The logo for this website was designed by Karla Rovatti Palmer, my best friend in high school. She is a fantastic designer, working for some gigantic financial company in the Boston area. Karla – who is as much of a city/suburb girl as I ever was – visited us at the old place. The chickens loved her (who doesn’t love her). In the photo, she is holding Babette, perhaps my favorite chicken of all time. Babette was scrappy – she didn’t take any crap from any bird big or small. She was with me for 5+ years, surviving a hawk attack and an overly aggressive rooster who would claw her back open. Unfortunately an opossum eventually got her, but I’d like to think she gave him a few good pecks before she went.

My favorite (non-chicken) memory from Karla’s visit was throwing an old couch into the back of the pickup truck and headout off to the Broadway Drive-In in Burns, Tenn. Karla and I rode in the back, on the couch, waving 4th of July lights at passing cars. Kids, traveling on a couch in a pick up on a highway is not recommended, and I am sure we would have been arrested in other states on some safety violation. But it was so much fun!

Anyhoo Karla, thanks again for the logo, and Mozart is indeed the best composer of all time.