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Last Pizza in the Coop

Spring Chicken
Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
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After June 14th, the Coop will be just another back yard Gazebo. 

Now that it has been denuded of its many trinkets and charms brought by customers over the years it is already a far cry from its glory days as the only Chicken Coop built especially for wayward Big Green Egg 'Girls' in Spring Texas USA. 

Although it still functions as an outdoor kitchen, now with only two former 'Girls,' Lulu Large and Maggi Mini, who will soon to be owned by a new Egghead who is eager to learn The way of the Egg, it's 'our' outdoor kitchen. 

And being totally unaccustomed to being idle for very long, Lulu was at the ready when I suggested that I could let her help me cook a Saturday night favorite, a pizza. This one: 

 

 

 

Yes Lulu, you can now scratch one more customer (me) off your list of satisfied customers. 

Meanwhile, Spring Hen and I are only 11 days away from being Chicken Ranchless. 

Who would ever have thunk it? 

Oh, and the pizza was outstanding. Lulu went all out to please us. She did good in spite of her tears. 

Spring "The Last Pizza Is The One Just Before The Next Pizza" Chicken 
Spring Texas USA
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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,173
    A quality tribute to greatness.
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

    Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,527
    A good send off 
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • TN_Sister_State
    TN_Sister_State Posts: 1,130
    Awesome way to say goodbye, enjoy your new adventures in life.
    Franklin, Tn
    LBGE - Cast Iron Grate - Flameboss 300 - BGEtisserie

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,455
    Great epilogue, Leroy! Thanks for sharing it with us.

    I'm betting that cool dinner bell stays with the new owner, huh? BTW is that an antique? I have an old, antique cow bell which hangs in our screened porch. It reminds me of my childhood days at the cabin on a lake in IA where cows roamed free all summer. Those dull clanging sounds often woke us at day break when it was time to go wet some hooks and run the lines! 
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    edited June 2017
    RRP said:
    Great epilogue, Leroy! Thanks for sharing it with us.

    I'm betting that cool dinner bell stays with the new owner, huh? BTW is that an antique? I have an old, antique cow bell which hangs in our screened porch. It reminds me of my childhood days at the cabin on a lake in IA where cows roamed free all summer. Those dull clanging sounds often woke us at day break when it was time to go wet some hooks and run the lines! 
    Nope!  The bell you are probably talking about is the most recent one to the Coop.  It was a gift from a guy and his wife who moved to Spring over a year ago.  He happened to be advertising an Egg nest for a Large and I needed one. He happened to own another brand ceramic grill but we got to talking and he said, "Here, you might want this too."  And a few other items, including a stainless steel Daisy Wheel.  

    He told me the story of how he came by the bell while working for a bar while in college.  The bell was rang when a customer left a sizable tip.  When the bar closed, he asked for the bell.

    Needless to say, I kinda changed the story a bit to work with the Chicken Ranch theme.  My version is that I discovered it in a Gay Bar in Houston.  But in reality, it was the 'ship's bell ' on a ship that navigated the Great Lakes way, way back.  It really has a great tone to it and echos all across the neighborhood when I rang it.

    There are two other wall-mounted bells that we had before that.  One we bought and one sent to us by a Chicken Ranch Fan in Canada.  We left the Canadian one in the Coop.  The other two are following us to Lousiana.  I think I may change to story about the ship's bell though.




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