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The Chicken Chronicles: A Letter to Reba

Posted on January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 by TheIrishLady in Sharing

Dear Sweet Reba,

You were just a chicken to the common hoard, but to me you were a kindred spirit. At first I took you as grouchy and kind of pushy, then I realized you were the one busy laying all the eggs and minding the nest while the others were mindlessly pecking about. I get grouchy too when I’m the one doing all the work and no one appreciates my efforts. You seemed a little put out when I raised the egg box lid to peek at you when you were laying, but then we established a sweet kind of banter between us. I loved how you responded to words of encouragement with your chirp chirp chirp so charming and different from the usual boc boc boc or however that goes. When I picked you up you nuzzled your head close to me and rested there just like a real hug.

Your house was as close to the back door that I can get it without bringing it on the porch. I kept you behind a fence with a roof and locked you in every night without fail. For exercise and because you loved it so much I let you out every evening just before dusk. I am so sorry that I went back in the house for five minutes. I heard the commotion and ran to find you in the mouth of the neighbor’s dog. I am sick and mad and angry. Even though I don’t consider myself to be an over the top animal lover, I was the care taker of you and I feel responsible and that I disappointed you by leaving you alone for a moment.

In our neck of the woods chickens are not valued and considered disposable. Its the farmer’s way and I understand. What I don’t understand is a domestic pet that is allowed and encouraged to hunt other domesticated animals. The consequence of a neighbor allowing their dog to roam and hunt freely should not be me getting permission from that same owner to “just shoot the dog”. Reba, I could have shot the dog and maybe you would have not died in my arms. Knowing you, I think you would have chosen to allow the dog to live just like I did.

Silly of me to write a letter to you a chicken, I think, but I needed to say I have been sad since you have gone and your sisters have not been the same. You kept things in order. They felt safe because you were there watching over them and alerting them to danger. You did your job well and you meant something to this make shift little farm. Bless you, dear girl. You are dearly missed.

Love,

The Irish Lady

Women Voted

Posted on November 7, 2012December 18, 2012 by TheIrishLady in Sharing

This election and the last four years have been exhausting. The media and their obvious bias is disgusting and that includes Fox who touts themselves as a conservative channel. As you watched the election results, they couldn’t hide their obvious pleasure even seeming giddy and silly at times with their pointless banter. After declaring Obama President none of the discussion included the tax increases we face or the fact that we have American soldiers at war or the heinous and insurmountable debt we are facing. They talked about what Mitt Romney had done wrong which is typical liberal modus operandi – to deflect. Never mind the facts about Obama who has never had a budget, never gotten us out of Afghanistan (instead put us in Libya), did not defend Americans in Benghazi, declares us a non-Christian nation while entertaining Muslim groups in The White House, gives amnesty to illegals who further drain our medical and welfare systems, and on and on.

I JUST WANT TO SHOUT, “WHO WILL PAY FOR YOUR FREE STUFF?” Do you really believe you are so privileged that you can go to a doctor for free or get a cell phone for nothing or collect endless unemployment until you retire on social security? With 47% of Americans on some form of government freebie, unemployment, no new job creation due to restrictions and cap and trade which Obama will probably sign as an executive order, the other 53% of working Americans won’t be able to hold up much longer. SHAME ON YOU FOR LEAVING THE BILL TO YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!
Worst of all, 55% of votes for Obama were from women who sold America out for a $10 pack of birth control pills and the right to kill their own babies. God help us! To that end, I will tell you my faith is not in the government, but in the Almighty God Who knows before we know what our sinful actions will be, but allow me to print a scripture written over two thousand years ago:

2 Timothy 3:1-7
(NIV)

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, no lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God – having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into the homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sin and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I HOPE THIS MAKES YOU THINK!