For The Birds

Recently, my daughter told me about an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the family had been living in a chicken coop. Much to her surprise, I told her that her grandparents had once lived in chicken coop.

During World War II my Grandpa John was stationed in Fallon, Nevada. Naval housing was in short supply, so he, my Grandma Eva, and my Aunt John lived in a converted chicken coop. I told my Dad how suprised my daughter was by this fact. Later, my Dad looked at some old photographs that he had scanned into the computer and e-mailed me one of the chicken coop.

I can not imagine living in a chicken coop in Nevada, but they all made do.