Food Storage

The Church has always taught its members to store food and supplies for emergencies or as a fall back in case of economic hardship. We have had an addition to our food storage in an unexpected way.

The other night I kept hearing our dog Elvis barking outside. I yelled at him to stop - which he did. The next day he barked on and off for periods of time - I'd yell at him to stop and, again, he would stop.

Yesterday Leo came home and said "Where did the chicks come from?"

Oh no, I thought, not baby chicks again. About a year ago a chicken laid eggs in our yard and 8 chicks hatched. Cute things - until they got old enough to crow - then they'd crow at all hours - including 2:00 in the morning. Finally, after many attempts to get them to move out of our yard Gene succeeded - although I will not tell you how (it was not homicide).

Since that time every so often a chicken will come in our yard and lay eggs. Gene will take the eggs and relocate them (I'm not saying where) and that would get rid of the mama and daddy too. No worries about crowing!!!

So when Leo mentioned the chick - my mind went back to our past experience.

"Gene will have to relocate them," I replied.

"But they are out there in a cage with food and water," she said.

"What!!!" - I ran out to see - at first I saw this -

Hmm - that is our beach towel - but what is it covering?

So that's what the dog's been barking at!

But where did they come from?

The culprit.

Those of you who know me know that I love animals - in the zoo. I am not a pet fan. This is why we have had fish, 3 rabbits, 2 rats, a duck, a turtle, a cat, 10 guinea pigs, a dog and now 3 chicks and I have never, ever, fed, petted, touched, bathed, watered, walked, or took any of them to the vet. I refuse to give them any attention. (Most of the animals have come via the culprit above)

And although I am not an animal fan - even I admit that letting these little chicks loose will mean their quick and certain death from neighborhood cats and dogs.

So I have been trying to find a silver lining in all of this and I think I finally have...food storage. We do eat chicken.