something really funny happened tonight. . .

Welp, unlike most, I am oddly surrounded by extended family.

A very funny cousin lives across the road. A while ago, he had turkeys whose wings he never clipped, in temporary mercy . So they repeatedly fluttered out of their pen, and wandered the neighborhood incessantly. They were forever cruising.

One day, a couple years ago, I was driving my kid to school and we saw a turkey parade walking in "lock step fashion" in front of an 18 wheeler. The expression on the trucker's face was priceless. He was so totally exasperated..

Anyway, my funny cousin gave up raising turkeys because their excrement was virtually impossible to eliminate from thr souls of his shoes.

So he then concentrated on chickens.

He just harvested a batch of them. My mom had us over for dinner. The bird was delicious and of a perfect texture. Yet by the tail bone was a substance that resembled something one would normally see within a lobster. It was totally green.

I said, "I'm gonna call my cousin." My mom said, "No don't upset him." I said, "No, he'll be interested in the science involved."

My son bellowed from upstairs, "Just ask him why he is trying to kill us all ???"

I called my cousin. He totally got the joke.

It was too funny but all too poignant.

"Why are they trying to kill us all indeed?"

that coats an egg with oil to seal it when it is laid... this may not have been removed and may be your culprit. Extend family is the yin and yang of life. Mine gives me both great joy and displeasure all in the same moment.

honey. Just think it was funny is all.