Publisher's Synopsis
Many of us have been through it - the endless hassle that comes with selling your house and moving to a new home - but this true tale is like no other. In Countryfied Chickens you'll come along as the Elliotts, a Southern California family enjoying the good life of sunshine, palm trees and their own backyard swimming pool, pull up roots and move to a land where snow-blowers replace lawn-mowers, where tractors are more valued than BMWs and where deer routinely commit suicide by car. You'll be chuckling every step of the way as the author takes you through the series of mishaps and mis-steps the family experienced while selling their home and buying a bank-owned fixer-upper in what they thought was the Deal of the Century, but instead turned out to be their own back-to-work program for local contractors. Then, find out what life off the grid is really like, as the Elliotts settle into a time warp where there is no cell phone coverage, no high speed internet and where no pizza deliveryman will dare tread, no matter how big the tip. Along the way, you'll meet an interesting cast of characters including Barb the Boxer, perhaps the preeminent packer in all the Western United States, and Paul the Contractor, who looks and sings just like one of the Village People. And then there's Oscar the Apprentice Real Estate Agent, who walked right into a buzz saw when he attempted to negotiate with "The Bank." You'll also see how growing up in the "boonies" contrasts with city life as the author recounts childhood days in a small town where, instead of going to the mall, kids would build a raft and float on the local sewage lagoon; where local law enforcement conducted a modern-day Passover, sweeping up half the senior class because of one well-placed snitch; where nicknames and other foibles basically became part of high school transcripts. Countryfied Chickens has it all - it's a "fish-out-of-water" page-turner, guaranteed to keep you smiling from beginning to end.
