10th and Lawrence Streets, N.E. Washington D.C. 20017
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:20:34 -0400
Hello everyone!
Hope you all had a wonderful Easter! Congratulations, Elsie, on
your weight loss and exercise program, which must be in full swing by now
with all of the beautiful weather we are having. Bobby, I wondered if you
would run on that rainy Sunday we had--what a committment!
Marie, how old is your niece? I never got baby chicks at Easter as
a kid because we actualy kept livestock, including chickens, when I was a
youngster. In fact one of the earliest moments of terror I recall happened
when I was about 4 years old. I wanted to walk across the chicken yard to
my Mom but when I got about halfway across, the rooster jumped on my back,
claws digging into my skin and wings flapping madly. I stayed out of the
hen yard after that except for the time our neighbor pulled a gigantic rat
by his tail from behind the water trough. The rat had been feasting on our
hens!
A friend gave Willow a chick when she was about 5. Despite the
messiness of a chicken as a pet, she and Braden really liked the chick and
named it Claire Clucker. I intended to build a hen house for her but
before I had a chance, Claire was nabbed from the inverted play pen where
she spent her outdoors time by a fox. All that remained was a couple of
feathers! Poor Claire!
Currently we have a three-legged cat named Tripod, who lives
outside in the garage due to my allergies and a Cockateil named Henry. We
are at an all-time low for pets, having had several deaths of old pets in
the last year or two. We always seem to get give-aways or strays so I
suspect more will come to live here in future, even if we don't actively
seek them.
Rose