Chicken eggs

Farmer's wife went early morning to collect chicken eggs. There was nothing in the chicken coop. She stopped in the barn, looked in all corners, under the machinery, and on the back. There was nothing either. Her next stop was at the cows. It happened before that chickens laid their eggs in the hay. She couldn't find anything. She even looked into cows' mouths searching for broken egg shells and smeared egg yolks. Nothing. Did they stopped laying eggs? Why? She came home empty handed and her husband was asking for the eggs sunny side up. She drove to the store, but the shelves, where the eggs usually are, were empty. Nothing was there. “The farms in the country are snowed in. They couldn't deliver today, or yesterday.” She borrowed couple eggs from the neighbor. It wasn't wise to cross her husband in the morning. “You are late.” She quickly fried bacon and eggs. After her husband left she went to search again. This wasn't her first time she couldn't find a single egg. This was actually going on for about a month. She searched yard, flower beds, vegetable garden, under trees, by the fence. The dog was in her doghouse. She was very quiet. What is going on with that dog? So she went to peek inside. The dog was keeping warm three nests full of eggs while the hens were pecking around. Copyright (c) Marie Neumann Pottsville, February 2014 GROW assignment