A colleague of mine who works on a local music show knows Larry Thomas, the actor who played the Soup Nazi on the Seinfeld show. David was in the neighborhood over the weekend, and a bunch of the show staff were going up to shoot a segment with him. They invited me to come along and rub elbows, but (having never gotten, let alone watched, Seinfeld) I begged off, insisting I had a full weekend ahead of me.

And I did. Instead of hobnobbing with the Soup Nazi, I toted 8 wheelbarrows full of manure (a tasty mixture of goat and chicken) to my Father-In-Law's garden, dumping it, then spreading it around and raking it. Also did a bunch of the usual weekend chicken errands, such as cleaning out the nest boxes and knocking down barn swallow nests.

Counting from the beginning of the month, we collected 14 eggs this week. Counting from last Sunday, we collected 21.

No word on whether any of the chooks would have wanted to meet Larry Thomas.

Correction: I revised this post because I found out that the Soup Nazi's last name is Thomas, not David as I had originally said. Larry David, I think, was associated with the Seinfeld show in another way (the inspiration for George, I think). That's what I get for not being a Seinfeldophile.