Today I'm 60. I don't feel any different. Well, maybe a bit different physically than I did at 30 or even 40. But mentally, I'm still the same. Same old anti-fascist I've always been. If I've mellowed at all, it's only to be more forgiving of people. I shrug off hateful comments more than I did when I was young. I think part of that is because I live on this homestead. I think people who are closer to the earth and closer to the rhythms of nature are gentler with others. We see a lot of diversity and a lot of life, and death, on a farm.
Today I got a nice birthday surprise from one of my young hens. A green egg! Five months ago, a couple of weeks before I bought my own incubator, I took several eggs to a friend who had an incubator. She hatched the eggs for me. When she gave me the chicks she told me she had also been hatching eggs for a friend and she might have confused some of the eggs.
She was right! Apparently she gave me an Araucana chick! Araucana chicks and Rhode Island Red chicks look amazingly alike when they are days old. Araucanas lay eggs that can be anywhere from blue to blue-green to olive green.
I went out this morning to gather eggs and there in the pullet's coop was a beautiful green egg. My special birthday present from one of my girls. I feel special, indeed. What a nice gift on this my 60th birthday.
I hope I am growing old gracefully.
More later....
