Pretty Pretty Eggs at Easter Time...belated

This Easter Phoebe was given these truly beautiful eggs by her grandparents...no, not the ones in the nest! ...although, I reckon you'd be forgiven for wondering, as apart from the stand-out colours these chocolate eggs are pretty close to bird's eggs, don't you think? [And they are organic!]

The also (I think) magnificently-comfy-looking nest and it's tiny eggs belonged to a family(to-be-that-never-was! :-( ) of barn-swallows and was accidentally knocked down during a Spring Clean Up we were having. Since then it has resided on the Season Table we keep in our entrance way. A place Phoebe displays all the little treasures she finds on her outdoor 'doings' and reminds us of the current Season - although, as I mentioned - this was from Spring and somehow it is just so lovely, we haven't been able to part with it yet...

Pretty Eggs - thank you chookies!

So this is what we are getting - lovely semi-organic, cruetly-free freshest eggs with yolks a rich orange-yellow that stand pertly when broken...so good! We are particulary taken with the blue/green coloured eggs... we believe "Perky" is responsible for one of them and we are still doing the detective work to discover who lays the other one.













As you can see inside the girls' Chook Dome, there is an old lawn mower catcher, which is what the hens are laying their eggs in - it has a handle, is dark, cosy and weatherproof if faced away from the wind and it was FREE! (from the Dump!).
In the background of the photo, you can see a beautiful house truck, which we are taking care of for some friends who are busy wine-making in Oregon at the moment.

Look what Gladys DID!!!!

Now, as you probably know, if you've been following along, that we actually have a flock of 13 - Roger, our very special guy and his posse of very well-behaved girls...only, so far, they haven't produced a single egg...that is until this morning!

So exciting.

SO EXCITING.

SO EGGS-CITING!!!!

I probably embarrassed Phoebe quite well with my whoops of jubilation and jigs around the crunchy lawn - well, probably not - she joined in, too.

So, here it is - carefully cradled in those toasty little rainbow mittens - a small (remember - size isn't everything!) and yet perfectly-formed pullet egg.

We've tried to work out who to congratulate - there was the scrap of evidence attached in the form of a wisp of nether-fluff - black with a tinge of ginger - maybe Gladys, we thought...or maybe Goldie...possibly Digger, with her cute "feather hat"... now we can't wait for tomorrow morning...will it all be repeated again tomorrow?

SOOO EGGS-CITING !