<p style="text-align:center;"><em>A guest blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>
 Springtime in Texas is usually marked by fields of bluebonnets with small children having their picture taken. On Miller Farm, springtime is marked by the return of the lizards. They live all around our house and provide hours of entertainment for Sadie. She spends her days looking for lizards.<a href="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/sadie-and-lizards.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4606" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/sadie-and-lizards.png?w=296" alt="Sadie and lizards" width="296" height="300" /></a>

In fact this is so much a part of her routine that when she lost interest in lizards last fall, we took her to the vet. When he asked about her symptoms, we told him she wasn’t looking for lizards.

This was not at all alarming to the vet. He didn’t understand just how unlike her this was.

Sadie does, however, have a history of back problems so he thought she might be suffering some pain. He put her on steroids for a few days and she was back on lizard duty.

Bella, on the other hand, does not even notice the lizards. She spends her time checking on chickens.

<a href="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/bella-and-chickens.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4607 size-medium" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/bella-and-chickens.png?w=300" alt="bella and chickens" width="300" height="235" /></a>

There are some nights I have to walk all the way back to the chicken yard and pick her up. Because of her history as a chicken killer, I worry that she is plotting against them.

Then I remember this is Bella, who has memory issues and so probably is just trying to figure out what they are and from whence they came.

Spring means many different things to many different people. Here on Miller Farm it means looking for lizards and checking on chickens.