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When you realize that your flock and your gardens give you a front row seat to enjoying the miraculous creation in your own back yard. B/C if you didn't have a flock or garden, you'd probably not be out at 0:dark 30 to enjoy the splendor of it all. I thank God for the joy of it all, even when...

When you bring the watermelon rind back from church, and freeze it so it can be doled out on hot days.

When you save the shrimp shells, and snip them up with scissors before giving them to the birds. When you give your hubby the daily egg tally, and he "at least" pretends to care. When you have a separate egg carton in the fridge just for "family eggs". The other stacks of full cartons in...

When you enjoy a rainy day b/c: The garden needs it. AND You get to watch the chickens grazing the lawn for the bounty of worms. When you enjoy it when hubby mows the lawn, not b/c it makes the lawn look good but: b/c the garden needs the grass clippings for mulch. AND The chicken coop/run...

When you tell hubby that he needs to take eggs to his co workers tomorrow so there will be room for people food in the fridge.

When you pause every time you open the back door: to listen to the wild birds. Are all the wild birds content, or is someone making an alarm call? When you scan the sky and listen for the "scree" of the many hawks that prowl overhead. Then, you listen to your own flock, to determine if they...

When you tell your friend: "I need to get rid of some hens so I can hatch some eggs." And she totally understands.

When you show up at church, and the first few people greet you with this statement: "You got eggs today???"

When you go to the Salvation Army Store. And you see lots of stuff that you could use: Styrofoam coolers. Perfect dimension for incubators. Old curling irons. She wonders if the curling iron thermostat could be bypassed, and hooked up to a digital thermostat to use as an incubator heater...

Oh, how I'd love to have a mud room. Hubby says if we ever build again, I will have a gardening kitchen for all of my garden/chicken/and sprouting projects. I will also need a barn and a shop for MY TOOLS. And a potting shed. Of course, I'll need a big shed so I can store my kubota.

When your friends/family ask you how many chickens you have, and you really can't answer. When you go shopping at the town mall (aka town dump) and you see "stuff" that you really want to bring home. But you have no idea what you would ever use it for... you just know that it would be handy...

When your dog sits in front of you giving you the worshipful puppy dog face, then she lifts her paw to shake, lays down, and speaks... all the whole time, you continue cutting up old pepperoni pizza, old salad... and have to explain to her that these treats are for the girls, and pup can't have...

When you have to wash your jacket and your gloves often because.... well... chickens.

Don't ask, don't tell.

When your grand daughter, and the neighbor's grand daughter sneak a little blue egg off your kitchen counter, and take it to the neighbor's house and hide it under the bed so the neighbor's grand daughter can hatch it, cause she wants a pet chicken.

When you are outside, in your jammies, in the middle of the night with a flash light, trying to figure out what the odd sounding creatures are in the trees around your coop... because they wouldn't be there if they didn't want a chicken dinner. When you go out the next day and buy a 18V...

Cap is making something for her chickens in her work shop. I just know she is. Perhaps she's even working on a MHP frame for her spring chicks. If only I'd bought Sunbeam stock before the MHP craze took off.

Just tell them that you never hatch rooster eggs. That way you get more pullets.

15* is a heat wave.

My birds like Christian music. They don't care that I can't carry a tune in an egg basket. I may not be able to carry a tune, but I can make a joyful noise.