POOP AND BEAUTY

Sunday night Lynn decided he needed to move on and do other things with his life, so we are down two hands... just in time to clean out the soggy coops yesterday. The first coops Renee built are not open on the bottom and therefore, when it rains, they become bogged down with wood mulch and tons of chicken poop. Let me assure you, you have never smelled such a horrific stench. Gag-worthy, to say the least. The two of us did manage to get them all scooped, sprayed down, and re-mulched though - just in time for the next rain. Haha. Today, with the help of Renee's friend Steve, we moved a new coop (open bottom, one of the ones I built) down to the pasture and so there is one less gross coop to clean.

That was the quick poop update portion of this post. The beauty part is a little more exciting to think about. Out here in the panhandle of Florida I am surrounded by so much beauty...(makes me think of the Weepies song with that name, "all this beauty, you might have to close your eyes, and slowly open wide...") The horses next door galloping, the incredible sunsets lighting up the fields and ponds of water, the green lizard I have made friends with upstairs, and the eggs. I am becoming more in awe everyday of how incredible the eggs are. First of all, the shells (brown from the Dominic and Rhode Island Reds and white from the Leghorns) are stunning. Some are spotted, some are light, some dark, the white ones are pristine. And then the intense red-orange of the yolks. Sometimes, even though I see first hand where they come from, I think they have been dyed. **Fun egg sidenote: our lesbians hens lay the BIGGEST eggs I have ever seen. They look like goose eggs... pictures coming soon.

Tomorrow I get to help Renee deliver a batch of eggs. That will be fun to see exactly where the eggs actually end up:) I'll be sure to let you all know how that adventure away from the farm goes...