[Mikendebbie]

Our neighbor on the north side is bird crazy. She has maybe 50 chickens (seemingly every type on earth), 50 ducks and geese, 3 peacocks, 5 turkeys and a big group of guineas. She keeps them in a large half acre fenced yard…lots of trees, water troughs and some kiddie pools for the ducks to play in. We enjoy watching them - the guineas are funny, always walking around outside the fence. The low sound of the quacking, crowing and clucking is comforting - sounds like what what my grandmothers place sounded like when I was a kid. Luckily the prevailing winds in Central Texas come from the southeast (Gulf of Mexico) 10-11 months of the year, blowing any odors away from us. Occasionally we can smell the crew when the wind shifts out of the north, but a bad smell is rare. They have some dogs in a separate large pen that do a good job of keeping the coyotes away.