Chickens? What the...

In the past few years we've had chickens, I've learned a lot about them.

• They're not very smart, but are incredibly paranoid. 
• They can surprise you - like when Thalia flies up to the kitchen window, or wanders through an open back door looking for me.
• And they never cease to surprise me.

During the summer, the Americaunas stopped producing...they hit the end of their laying years. I think my cousin, Karen, got the last blue egg. Kelly calls them "retired." I say they're "free loaders." Then today another surprise. Among the white and brown eggs, was an oddly shaped blue one. And with it, a very small - humming bird-like - brown egg. 

Chickens, seriously, what the...