Many of you know that Dr. Myatt and Nurse Mark enjoy their life "in the country" – clean air, clean water, no sirens wailing or helicopters with spotlights hovering overhead, no crackle of gunfire, just the distant (and sometimes not-so-distant) sounds of coyotes howling… plenty of room for dogs and cats and chickens and goats… a garden, and a leaky old tractor… ahh… but I’m getting off-course…

A good friend recently sent us this, knowing we would get a chuckle from it, even though we are not in a part of the country that is "blessed" with ‘possums…

Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: To prove to the opossum that it could be done.

Dr. Myatt says:

I received this picture from a friend, titled "Why city folk shouldn’t move to the country."

Before we assume that it’s a hoax, let me tell you that my parents received a phone call late one evening from a panicked elderly neighbor. Seems the "biggest rat she’d ever seen" was in her garage. Not.

Here ’tis…

Know Why City Folk shouldn’t move to the Country?

(actual poster)

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