E is for eggs
Laura's hand felt gently over the sleeping chicks, huddled together in a corner of the coop. Then she stood looking at the summer night. She did not know how long she had stood there, until she saw Ma coming from the house.-Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 7: Nine Dollars
"Oh, there you are Laura," Ma softly said. As Laura had done, she knelt and put her hand through the coop's door to fell the huddled chicks. The she, too, stood looking.
"The place begins to look like a farm," she said. The oatfield and the cornfield were shadowy pale in the darkness, and the garden was bumpy with lumps of dark leaves. Like pools of faint star-shine among them spread the cucumber vines and pumpkins. The low sod stable could hardly be seen, but from the house window a warm yellow light shone out.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Did you know that, on Rocky Ridge Farm, Laura Ingalls Wilder was well known for her chickens and was able to get her hens to lay eggs even during the winter?
 |
| Here's my little connection with Laura - my chickens! Ida, Alice, Minnie, Lena, and Hetty They give us five (sometimes four) beautiful brown eggs every day! |
Have a Happy E-day!
**Join me and many other Laura fans at LauraPalooza 2012 (the second-ever Laura Ingalls Wilder Conference), which will be held July 12-14, 2012, in Mankato, Minnesota. For more information visit Beyond Little House and look for the heading "LauraPalooza 2012". The pull down menu will have all of the information that you are looking for!**
This post I expected somehow, bt very nice. :)
ReplyDeleteFresh eggs every day...fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI love the names of your chickens! Farm fresh eggs, him.
ReplyDeleteI'm also a mother of grown kids, and I live in the country. Found you on the A-Z challenge, and happy to be a new follower. It's fun to be finding "rural" types or "rural types at heart" this year in the challenge.
ReplyDeleteChicken names - I love them. I've always had a desire to raise chickens.
ReplyDeleteGreat chicken names! I would like to have some so they would eat the ticks..but I am afraid they would become dinner for Fox and Coyotes:(
ReplyDeleteHorray for fresh eggs. Gobble Gobble.
ReplyDeleteLove your A to Z Challenge theme. There's incredible wonder and beauty in the Little House books--read them about 10,000 times when I was a kid. I try to live like Laura, too, simple and straightforward and filled with love. See you around the challenge!
ReplyDeleteWhat great names for chickens! Very cute and I love the pic.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of my childhood days... thanks for the nostalgic feelings. Blessings
ReplyDeleteI love that you're posting pieces of the books here and then giving facts! I will always love tales of the Ingalls family!
ReplyDeleteLena and Hetty -- aren't these names of characters in the books?
ReplyDeleteLena was a cousin, and Hetty an aunt of Laura's, right?