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Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

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In everyday life with chickens, come eggs…
Brown eggs with nice thick shells
In everyday life, pondering on little things such as, faith.

What exactly is faith? 

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Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C . Carroll

In everyday life, thoughts can turn to the “dark side.”
Take us to the dark side, Dorothy Parker:

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard! 

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Everyday, how would you like your eggs done ? 

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Scrambled, sunny side up, over easy, poached or simply raw?
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If you are looking for fun and inspiration, why not hop over to the Weekly Photo Challenge: This week’s feature is>Everyday Life.<

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OH, Drats! This Summer HEAT WAVE took my Foxy Roxy!!

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“Heartbreak is LIFE educating us.” ~George Bernard Shaw

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Roxy, before her egg laying days…

Roxy lost her life yesterday. She was a foxy feathered friend who gave an egg a day, kept the bug population under control and was a constant companion to our one rooster. The cause of her death is unknown and being a very young chicken, age was not a factor. I suspect the extreme heat wave lingering over this land (with day temperatures brewing in the triple digits) may have been a factor. It is difficult to keep outside animals from heat related injuries and fatal mishaps during extreme heat temperatures. A regular, fine mist, water sprinkler throughout the day, I guess, was not enough to keep Roxy cooled down. I just do not know.

It was a sad day anyway, especially for her rooster companion. I also found myself tearing up just the thought of Roxy passing without anyone outside to help her.

I know Roxy was just a hen, and around here, hens are easy to come by, but somehow, have you noticed when you give a name to anything, it seems like the named item becomes the Velcro that sticks itself to your heart? Maybe next time I will cautiously give a name to anything that may strongly attach to my heart. Away with you, Velcro! Arrgh.

“Grief is so painfully real, regardless of its origin. The love of, and attachment to, an animal friend can equal that of human relationships. Likewise, the loss of an animal can be just as devastating.” ~Rev. Joel L. Morgan

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Have you ever named something and later found your heart grieving when their final time came sooner than expected?

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The Truth about Tomorrow…

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One thing I know to be true is that tomorrow morning the sun will rise and my rooster, Roose, will crow.

He does that.

Sometimes Roose doesn’t even wait for the sun. He’ll just crow, say around two, or three in the morning, or just about anytime he feels like crowing!

Could Roose be dreaming so he crows in his sleep? I just don’t know!

It’s strange to hear cock-a-doodle-doo at all hours of the day or night. Lucky for Roose, everyone can sleep through a major electrical storm around here or we would have had delicious chicken stew a long, long time ago!

Once Roose is up and about, his day resembles a retired Farmer. Check it out…

1. Roose jump off back porch railing and the retired Farmer rolls off the bed into his overalls.

2. Roose goes over to the dog water dish and drinks away the parched throat from crowing at all hours of the night while retired Farmer puts in his dentures and bifocals.

3. Roose takes steals a few dog food morsels for a morning snack and retired Farmer grabs a cup of black, hot coffee.

4. Breakfast! Roose cruises the back yard looking for tasty bugs and being late spring, early summer, bugs are happening! retired Farmer enjoys a bowl of corn flakes and milk.

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–McBug breakfast to go, please!!

4. Roose crows–retired Farmer yawns.

5. Roose runs on over to the chicken coop with one female chicken living in it  and says ‘hey!’

He believes she is his girlfriend and in the meantime, retired Farmer goes and visits all his retired neighbors to ‘shoot the breeze,’ as they say.

6. And the rest of the day goes on like the above and no sooner, it’s time for bed…

7. Sun goes down and so do Roose and retired Farmer.

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Good night, Y’all!

I know one thing true about tomorrow is that it will be a new and wonderful day, if we plan it like Roose and retired Farmer.

What is one thing you know to be true about tomorrow?