Blog-iversary!

Tomorrow marks one year since starting my blog! Hooray!

I logged 56 entries which is an average of one per week. Technically I met my goal of one per week except that I cranked out 6-8 entries in the first 4 months, barely blogged in the summer, and made a decent come back in the fall into winter. I read a few of my early entries for some retrospect and realized I promised to fill you in on the infamous video of me chasing a chicken. There's two versions but I'll play the sped up edited version set to music! Hold tight though... a few updates first:

• My running career is non-existent. By the time my lungs recovered from six weeks of coughing, the weather was freezing, the roads were snow/ice covered, and I was not motivated. The weather was nicer this week albeit muddy so Homestead Phil and I took a few walks!
• We are still praying for direction as to our family size. We are hyper focused on serving one another and growing our businesses: Rent The Chicken and The Chicken Network. We're always focused on growing our businesses but this time of year requires extra focus and we are not skimping on the focus.
• I've never been one to select a "theme" or a "word of the year" but this year I have one. I'll likely dedicate a blog post to it at some point but here's a sneak peak - 2019 The Year of The Harvest!
• We have a big big big project we've been working on that we will announce on February 17th unless there's a change in our schedule. Stay tuned!

Let's talk about ways to catch a chicken! Have you seen this meme? It cracks me up every time!

Also, in an older Rocky movie as well as in Creed, there are iconic scenes during training where a chicken is being caught to train for speed and agility. You know the scene, right? I'll link to clips below. We've no joke had a swim coach call to arrange for us to bring a few chickens for his team to "train like Rocky". Once the swim team was done chasing chickens around, the Rent The Chicken kid swooped in and picked up the chickens like a boss! haha

Rocky:


Creed:


Are you ready to watch the coveted "How to catch a runaway chicken" video? I'll set the scene: Homestead Phil recorded from his second floor office rather than coming outside to help me. We've remodeled our bulk chicken keeping area since then. The original video has Homestead Phil commentary but this version is set to Benny Hill and sped up. No more spoilers though! I've gotten much better in almost five years!

Without further ado, the never published on my blog video of me chasing a chicken circa Spring 2014:



For those who prefer unedited versions of productions (word use very loosely in this case!) here is the original with Homestead Phil commentary:


Proof that I can catch a chicken or at least hold one? haha:

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