Cackleberries

Some friends of ours have a daughter that recently got into the egg business.  So she got some chickens and set them up on the family property and put the word out that she was in business.

Her pricing schedule gives a discount if you gather the eggs yourself rather than her gathering them so that's what we do.  That way the eggs are only just a little more expensive than what you buy at the store. 

Plus you get the joy of interacting with all those chickens.  Not that they're real social creatures, they just like to gather around anyone that might be there to feed them.

So once a week we go out and gather eggs.  We even bought a cute little basket for it. 

We go out and gather about two dozen eggs each time.  Now chickens are not the cleanest creatures with their eggs.  So when we get home we have to wash and clean the eggs up.

This week we came home and had scrambled eggs.  We like to spice them up with peppers, onions, and cheese.  Sometime we put other things in them as well but we didn't have any of that stuff on hand this particular evening.

Farm to table, right?   Farm-fresh eggs.  Pretty nice to my way of thinking.