Isn't it amazing, the things you can get in the mail these days? These guys showed up at the local post office on Monday, which happened to be a holiday. Fortunately, someone was there working in the back, and they called my friends Deb and Nick to come get their package. When I said "Oh, wasn't that sweet of her!", Deb replied "Heck, she was probably desperate. You should have heard the racket that was coming out of this box when we picked it up!"
Deb ordered a grab-bag assortment, and they came packed in that tiny little white carton you see here (not sure why that photo turned red - guess I got too close to the warming lamp), along with some green gelatinous goo that nourished them while in transit. Deb and Nick were fairly nonchalant over the fact that one has already died, and another was iffy, saying "That's just the way it is - you're always going to lose a couple." Make that reason #2, right after egg-snatching snakes, why I've decided to leave this endeavor up to my friends.
The good news is, the Muses have another creative project ahead of them! Deb has dubbed her chicken coop Le Palais de Poulet, and we get to help her transform it into a palace worthy of its name. I promise to post pictures, if and when we get it completed (our list of projects is fairly lengthy).
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Friends with laying hens are always nice to have! I used to buy beautiful acuna eggs - the colored eggs Martha Stewart is so fond of - from a family down the street. When we moved back, after being gone about 5 years, theirs was the first door I knocked on. Unfortunately, they had lost their entire flock to a hard freeze the previous winter. Sigh. Back to HEB.
I always loved those gorgeous blue and green eggs Martha used on her show!
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