Random Photos on a Wednesday Night

The first photo tonight shows my hand holding two brown eggs with an "X" across them.  These are chalk eggs that we put in the nesting boxes.  They serve at least two purposes.  First, they entice the hens to lay eggs in the boxes versus in random hidden locations.  They often do this and then you can't find the eggs.  Once you find one of the hiding places, then you have to check that spot each day.

The primary reason for these fake eggs are for snakes.  Rat snakes (or as we call them, chicken snakes) love to slither into the boxes and eat the chicken eggs.  They then squeeze through a tight location and break the eggs in their bodies so that they can digest the protein.  I don't mind when these snakes eat rats.  It's when they lazily go after our eggs that we have to do something about it.  These chalk eggs do the trick.  Rat snakes cannot break the chalk eggs and thus, cannot digest them.  They get a bad case of constipation and die.  Russ was walking in the woods behind our land and found these two chalk eggs laying side by side near a pile of sticks.  Undoubtedly, the snake that ate them died.  Russ reclaimed the eggs and we put them back in the hen house in the laying boxes to catch more snakes.

It is hard to beat a warm, homemade flour tortilla.  Tricia makes them using a recipe from her mom and we devour them.  Obviously, we eat lots of tacos, but just putting cheese in them is good.  We also cut up avocados and fold up a tortilla around them.  Our recent favorite is putting refried black beans in a warm tortilla.  That's good eatin'!  The photo below shows something that Tricia taught us.  I think it is a Corpus Christi thing.  The photo below shows a "Charlie Brown" tortilla.  That means it is toasted on the griddle with brown spots.  It's so much better than the white tortillas that are sort of rubbery and chewy.  Here is a Charlie Brown tortilla:  We like them this way.

I like taking pictures of church signs.  Some are funny, some are clever, and some are just thought provoking.  I took this one in Oakdale the other morning.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.  Romans 12:2 KJV