Fowl Smell (Recipe Added)

My evening started out like any other. Went outside to feed the girls. Took my camera to take pictures.

Pepper was enjoying her photo shoot when I got a whiff of something...something foul. I figured Pepper had killed a critter and I hadn't found it. But the smell was intense and widespread. No matter where I walked around the place, it was there. What on earth?! Then it hit me....the neighbor! I haven't blogged much about our neighbors. They are very nice people but special none the less. The one and only time I blogged about them was here.

Anyhow, back to the smell. I remembered the husband saying something about the neighbor waiting for his chicken POOP to be delivered. The neighbor fertilizes people's fields with it. Usually though, he has it delivered to the farm where he's spreadin' it.

So I decided to go do some investigating. The dogs and I headed down the road in search for chicken poop. It didn't take long to find this...

Mounds of chicken poop! (Downwind from our house!)

The dogs thought they hit the mother load of all stinky piles. It was a poop palooza. They couldn't decide where to roll, there were too many good spots. The smell was horrible. But I had to get pics for my blogger peeps! Nothing less for y'all!

I finally managed to wrangle the dogs away from the chicken poop to head back home. I was just glad the neighbor wasn't home to witness me taking pictures of his poop piles. Imagine explaining that one!

As I walked back up my drive, I realized I was forgetting something...I had pies baking in the oven!! I ran to the house hoping they weren't burnt. Luckily, my poop escapade stopped just short of burning my pies.

See...

It's called the Knock Your Socks Off Buttermilk Pie! Found it in the Texas Co-op magazine and thought I would try it. Let me know if you want the recipe and I'll post it. It's very good but oh so very bad!

Who knew this post would go from chicken crap to buttermilk pie?!

Okay ladies, here is the recipe:

2 3/4 cups sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

3 tbsp flour

3/4 cup margarine, melted

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

1/2 cup crushed graham crackers

3/4 cup chopped pecans

2 9-inch pie crusts, unbaked

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl, mix together sugar and eggs; add vanilla and flour. Stir in margarine and buttermilk. Do not beat. Fold in crushed graham crackers and pecans. Pour into pie crusts, dividing mixture evenly between the two. Bake 45 minutes or until center of each pie is firm when tested with a knife.

1 slice: 745 calories!! We won't worry about that though!