<p style="text-align:center;"><em>A guest blog from Chicken Wrangler Sara</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">There are advantages to raising chickens. They get food and water and sometimes grass, and they are happy.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hens2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1118" alt="hens2" src="http://judythewriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hens2.jpg?w=300" width="300" height="199" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Humans, on the other hand, need many things.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Last Wednesday proved the last. It’s my usual my day to clean the bathrooms and mop the kitchen floor, but that didn’t happen for three reasons.</p>

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<div style="text-align:left;">Beekeeper Brian called at 8:30 to ask if I could bring him his ID, which he had left on the dresser. Not a problem – I had something to drop off near his school anyway.</div></li>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Then Rachel texted and asked if I could meet her at the band hall at 10:50 with her jacket. OK, I could still get some things done at the house between taking the ID and taking the jacket.</div></li>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Then Matthew texted - “Can you go by Thorn (music store) and pick up some drum sticks?” By this time, I was a little frustrated so I told him I would have to see.</div></li>
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<p style="text-align:left;">After a bit of thougt, I decided taking care of family was more important than a clean bathroom.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">As I left the house to make the deliveries, a woman was putting a flyer on my mailbox for a maid service. Rather ironic, it seemed to me considering I really wanted to be at home cleaning house myself.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Instead, I was off delivering things to my humans…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Beekeeper Brian his ID,
Rachel her jacket,
and drumsticks to Matt.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">This morning as I fed the chickens I thought about how simple it was to take care of them.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Chickens don’t need IDs.
Chickens don’t need jackets.
Chickens don’t need drumsticks – they already have them.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">However, not one of those chickens said “thanks, sweetheart” or ‘Mom, you’re the greatest.”</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">I realized while there are advantages to raising chickens, they do not outweigh the advantages of raising a family.</p>