Chicken Update

Remember these guys?? Well they're still alive! YAAAY. Despite getting out of the pen, being chased by grizzly bear (our dog), and stalked by Kitty (our cat), and having to be caught by me and scott numorous times..

Look how big they're getting! So fun...They're like mini chickens!

So the count is down to 11....from 12....only lost one as a chick so not too bad! I'm not sure when they will be laying eggs...but at least we know we can get them this far! We wanted to start from chicks to see what it was like because we'd like to get meat hens next year. THAT should make for some fun blog posts....maybe not for the weak at heart I guess :) I'll try and keep the documentary as clean as possible.....for the children who view this blog! :)

My Crazy Chicken anology

I'll tell you the story I told my YW the other week....One Sunday, i went out to feed the chickens and two had gotten out. I'm not a very good chicken catcher, so i chased the chickens around and around and around the pen to no avail. Then i decided to try and sneak up on the chickens. SO i snuck up to the chickens...around and around and around the pen. That wasn't working so i decided to TRAP them. SO i invented a barracade and trapped one and was able to grab her and throw her back over the fence. The OTHER one however, was insane...flapping like crazy, squawking like crazy...just BESIDE herself NOT wanting to get help....All the while almost killing herself trying to run THROUGH the chicken-wire fence to get into the pen. SO I thought on my way to church....hmm.....ya know.....*I* am kind of like the crazy chicken sometimes. I WANT to go in the right place...sometimes i go crazy and almost kill myself trying to do the right things when REALLY i just need to CHILL out and let the Lord help me out. I try and do things on my own alot and end up pretty much like the crazy chicken, when really He's trying to help me all along. SOO my lesson from the chicken was to try and just chill out and let myself be guided more often.

I thought it was a pretty genious anology. I love analogies....I should write a book of them, though they'd probly only make sense to ME :) But that's ok. Hope someone out there can relate to being a crazy chicken like me!