Funky Chicken

FUNKY CHICKENS

OK~~~SO SHE'S NOT PRETTY, but how can you not smile when you see such a thing?! 
                      Maybe that's what it's all about?

I can remember when my husband first suggested we get some chickens.  Let's just say that I wasn't crazy about the idea!  I really wasn't!  So we didn't.  A few years later, as I was pulling into the driveway after a weekend at work in Billings, I saw a strange sight.  My husband was out on a ladder and there was an appendage happening on the back side of the horse shed.  "What?  Could it be that he was building a little storage shed for all of my Rubbermaid tubs full of stuff?  Oh~~maybe he is adding a place for all of those tools in the garage?  The lawn mower?"  All kinds of things ran through my head.  "I rolled down my car window and shouted out, "Hey!  Whatcha doin'?"  The look on his face was nothing but pure glee.  "Park the car!  I've got something to show you!"  Hmmmmmm.  I felt uneasy at this point~~~but that look on his face......

I slowly emerged from the car, not sure what I was in for.  "What are you doing?" ~  He was dancing around like a child  with a big secret that just can't be contained. "Come 'ere! You gotta see this!"

We headed in the direction of the garage, and again, that uneasy feeling came back, and I was thinking, "Oh, I hope he didn't buy a 4-wheeler or something~~~or a motorcycle~~~NOT A MOTORCYCLE!"

We entered the garage, and a funny smell was in the air~~~and a noise~~~WHAT WAS THAT NOISE?  It was like a distant little squeak~~~no wait~~~there were squeak(s)~~~plural!  Over in the corner was a circle of light.
  (Sounds almost heavenly doesn't it?!  A circle of light? )
Under that light was a little pen full of fuzzy little peeps.  OH NO!  NOT CHICKENS!  As I turned, (not in a happy way, I might add) to ask why, what, how~~I suddenly halted my frustration.  Scott was beaming like a proud daddy, gazing down at his little babes.  He looked SO HAPPY! 

He said, "they came in the mail just this morning! There wasn't a single dead one in the bunch!  Isn't it cool that they can mail these things?!"  I was just trying to grasp the fact that he actually had planned this little "surprise" ahead of time without my knowing it~~~let alone the fact that it was SO COOL that they came in the mail!  I just stood there dumbfounded and speechless.  I mean, there were CHICKENS in our garage!  But something deep inside told me to hold back my disdain when I saw Scott's excitement. So~~~~ I just smiled and said,~~"Wow honey, we really got~~~uh~~~chickens~~uh~~~wow~~"

 And from that moment on, I've had to share Scott's affections with his other "girls", because he has taken great joy in raising these funky chickens!  I have chicken stories aplenty!  Enough to write a blog a day for a year, in fact!  But I smile as I tell each one of them.  I smile, because seeing my husband act like a child~~~or a proud daddy~~~or a slightly crazy Redneck~~~well, whatever~~
seeing him like that just makes me all warm inside!

I suppose each of us needs a little something to remind us that some of the simplest of things can bring some of the greatest laughs and release some of the greatest burdens of life.  If I would have known that all it would take is a coop full of hens to make my husband so happy, I would have built the coop and ordered the peeps in the mail my own self!

Hey, did I ever tell you about Farrah?  She was one of our~~~I mean Scott's~~~ hens that actually landed a part in a movie at Northwest College!~~~~~