give them a little help.  But I can't do that, it would ruin the process for them.  They must go through the hard times to gain their strength.

I'd like to reach in and help my children get through their struggles.  Eventhough I am here to love, support and encourage them, I cannot save them from their trials.  They must be allowed to fight and work through their hard stuff.  For only after the fight, do we find our peace.  I am thankful for my Heavenly Father, who is there with them and us through every struggle and storm.  We learn to rely heavily on Him to see us through.  What a gift of true life!!


<3Lorraine