Part 1: So I've been taking care of my neighbor's chickens while they're on vacation. My payment is the eggs and whatever ripe produce I want from their garden. OKEY DOKEY!!! It's better than a farmer's market because it's FREE!!!
There have been between 3-5 eggs a day and since I'm one of the only ones in the house brave enough to eat an egg directly from a chicken's bottom (well, I wash them!), the number of eggs in our house is not diminishing at all. I've got two dozen rural eggs in my fridge at any given time. Most everyone else prefers or accidentally grabs the bleached white sterilized ones.
So they're coming out of my ears!! or falling out of the fridge.
And now the tomatoes and green beens and strawberries are becoming prolific, so today's haul was fantastic! I may keep this up even AFTER they come home.
Part 2. There is a neighbor that hates me. I'm not sure why. She sits in her garage and watches everyone in the block. She watches me mow, weed or unload the car with groceries. I wave, she doesn't wave back. As I walk by, I say Good Morning! She sits there in silence. I'm sure it stems back to when her son and another boy up the street used to terrorize my son, chasing him home on their bikes in middle school.
No I don't keep grudges... ;) So today, I thought, maybe she thinks I hate HER.
And I got four eggs this morning... As she sat in her garage, I walked up to her and asked if she'd like any eggs or tomatoes as I have way too many and my family is afraid of chicken poop.
Ok, I'm lying about what I said about the last part. I made it sound less offensive. "They prefer store bought."
She was very appreciative and took the eggs off my hands. WOOHOO! I don't have to scrub eggs this morning!!! Or find a place to store them in the fridge! We're low on empty cartons.
First contact has been made...
And I'm having a tomato sandwich for lunch. :)
6 comments:
You are so much nicer than I am. Anyone that let's their kids be mean to mine, well let's just say that I would have been winging pooh covered eggs at her mean butt.
I am so jealous of your real tomato sammich.......sniff, sniff
Good for you! The first move is always the hardest. I can't believe your crew won't eat fresh eggs! I wouldn't buy anymore until they ate what was there. But that's just me. I know Daddy's eggs are clean and haven't been refrigerated for who knows how long before they come to my house. I just never thought about someone NOT liking fresh eggs!! Daddy would be swimming in eggs if we didn't like them! Here's to quiches, custards, and puddings! And eggs and tomato sandwiches with mayonnaise! ;) Or maybe tomato pie. Yum.
She is probably just lonely, or insane, or a serial killer, but you are a nice person. We give away eggs like crazy here.
Good for you!
Lol! I miss our fresh eggs!!!
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