Nadine Story - "Nadine and her chickens"

Nadine is 82 yrs old and born right here in this area in Missouri.  She loves her chickens.  Every couple of years, her hens get old and stop layin' those eggs.  So she gets new chicks, puts them in a cage on her dining room table, with a light on them and keeps them their until they are big enough to put out in the chicken house.  She talks to them everyday and calls them "my girls."  She says they listen to her because sometimes they get to fightin' so she yells at them and they stop fightin'. 

Well, Nadine and her daughter, Gale, spent most of the mornin' catchin' up the old hens and puttin' them into cages.  She told Gale she had called the "chicken man" and she can bring them tuesdays, fridays and Saturdays.   It's not easy to catch those old hens. You have to use long hooks and hook them by the neck and grab their feet while their wings are a floppin' and they are a screamin'.  Okay, so it is Saturday and they are all caged up.  Off they go to Mount Vernon (1 hr drive).  Gale asked Nadine what the address is and Nadine says, "just turn down this road, it's somewhere 'round here."  Well, they kept a drivin' and a drivin' and turnin' down more roads and a drivin'.  It is gettin' darker and darker.  Now it is DARK and they are still a drivin' and the temperature in the truck cab is heatin' up and it's not because of the heat outside.  Finally, Nadine says, "STOP, we're here."   No lights on the house down this dirt road, no signs saying it was a chicken processing business, just a dark farm house.  Nadine gets out and says, "Let's unload these girls and set them right here on the back porch."  As you might imagine, Gale was pissed and not feeling good about this location.  Nadine takes a position with her daughter, told her to get to unloadin' those chickens.  They unloaded the 40 chickens and drove off. 

Gale says she is sure they just left the chickens on some stranger's back porch.  The next mornin', Nadine got a call and it was the chicken people sayin' her chickens were processed and ready to be picked up. 

SOMETIMES THESE OLD COUNTRY FOLKS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKIN' 'BOUT. What a character she is.