Thursday, October 8, 2009

Did I tell you about the time I locked myself in the chicken coop?


So, It's early in the morning and I need an egg. Woosh, wind blows the latch down. Lock tight. No escape. It's freezing cold, I'm in my robe and slippers (duh) and the kids are about to wake up. No use sreaming, the kids sleep like the dead and no neighbors for 4 acres on all sides. No, I have to cram my body through the chicken size door from the sheltered side to the ouside mesh side. Scratch my head. Scratch my face. Scratch my arms. Scratch my back and crush my ribs (all of them) not to mention all the chicken crap I'm crawling through and the stupid chickens that are staring at me like I'M the idiot. Suddenly I'm half my original size, but I'm out. THEN I have to jam my fingers through the wire mesh, rip off all the skin (every finger) pop a knuckle, barely reach the lock, slide it over, pull my bloody fingers back through the cheese grater wire mesh, pop my knuckle back in, push the door open and POOF, I'm out. Yay. Smelly, poopy, bloody fingered and all scratched up. You cannot EVEN imagine my relief. Worst day of my life. Hopefully, the funniest day of yours!
Had to be there.

10 comments:

Lindsay said...

OH MY GOODNESS! That had to have been just awful!! Good thing you are so skinny and little that you were able to squeeze through! I can't even imagine!

Jenny H said...

You are crazy!! I cannot believe you did that. Actually, I can...but, only because it is totally something I would do.
Thanks for the laugh.:)

Julie Thurgood Summerhays said...

Yes, Yes - I thoroughly enjoyed that story - thanks for making me laugh - although I am SO sorry that you had to get chicken poop on you:)

Kimberly said...

Kira, you're great!

Stephanie said...

Oh sad! :( Funny, but sad. I would have loved to have been inside waiting for you when you came back in. THAT would have made me laugh. And feel bad, too.

Glad you made it out alive! Love you!

Tami Harris said...

hahaha! ROFL...sorry it has to be at your expense!

Leisha said...

That's pretty dang funny!! But I'm sure you weren't laughing at the time.

Chad and Tenaya said...

Thanks for the laugh. I feel bad for you. Nice moving though, skinny mama.

Meg said...

yah. that's pretty much the worst thing i could imagine happening to me right now!!! way to survive!

Kathy Smith said...

That is pretty much the funniest thing I've heard in a long time! The way you told it made it even funnier, which it probably wasn't at all when it was happening to you. Thanks for giving us the laugh!

Happy Birthday today too!

Love,
Kathy