Oh Skiekitty....'Blazing Saddles' is an awesome iris! ....and on another note, I love the sound of a rooster crowing. It is a 'home' sound. I have always had chickens and cows until the city moved out and I was 'grandfathered in'. In other words I could keep my stock because I had had it for ages but no one else could start raising stock. One spring in the 80's we had a tornado come through and take out barns, stock and chickens. we found our cattle but did not have feed or a place for them so we sold them. we could not get any more. All I had left was one bantam rooster. He began roosting in an arborvitae right outside my window where I sat in the evening and read or rocked babies. He and I became very good friends and he was a good 'watch rooster'. Since moving to Perry County I live with wolves, coyotes, snakes, bears, panthers and I recently had an email from the game and fish commission saying that I could shoot wild hogs anytime and without a hunting license. So, no chickens in my future. I will fill it with irises.
