{"id":1379,"date":"2013-08-06T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2013-08-06T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:17:34","slug":"the-egg-and-i-and-a-trip-to-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"The Egg and I and a Trip to England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does anyone remember the movie, “The Egg and I,”\u00a0 that starred Fred McMurray and\u00a0Claudette Colbert?\u00a0 You have to be really old to remember it although TMC may show it once in a while. It’s about a man and woman who move from the city onto a farm to raise chickens and all the problems they had and all the crazy neighbors they had.\u00a0 I use to love watching it.\u00a0 Perhaps you could see it somewhere online.<\/p>\n

I’m living a sort of Egg and I life right now.\u00a0 Raising chickens has been more fun than I could ever imagine.\u00a0 I feel at one with the chooks.\u00a0 They are my peeps.\u00a0 They cluck and I cluck back. They ruffle their feathers and I….well, maybe not.\u00a0 \u00a0 Now we are reaping the rewards of all the time and money we have spent on them by gathering eggs every day. They are still small, but I live in hope they will get bigger as we go along.\u00a0 We ate some yesterday for breakfast.<\/p>\n

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Look at that bright orange yolk.<\/p>\n

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The store bought egg is on the right.\u00a0 It was a double yolker however.<\/p>\n

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We ate our breakfast al fresco by the pool.\u00a0 Yes, that is Spam on our plates.\u00a0 I do like a slice or two of Spam occasionally.\u00a0\u00a0 Spam has gotten a bum rap.\u00a0 My doctor is stocking up Spam for the end times he tells me.\u00a0 If it is good enough for my doctor, it’s good enough for me.<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed the garden as we ate.<\/p>\n

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Belle joined us. These are her begging eyes.\u00a0 Can’t you tell?<\/p>\n

The other day I received a wonderful book in the mail.\u00a0 I found a blog over a year ago written by Susan Branch.\u00a0 I had never heard of her before that, but I absolutely loved her blog.\u00a0 She calls all her readers her “girl friends,” and always has something wonderful to write about.\u00a0 She gave a tea party for the new Prince George for her friends and neighbors.\u00a0 It was quite something and looked like so much fun.\u00a0 Anyway, she writes books.\u00a0 She handwrites them and water colors them and they are just amazing.\u00a0 They include recipes and sayings and Susan’s outlook on life.\u00a0 As she says about others, she has the “happy” gene.\u00a0\u00a0 Susan and her husband, Joe, took a two month vacation to England last year and she chronicled it in a diary.\u00a0 They went over on the Queen Mary2 and rented a car and drove all over England.\u00a0 That is exactly what David and I want to do.<\/p>\n

Her diary came out in hardcover just last week and\u00a0as I had\u00a0pre-ordered the book, I got mine\u00a0last week.\u00a0 It’s signed and everything.\u00a0 This is a book you cannot read on Kindle.\u00a0 It is a\u00a0book you need to hold and smell and leaf through over and over and read excerpts from it and stare at the pictures and read some more.<\/p>\n

Susan handwrote the entire book and drew her wonderful water color pictures.\u00a0 This book is a travel guide of sorts and tells all the places they stayed and what they ate where and how crazy it was to drive on the left side of the road.\u00a0 David and I did that when we visited the Virgin Islands and David thinks it is easier to drive on the left side of the road instead of the right.\u00a0 He even said the other day he wished he could find a car with the steering wheel on the right.\u00a0 My guy is crazy like that.<\/p>\n

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She called her book A Fine Romance.\u00a0 It tells how she met her husband after she had pretty much given up ever getting married and her love of the English countryside.<\/p>\n

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I have read this book and am reading it again.\u00a0 It’s that wonderful.\u00a0 If you love England, you will love this book.\u00a0 Here are some of Susan’s watercolors and pictures from the book.<\/p>\n

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She loves Beatrix Potter, the author of Peter Rabbit, and visited her home called Hilltop.<\/p>\n

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She and Joe walked through many fields with sheep in them.<\/p>\n

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Love these phone booths. Are they really used anymore or are they just for atmosphere now?<\/p>\n

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They sailed on the Queen Mary2.\u00a0 There were over three thousand people on the ship.\u00a0 David and I want to sail across to England, but David said we will probably have to take a freighter.\u00a0 I’m not sure about sailing on such a big ship.\u00a0 We will have to see.\u00a0 We want to go over on our fiftieth wedding anniversary. I really don’t want to fly.<\/p>\n

Still picking cucumbers.\u00a0 Fifteen yesterday and four today because I really didn’t want to look for them.\u00a0 Also we are getting tomatoes.\u00a0 They are so good.\u00a0 Nothing is as good as that first tomato from the garden.<\/p>\n

Here’s to English diaries, dining al fresco and laying hens..\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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