The First Eggs, Sort Of

Two of our good friends from Childress, Texas came Tuesday and left this morning. We so enjoyed them being here.

Rickey decided Marc was not talking to his ladies (the hens) in a way that would produce eggs. He and Parker decided to plant some eggs in the hen house as a joke on Marc. They bought 21 eggs and put them in the hen house. They did this yesterday afternoon during nap time, thinking they would be gone before Marc found them today. I had knowledge of this little escapade.

No one had much homework yesterday so we were all outside. When all of a sudden there rose such a clatter. Dennis, the groundskeeper, came running toward us yelling "huevos, huevos." His hair was standing one end. All the children were squealing. They all turned and ran toward the hen house. The whole scene was pretty amusing. A couple of the kids went running in the house to get something in which to gather the eggs. Even Sandra and Pamela went running down there.

I told Dorian it was a joke. A joke on Marc. Dorian was laughing so hard. He jumped up and ran to the window in the playroom to watch all that was unfolding. I was outside near the window and I looked at window where Dorian was standing and said look how white and big they are for first eggs.

I called Marc and said "I need you up here, right now." I tried to say it in a way that make him come running. The kids had all 21 eggs gathered and were running down to show Marc. When they met, all the kids were talking at once.

Marc looked at me. I am sure I did not have a poker face. Marc said if it had been two or three eggs, he might have bought it. After the dump day, nothing is impossible, but for 21 of 30 chickens to all lay their first egg on the same day. Not likely.

The joke turned out not to be on Marc, but the trusting little children.

Maryuri and Reina sat down by the henhouse until shower time watching, waiting for another egg to drop. Ana went to feed the chicken this morning and came walking in sadly saying, "no more eggs this morning."

No one is telling them it was a joke. We are just hoping those hens start laying eggs soon.

Like I always say, there is never a dull moment around here.

Terri