As others have said, it is just a variation in that hen's "paint factory". I love to get eggs that are a little different as it makes it easy to tell who is laying.
Despite the saying "egg laying machines", chickens are not laying machines! They lay on a cycle which varies from hen to hen, with the occasional hen laying on a 24 hour cycle but most laying on a cycle that is a little longer than that. Egg laying breeds (as opposed to meat or ornamental) typically lay on a 26-28 hour cycle. So, for example, they will lay at 9am Mon, 11am Tue, 1pm Wed, 3pm Thur, take Friday off and start again as early as 7am the following day. Obviously that is a theoretical cycle since there are all kinds of variations to that and also a number of factors that may work to vary the cycle in any given hen.Mine skipped a day laying too. Is that common? She didn't lay Friday but we had one waiting at 6 a.m. on the floor of the coop Saturday morning.
I raise mostly heritage birds and they lay on a longer cycle meaning I'll get 3-4 eggs per week from them. The thing to understand though is that hens are born with all the eggs they'll ever lay. The production layers might lay 6-7 eggs a week but all that means is that they will run out of eggs in a shorter time than a bird who lays less often. Most production layers are spent after two seasons and in their third year, laying will slow down dramatically, whereas a heritage bird will still be laying those 3-4 eggs a week in their fourth season.
Danz, sorry to hear about your frustration with your garden. It seems it is always something, isn't it? I had 5 frustrating years before this year, with each one challenging me whether it was drought, rain, bugs, or early frost. For some reason this year everything has come together and the garden has been the most successful I've ever had. DH and I harvested several more buckets of tomatoes yesterday, leading him to say "Next year, plant fewer tomatoes" but I had to point out that as soon as I do that, it will be a bad year for growing tomatoes and I won't have near enough. I'd rather have a glut - especially on something like tomatoes that I can preserve - than not have enough. I spent this morning chopping tomatoes, hot peppers (harvested 50 yesterday) and onions from the garden and they are simmering in two stock pots now, to reduce them for pasta sauce. I didn't peel them as the first batch of sauce I made, I left the skins on, and we've already sampled it and by the time it was pureed, you can't even tell so I'm glad I didn't take the time and hassle of doing that. This batch I am doing something different though and if it works, I'll do it this way every time. Last time I followed various recipes from canning books that all suggested sautéing the onions/peppers, chopping the tomatoes, cooking, then pureeing, then simmering until they've reduced. Well, that wound up being a lot of mess and hassle, transferring by batch from pot to food processor and back to pot. So this time I pureed everything raw and THEN put it in the stock pots to simmer. So the veggies are cooking while they are simmering and reducing and all I have to do now is wait for them to have reduced enough to put in the jars and can. We'll see how well it works but so far I'm liking this method a lot more.
My little chick that went for a swim in my coffee the other day seems to be none the worse for wear from the experience. She was joined by two more chicks the next day so I gave them to a broody hen who was thrilled to accept them. That was on Friday night. Yesterday morning I sat down with a cup of coffee but heard "cheep-cheep-cheep" and jumped up so fast I almost spilled ANOTHER cup on my bed. I must admit I was kind of cussing "Oh for pete's sake" as I ran into the incubator room to investigate. Yep - another chick was entering the world. Darn my poor record-keeping and having no idea when they are due! I had to turn the turner off again and wait for it to hatch, then tried to immediately give it to the hen but she wouldn't have a bar of it. I got the last laugh though, as I just waited until dark and slid it under her, and this morning she is very protective of all 4 chicks.
I *think* I have a day or two until the next chicks are due to hatch. It looks like there will be 5 more which I will split between the last two broody hens and then hopefully I will be done for the year.
I must be the odd one as I went to a Ren Fair 7-8 years ago and did not care for it at all. It seemed very forced or fake to me and I just could not get into it. Not to mention that it was really expensive, both for the entry fee and then once you were in, everything inside was expensive as well. I haven't been to one since.
Oh and Danz, good call on NOT getting a pony for your granddaughter. Its not just the expense - horses are a lot of work. If there's a way they can injure themselves, you can bet they'll find it, and they are also prone to colic or get foot injuries that not only need doctoring but render them unrideable. Plus there is the maintenance of buying and storing hay, getting feet trimmed regularly, sticking to a worming and vaccination schedule, and feeding. Ponies in particular end up being a mistake for most people, who get them thinking they'll be easier to handle because they're smaller than horses. In reality, ponies are often very naughty because people don't take them seriously, and are very capable of hurting a small child by biting, kicking, stepping on them or running them down in their terror to get away from the plastic bag that just blew past them and might be about to eat them.
I'm hoping to swap work with someone for riding lessons before I take the plunge to get a horse. I've been dreaming about horses since I was knee high to a grasshopper and I'm determined to live the dream at some point!! 
