There's A Chicken Inside My Gramma's Kitchen Sink!!!

Collecting eggs is one of my favorite parts of owning chickens, my own daily Easter egg hunt. The girls primarily lay their eggs in the mornings, so I collect their "butt nuggets" in the afternoon while they sunbathe or take their dirt baths in the woods. I have nine nesting boxes that all get heavily used by my 50 layers, but some of the more shy hens have found some other interesting places to lay their eggs. Their favorite place to lay eggs right now is ironically one of my favorite places inside my coop, my Gramma's pea green kitchen sink.

Shark Bite is my "Chicken Model" showing off Gramma's Kitchen Sink. If you look closely, eggs are piled underneath the sink, the favorite laying spot right now.

When Gramma's house was renovated two years ago, I asked my dad if I could have her sink. He thought I was crazy to ask for such an old, ugly sink bound for the garbage bin... but Gramma's sink is really special. She spent 50 years of her life with her hands inside that kitchen sink. Gramma started every morning with her head inside the sink washing her short hair under the faucet. She refused to use her dishwasher, so she handwashed all her dishes in that sink while gazing out her window watching Grandpa work in their huge vegetable garden. Every thanksgiving, Gramma washed an enormous 20-30 pound turkey in that sink while teaching me how to prepare and clean it (and how to overcook it, wink, wink to my cousins). Every summer, she canned at least 50 quarts of beans in that sink. She made gallon upon gallon of sun tea in that sink. The list could go on and on...the heart of Gramma's house was her kitchen sink.

Every day when I look at Gramma's pea green kitchen sink inside the coop, I imagine her looking back at me with a look of never-ending love and joy, a look that only a grandma gives her grandchild. The hens LOVE Gramma's sink, it's their favorite laying spot for their eggs. Every day when I collect eggs underneath Gramma's sink, I sometimes wonder how she would feel if she saw her sink, which used to be kept immaculately clean, sitting in a dirty chicken coop...loved on by a bunch of fluffy hens. Hopefully she would find it unusually funny and laugh and call me her crazy girl.

My handy dandy Halloween bucket even GLOWS IN THE DARK so I can collect eggs when the sun goes down.

After collecting around three dozen eggs every afternoon, I carefully place the eggs in a Halloween bucket that I stole from my kids. The eggs go to my Dining Room which I've converted to be my kids' school room and my egg processing room....once and awhile we eat in there, but most of the time the room is covered in eggs and school work.

My kids and I hand deliver 10-20 dozen

eggs to the people in our subdivision every Sunday evening, which is one of the highlights of our week. We love providing our neighbors with an egg delivery service full of good customer service and smiles, delivering fresh eggs that are fresh, organic, and healthy.

Thanks for reading my Country Squawk,

Kelly