Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Matlock Gathers the Eggs

Today in an immortal episode of Matlock, Matlock was in a chicken house gathering the eggs.  I don't know where this chicken house was because the location was not explained and I know he does not have a chicken house in his home in Atlanta where he is the most outstanding criminal defense lawyer in the city if not in the USA, despite the fact that he was the sheriff of Mayberry until middle age and I don't know how he managed to graduate from Harvard Law School and still collect a minimum retainer for all his clients for $100,000 a clip but of course all his clients are innocent so $100,000 is pretty cheap.  Anyway, back to the chicken house.  The chicken house was exactly like the chicken house I had to clean.  There was stuff all over the roosts and Matlock had to lean down in the straw in order to gather the eggs.  He had a basket of at least 3 dozen eggs which I don't know why he needed with his $100,000 retainer fees.  But I thought of Ann as I watched this episode.  I did not like being reminded of our chicken house at home.  I like my eggs in a cardboard carton in Albertson's grocery.  But the rural nostalgia is powerful and I may move back to Penrose yet and raise some chickens.  By then Ann will have fried her chickens and go two blocks to Costco to get 2 dozen super large nice white clean eggs for $2 or so.

6 comments:

Ann said...

Photos will be coming! Do not worry, big brother, today's chicken coop is much improved. Life is meant to be an adventure and this has potential.

Dwight said...

much laughter

Judy said...

How about a moving chicken coop? Our neighbors who have the dirty, black pigs, keep them in a tiny enclosed shed with a small fenced pen. Then every few days they drag the entire setup to a new location for the pigs to root.

Elizabeth said...

Alas, the old chicken coop in Penrose is a goner - but the last year the 5 and I lived there, Brig shot a skunk in it (with his 22), and probably made it condemned forever more. And Judy, who said anything about pigs. That's Dwight's bailiwick, too. Time to go outside and pull some dead plants.

Judy said...

Only thinking about the housing. If you can move pigs around, couldn't you move chickens around? Save cleaning the ground, etc.

Ann said...

Yep, they do have chicken coop "tractors" so you can move the mess around your yard. Not going there!