Found

What do you see in the fruit basket? It's the first fresh egg we've seen around here in a few weeks. My hens have stopped laying for the winter, but I found this egg on my front porch - it was still warm. It all started when Vicki called to say there was a hen wandering in the neighborhood and was it mine. It wasn't. Bonnie took the hen into her chicken coop until we could find who it belonged to. Later, she reported that it had wandered off again. Then we learned another neighbor lost her two hens to raccoons a few days earlier. Just after dark I turned on the porch light and checked for a package I hoped had arrived. One had, but not the one I'd expected: I found the lost hen sitting on my porch bench and next to her was this egg. My phone was upstairs - let that be a lesson - or it would've been a great picture. I put the hen in with our own hens and the egg into the basket. Stay tuned - we have a chicken saga going on here.