Several blogs back I wrote about going to visit Linda, who had just gotten some chicks. Well, her older hens are now a'layin, and their eggs are beautiful! I especially like the green Araucana eggs. They're purty. The chicks have grown, too, but they're not laying yet.
In addition to organic feed, Linda feeds her chickens all the scraps from the leftover organic produce we sell at New Life. It makes me feel good to know exactly where my food comes from and know that the animals that provided it are loved and cared for. Eggs from happy chickens make damn good omelets!
YUM.
But after breakfast, what to do? I'll probably stay inside most of the day, since it's gonna' be a scorcher like usual. (Maybe I'll do a rain dance. We need some monsoon action.) The only place to escape the heat of the Tucson summer is inside a movie theater or up on Mt. Lemmon. Nate and I drove up to Summerhaven with my brother Christopher the other day. On the way up the mountain we stopped at Rose Lake, where we encountered about 50 of these little guys:
I think that they're Alpine or Colorado chipmunks, I'm not sure which. They were bouncing all over everything and fighting with the Acorn Woodpeckers and Scrub Jays. So cute! We threw pebbles to get them to come closer--they were pretty tame. I think the people who go to the lake to fish have fed them one too many Cheetos.
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I love your breakfast.
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