What's this got to do with the price of eggs?

So this week, I can begin to imagine the fruits (vegetables?) of my labors. The chickens look huge now, and the Wyandottes are starting to get wattles and combs. Some very weird noises have been heard over the last week, but nothing I can, even with my urban ear, mold into a crow. Generally sounds akin to strangling and acute distress, usually the result of one of the four not noticing that the group has moved on and left her behind. WHERE are they? HOW can I find them? WHAT were they thinking with their tiny bird brains, leaving me here???

Sadly the group rarely cares, and the bereft lady is left to her own devices, or herded with much laughter back to the backyard by the wingless ones.

So that's a bit of a digression. In my chasing the ladies around the vegetable garden, I've finally noticed a first zucchini and some tiny tomatoes. Our single struggling basil is getting larger as well. In another month or so, the girls should start laying. At $4 a dozen for free range eggs, and $1.50 a pound for summer squash, we'll be rich and well fed. Bring on the fritata recipes!