We have Up Island Eggs t-shirts, mostly for us to wear and we give them to friends, family and egg customers. Sort of a vanity plate kind of thing. So we were rather astonished to get a call today from someone who we had never met, who was desparate for an Up Island Eggs tee. When he came by, he said he had seen the shirt on someone (tall and gray haired, but he didn't know his name and that could be anyone). The caller lives up island in the summer and his family nickname is "egg" and he simply had to have a shirt. He said he was prepared to try to buy the tee off the guy the saw wearing it, but the guy had directed him to us. (I can hear Carl, who always predicted that we would become a tourist attraction, laughing.) We had a shirt his size, he came by, met the chickens and go the shirt. He didn't need eggs just then, but wants to become one of our regular customers because he knows the difference between a fresh free-range egg and the store bought ones.
The baby roosters (or really, just one of them, but I don't know which one) started crowing today. It is very cool here and we think it will be very pleasant for the Fair. Hope so!