What came next and next...

Since moving out of Austin, we have cared for a pair of hens: Lisselle and Frightful, procured as adult hens from a feed store September of 2018. They graced our backyard and were allowed to forage all day, without supervision. How trusting my daughter and I were. They went missing once, and Liselle went missing once again on her own, but return unharmed both times. They were killed on different nights by the neighbor's dog or a racoon almost two years after we named them and started loving them. No hens were to be had until we moved into a new home. It took some time to warm up to the idea. Our third year in the new house we went to the feed store and brought home six little chicks.