A New Day

Daily Hen report:
Today our hens had a meeting and we decided to go on with things as usual and mourn no more. I decided to do that by sitting on 3 freshly laid eggs as I had always sat on Mary's after she laid them! I was accused of eating them, in which I will never tell!!! I will also continue to sit upon eggs until I am too old to get up into the next or I am to fat to fit, which ever comes first. The Mrs. caught me again and quietly took the eggs out from under me and let me still sit and think!
The editor (the Mrs) found out I has spelled especially wrong in my last post, and it should have been Eggspecially! I hope she does not terminate me from my report position for that mistake!
Thought for the day in honor of Mary: Eat the ripe tomatoes now b/c you may not be there to enjoy them tomorrow!

Red Tomatoes

My good best friend, Mary, expired last night. I have been by her side most of my life and expecially the last week. The Mrs. tried her best to cure what ailed Mary, but she must have been pretty far gone when she realized Mary was not doing well.
I learned a lot from Mary and will miss how she taught us to look for the brightest spot a day could bring, red tomatoes! I'm going to try to like red tomatoes!

My do days go fast when you are having fun. I have watched the babies grow and now can you believe it, Princess's Sister, Jin is now an official setting hen! You know this generation of hens are not what we were like. While I'm talking about this, Mary, the other Queen of the hen house (Moi is the first queenie) has decided that she wants to be a mommy also...so she's sitting too. I heard the Mrs. talk about these teens wanting to have babies just to have babies, well that word must have gotten around in the hen house....everyone is wanting to set or sit, oh, my what is it! .. I think I need to do an article on this in the Henhouse daily newspaper! They will disagree with me, but it's true! Today the Mrs. found April on a nest...she came to live with us and her sister, Mae in May. The Mrs. went back and there it was...a tiny green egg...It is so small the egg market probably could not rate it as a small, but an extra small. The longer hens lay the bigger eggs they give....So officially we have 10 laying hens, but those darn girls are "laying" off work to set so we don't really have that many a day. With the hot weather we are getting about 3-6 a day. That won't keep feed in our craw if the Mrs. were to sell them. I hear that she just gives them away and her daughter is her best customer. That husband of her daughter eats 3 eggs every day and that will keep 3 of our hens busy every morning to meet his needs.We gladly do it just for the Mrs. favorite
son-in-law! Her daughter does lots of cooking for other people so she really goes through those babies!!! whoops, I mean those non-fertile eggs we produce. Speaking of babies, the Mrs. has a baby at her house. Bryan and Li Weaver are staying with her and their daughter Sarah and their baby who is 15 months old. So far I have not heard much about their stay but that Madilynn is keeping Elizabeth for them some of the time. The Mrs. husband left for NY for a mission trip. I told the girls what a mission trip was and they could not believe people would do that just for this God who loves them. They are working in two churches in NYC. They pulled off in this big coach that was loaded with people and will return on Saturday. They are doing a family trip and teaching two day camps and upward basketball. I wonder if they could use some hens next year! I have heard the Mrs.husband say they had enough old hens so guess they could use some of the younger ones from the hen house! Well, must go before I get the Mr. in trouble!....just writing what I have heard...you know Elaine and Debbie are no spring chicks!