… meeting of the Garrett Park Town Council last night, UD perked up when the town administrator announced that one of UD‘s neighbors would be raising chickens — building a chicken coop in her backyard. All of the townspeople gathered in the Town Hall perked up.
Most of the meeting had been about important things – revisions to our land use ordinance in particular. Yet watching the Town Council eke out its new language word for word (“Is it possible to have a roofless oriel?”) was trying for those of us in attendance (regular readers know that UD reports on Garrett Park’s monthly Town Council meetings for the Bugle, the town paper), while hearing about chickens sent a thrill through the room.
Chickens! When Les UDs bought their Garrett Park house, they found the remains of two chicken coops at the top of their property, and for one mad moment thought about repairing and using them…
After the meeting was over, UD chatted outside the Town Hall (it was a dark wet night; it had been a dark wet afternoon, the sort that deepens the already deep green of the town’s rampant gardens and trees) with Chris, our last mayor.
“Chickens!” said UD. “But won’t that just encourage our foxes?”
“The more encouragement the better,” he answered. “We’re overrun with rabbits.”
May 15th, 2012 at 3:26PM
Many roosters never get the memo about crowing at dawn. They crow 24/7.
May 15th, 2012 at 4:23PM
Meanwhile, in Florida:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/03/2780932/florida-man-who-couldnt-take-his.html
May 15th, 2012 at 7:08PM
Anonymous: LOL.
May 16th, 2012 at 5:56AM
Obligatory link to Bill Grimes’ magnificent essay, “It Came. It Clucked. It Conquered.”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/living/21CHIC.html