Meet Morna Flower. Until recently Morna had a nursery down the road in Pembrooke where she also sold chickens. Lots of chickens. Almost enough to qualify her as a crazy chook lady. She has sold her business now and has got rid of a lot of her chooks in preparation for a trip around Australia with her husband, a piano, her little dog and some of her chooks. The trailer she is standing in front of is the one she had built especially for the trip, with the chooks housed on one side, a camp kitchen on the other and the piano between the two. For a quick tinkle of the ivories you just have to lower the tailgate and the piano slides right out – just the thing for the dancing dog and chicken double act she’s working on. I love it. Gold. Think of all the prioritising that goes on when thinking of how to spend your money and yet their list for what a trailer had to have for their trip around Australia settled on chook accommodation and a slide out piano. Thank goodness for people like Morna in the world, following their dreams and letting their bright light shine.
We went to see Morna today to buy some fertilised Araucana eggs to slip under Gladys. Em has been coveting Araucana eggs, which are a very pale blue, for some time now so we’ve bought six in the hope we’ll get about three new hens to keep up a regular supply. Tonight we substituted six of the eggs Gladys has just started sitting on for our new pale blue beauties, slipping them under her while she was half asleep.
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She sounds awesome.
And your life sounds pretty good too - hatching eggs and all, I;m still dreaming of our first chicken coop.
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