Chickens- or rather chicks have arrived thanks to Miss A. C christened them Patrice and Charlene. He wanted tough jailbird names with the added mix of fecundity. We want these ladies to produce! J came up with Charlene. C had been saving "Patrice" for his bulldog....



No doubt they are his ladies as C fusses over them. Takes 'em out for fresh air, cleans the cages. There is no guarantee they are not roosters which would be very sad. Roosters are illegal in Berkeley, so they can be arrested and sent behind bars until deportation to Marin or some such county more friendly to roosters.



Yesterday my cousin died in a gratuitous car accident. He was 26. He had a prior car accident at age 13.



C and I labored for a hexagonal turtle pen for Meatball today. C hammered his shin by accident. Meatball after being released from his old compost box got very excited and starting cooking along the edge of the fence. Poor fellow. No escape is possible of course.