All Cooped Up.

So apparently you have to be on the top of your game all the time around my animal sanctuary. Today I was all cooped up. LITERALLY! Yes, let me explain...Being the nice chicken mom I am I decided to go out and give the silly birds a special treat. And also being the sucker softie I am, I had to put the food where there was a cool shady spot so that they could all eat in not such extreme heat. So I go into the now extended chicken coop(Brady built a large cage/wire around the actual coop so they could come out but still be confined to peck a certain area) blahhh, anyway. Stepped in the coop to put the stinkin' food in the shady spot toward the back of the coop when I hear, "SLAM......CLICK" the door shut me in and I turn around like..."whoops" thinking I can get back out in a breeze...Ahhhh...no, not so easy. I couldn't even believe I had done such a stupid thing! Here I am in a flippin' chicken coop with all these crazy pecking, scratchy, dirt flinging , squawky chickens. Thinking, this is the stupidest thing I've done. Everyone in the neighborhood is going to think I am a complete MORAN!! Or they may think Brady locked me out there on bad behavior. Either way this is mortifying. I look around for a stick, or something small I can flip the latch with...Nothing. My chubby fingers are not even close to fitting. So I try pushing the sucker thinking it will maybe move enough I could reach my arm out and around. Nothing.

Then I thought...crap, Greyson will wake up any minute now, and Brayden is inside chowing down on watermelon I just gave him. I'm thinking, whatta sight, how dumb could I look right now, I can't even stand up straight in this stupid thing. For 10 minutes it was just me, the coop, and the chicks. Groovy. Then at that point I started to yell for Brayden, no little hero to my rescue. I thought, K...Brady should be home any minute now. Still worried and thinking about Greyson, I punched the top of the chicken wire off hard, so I could reach around and just lift the latch. I think I said," you gotta be friggin' KIDDING ME" about 10 times.....to myself. Man, I REALLY hope no one saw the crazy chicken neighbor lady!! Talking to herself and punching out the chicken wire :) hahahaha..... So I walk inside my house and guess who I see, my hubby chowing down watermelon with Brayden....Whatta team! :) Nevermind Mom stuck in the flipping chicken house...90 degree heat and all :) Afterward, it was pretty funny.

Lesson Learned, don't get all cooped up!