“Meet at the
church on 7th between the hours of 5:30 and 7:00. Bring money.”
It was a turkey-deal.
I had to
laugh after the fowl drama we had been having, for after I ordered a thanksgiving
turkey grass fed, organic, and a 4H project, he didn’t show up. So on
Thanksgiving eve I drove into town to a Natural Grocery and bought another. Not
quite the purity of the first but good.
At 7:30 I
figured my turkey lady was a no show.
At 8:00 she
called to tell me she was running late and had been out of cell range.
Whoops. I hope
she has a big freezer.
As for the fowl
at-home. I saw an “Eggs for sale” sign, and figured—wise deducer that I am—that she had chickens. I drove to
her house and met the most wonderful woman. At first she wasn’t interested in having
another rooster, since she had three already, but decided she would take him, plus
my hens if I had to part with them. "The other roosters might beat him up," she said, "but I'll watch out for him." She called two days ago and told me he was doing fine.”
What a
woman! I loved meeting her.
Last Monday
I visited the City Hall to ask about keeping my two back-yard hens. They said
that if anyone complains they would send someone to my house, and give me a
warning. Then I would have to handle it.
I left
believing that my neighbor would complain. BUT, as I entered my driveway about one
half hour later, there she was, apologizing if she had hurt my feelings and
said she wouldn’t complain if I kept them from smelling.
Quite an
about face.
All’s well
that ends well.
Thus ends my
chicken saga.
And now my book saga:
I’m thinking
of re-naming my book, Don’t Tell Mommy,
making a new cover, and publishing it on Amazon.com. If I had done that in the
first place I would have saved a ton of money, and the Amazon.com site allows the
author to change the title, cover, and do some dinking with the content. Wow.
I feel the
old cover and title is too titillating and does not sufficiently honor the
woman who innocently wrote the majority of the letters printed in the book—my mother.
The new
title will be
Two Sides
A mother’s dream / A daughter’s
secret
A book of Letters
