I am amazed at what my wife sometimes gets me to do. Her latest obsession has been about chickens. The first week we had them, I had bought two from the Aggie Feed Store (whose facilities were simly atrociously filthy), and within that first week they both died from respiratory illnesses. Here's the punchline: I mourned for both of those birds, painfully. Why? It's my love of life, in the end that kicked me. Mere days later, I had gone to the outskirts of Greenville, Tx. to acquire two or three more healthy free-range birds (two ameracaunas, one black australorp). I'm actually proud of thes little creatures. First day they were with us one of the ameracaunas gave us a couple of little blue-green eggs! One of them I'm naming Cathy (she's chatty), and the australorp I think I'll name Isis. The other one has a real fancy hairdo like Cara Fayah from Shiny Toy Guns......Helga? Heide? Hmmm...