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<\/a><\/p>\nIf I want to write a Haiku about two chicken eggs, I will. It\u2019s been a discouraging month; few things have worked as they should these past several weeks. I was nearing the end of my rope this afternoon when my 11-year old daughter burst into the house carrying an egg in each hand, rewards of nine months work building chicken houses, hanging roost boxes, providing food & water, and fighting off our two hunting dogs who still think that these chickens were their<\/em> early Christmas presents. We had almost given up, assuming that these eggless birds would become yet ten more pieces of evidence that while the Piphers may live on a farm\u2026they are not farmers.<\/p>\n God\u2019s mercies are new every day. Sometimes they even come through chickens with a perfect sense of timing.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The First Two Eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n Nine months scooping poop<\/em><\/p>\n Yolk-filled proof sometimes things work<\/em><\/p>\n Not often, mind you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If I want to write a Haiku about two chicken eggs, I will. It\u2019s been a discouraging month; few things have worked as they should these past several weeks. I was nearing the end of my rope this afternoon when my 11-year old daughter burst into the house carrying an egg in each hand, rewards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1036,1033,1032,1017,76,681,1037,1031,1039,1034,77,1038,31,1035,1040,48,29],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicken-feed","tag-chickens","tag-eggs","tag-farmers","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-gods-mercies","tag-haiku","tag-hunting-dogs","tag-piphers","tag-ranching","tag-scooping-poop","tag-sportsmen","tag-the-briar-patch","tag-timing","tag-water","tag-zeke-pipher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n