My Mom and Her Chickens

I went to Mom’s last Saturday and when I arrived I asked her if she could put on her apron so that I could take some pictures of her and her chicken eggs. Of course she obliged and I helped her straighten her apron; tugging on the strings and untwisting the straps. Such fond memories of her tying my ties came flooding over me as I adjusted her straps and ties.

She was so-o-o cute as she tried to hold as many eggs in her hands as she could.

I kept telling her that she was going to drop them and I laughed when she told me that they were only eggs. I know how terrible she would have felt if just one of them would have fallen and hit the cement.

I finally convinced her to sit down and hold them all in her apron skirt. I loved how she picked them up and showed me how different each one of them were. How one would be white and the next one would be brown and speckled.

We spent a few hours in the house but mostly we spent the day outside with the chickens and talking about the chickens. I mentioned to Jarred that Mom had said that she sometimes catches a chicken and held it and of course she had to show me how she could. Of course she came over to me and asked me if I wanted to pet it and touch it. So I did. I especially love how her hands look as she held the chicken.

This chicken thought it was going to get away from her but little did the chicken know that Mom is still quite quick for her age of almost 83 years young. That chicken didn’t have a chance of escaping Mom’s quick hands.

She had to tell me about how one of the chickens was having problems and they didn’t know for sure what was wrong with it. Jarred had googled the symptoms of the chicken and came up with some home remedies and had tried a few of them already.

You could tell that Mom was very concerned about that chickens well being. She kept talking to her and tried to get it to drink water and eat.

Well, I wonder who those chickens are following now?

Of course they know the person that feeds them. 😉

Mom was having a hard time keeping the chickens from scratching around in the flower beds. They kept shoving dirt onto her sidewalk.

As you can see from the pictures here that my Mom sure enjoys feeding and taking care of the chickens. I can’t help but think that the chickens love her and as you can see will follow her anywhere; even if it is to the burn pile to toss some more pieces of limbs on. I am so happy that Mom is feeling much better and is able to get out and do a few more things. I hope you all have had a good week and I will be sharing the projects that I have been working on the last week in my next post. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Talk to you soon.