View from the North 40: It's like a fortune just flew in and poohed on my car

I am sitting on a gold mine or, more specifically, I’m fixin’ to hatch me a gold mine.

Those stinkin’ pigeons in my barn that I’ve been complaining about for years? They could be worth money, real money, like really real money, according to an article in Reuters.

In November, a 2-year-old racing pigeon from Belgium sold at auction for — are you sitting down? You should be sitting down for this because the pigeon sold for $1.89 million.

One point eight nine MILLION dollars. For a stinkin’ pigeon. And I have a barn full of them doing nothing with their lives but breedin’, f...