It seems that the girls only have one mission this summer.  It’s to get on the decks and eat my herbs that I have been painstakingly growing there.   To aid in the survival of the herbs and to keep me from having to clean chicken pop off of the deck every time I turn around, I have fenced them out with construction fencing.  That’s right we are just that classy, lol.  So far it has worked keeping them at bay but I know it is only a matter of time.

Really, if there is a place you don’t want the girls to be, well that is exactly where they wish to be 24/7.

Here is the cast of characters for their mission:

Sophie the General.  She may look very sweet, but she is crafty.  If her minions get out of line, the least little bit, she pecks them on the head so they shape up.  She is the mastermind.   Don’t let that sweet face and her sweet bip, bip, bip sound that she makes fool you.

This is Sophie and Lily casing the place.  I know they look all innocent, but they are really up to something.

Buffy, second in command.  She is checking to see if I am watching.  Yep, I’m  still here drinking my coffee.  Doesn’t Shultz from Hogan’s Hero’s come to mind some how?  I know NOTHING. . . .   Oh, now I’m telling my age a bit.

Buffy calls one of the minions, Red, over to preen and try to distract me.  Yeah, that’s not going to work.

I see Goldie and Fern whispering to each other in secret. Oops, she caught us.

They try to throw me off and send the bearded girl in to see if I’m still watching.  This is Bunny, she has a muff which looks like a beard, lol.  Yep, I’m still here drinking my coffee.. . . .

They give up for now.  I just know they will figure a way in.  It’s just a matter of time.

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Now, I bet you are wondering why on earth does a person go through all this trouble of raising chickens.  Well it’s for the yummy fresh eggs.

I did have a problem though.  I couldn’t figure out how to boil fresh eggs and peel the shell off without the egg tearing up.  I would put my fresh eggs in the back of the frig for a couple of weeks to let them get old so they would peel correctly.  Well that just defeats the purpose of having fresh eggs so I went on my own mission to search the internet to find a better solution.  This is what I found.  YOU STEAM THEM!

Times will vary depending on your steamer.  I steam mine in my steamer for 30 minutes.  The clock starts ticking the minute I put them in the steamer.

When they are done steaming I plunge them into ice water and then peel them.

The shell comes right off and they are cooked to perfection.  🙂

Well I hope all of this made you smile a bit.  I’m off to check for tunnels.

Until my next post. . . . . . .  .

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