A chicken mystery...

After a long day of all the regular stuff we do around here, plus I DID go to that ballgame I wanted to see....I went to shut my chicken coop last night.  It was already completely dark because we had to repair a flat tire I had when I got home from previously mentioned ball game.  Yep, that's what I get for taking time out for me-ha!  The devil surely does not want me to do that apparently.  Anyway, as I walked to the coop, I noticed chickens were roosting on the dog pen-again.  I have worked SO HARD to get the chickens all back in the coop at night and merging the old chickens with the new ones.  Finally, it's been working great.  Then last night, all was amiss.  I found another chicken in the shed where I keep the food for them.  A third was in the pet carrier I use to bring new chickens home.  Weird.  I get to the pen and lo and behold, it's already closed.  Hmmm....how did THAT happen?  One chicken was inside.  I immediately asked if anyone knew what was going on, and Emilynn pipes up and says she shut the pen earlier in the day.  I will admit, I got a teensy bit upset about that.  I felt like all my hard work was down the tubes.  I am hoping tonight they will all go back in the pen like normal.  Sigh.  So.....we spent the next 30 minutes finding all the chickens.  Dustin held the light and I plucked them up one by one from their roosting spots and put them back in the coop where they would be safe.  Some had gone in the woods to roost.  Luckily, most of them don't mind me holding them and handling them.  We finally got all of them up, got the kids bathed and in bed, and I collapsed in bed myself.  I had to laugh at what a sight it must have been, us running around the yard searching and grabbing chickens.  I surely should have worn the shirt Meme was kind enough to pick up for me for my birthday last fall......

Yep, that's me!!!