Actual real-life dialogue from my house this morning, as I saw Julie perusing something on the computer:
Me: "What are you looking at?"Her: "I made a deal with a horse farm to pick up some horse manure."
Silence.
Her: "What?"
Me (passive-aggressively): "Oh, nothing."
Her: "What, you don't want the soil in our backyard to be fertile, so we can grow things?"
Me: "No, I was just wondering how horse manure was going to make the minivan smell."
Her (snippily): "I'll take care of it. You don't have to worry about it."
Me: "I bet David Brooks doesn't have these conversations in the morning with his wife."
Her: "David Brooks married a rabbi. If that's what you wanted to marry, you should have gone out and got you one!"
Me: "May I quote you on the blog."
Her (Queen Latifah-like): "I wish you would."
I suspect it's also the case that David Brooks doesn't have three young chickens living in his laundry room, unlike certain conservative, increasingly Clampett-like conservative columnists I could name.
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I wonder if First Sergeant would notice three wee little chickens in a barracks room? ;)
My time will come soon enough. Now I just to find a day job, not sure I'm going to be able to support myself entirely off the land. ;)
Congratulations on the chickens!! Please do a post on this sometime and let us know the details.
for some odd reason the theme from Green Acres started playing in my head as I read this post. Can't wait for Arnold and Mr. Ziffle to show up
Someone may have already alerted you to this, but be aware that horse manure tends not to kill off weed seeds like cow manure. Better to get composted cow manure from a local stockyards. Often with horse manure, even of the composted variety, you'll end up with various pasture weeds in your yard as a result. And be aware that any manure - composted or not - does, indeed, stink and attracts flies.
I love Julie! "You better believe it" (Queen LaTifah style)
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