Brianna  is devoted to birds; birds of all kinds; birds of all sizes, but especially the kind of birds that live in hen houses. She has had a variety of banty hens and specialty roosters and has loved each one of them. She is intrigued by their personalities and has always taken great delight and taking their pictures! In fact that was her sole purpose in owning a camera. She looks forward to each and every issue of the Game Bird Gazette like her sister looks forward to her horse magazine. She has had a variety of quail over the years. Bob whites are they cutest and she found chukars rather hard to manage. At the moment she has button quail. When we left for Africa she had two pairs. One of the little hens swallowed a string and now there are 1 and half pairs, so how did we end up with 9 buttons?

Brianna has a special bond with a  lady who shares the same attraction for birds that she has. Grandma Wallace shared her love of button quail with Bri... and she took very good care of them while we were in Africa, (the string was pure accident!) and when we went to pick up the birds they had somehow multiplied and there are six tiny little chicks. I think it might be a good thing that not all 2 dozen eggs in the incubator hatched.

While we were in Africa Brianna saw some fabric with chickens on them. Right away she thought of Grandma Wallace. Then when we saw the salad tongs with little chickens carved on the top we knew they belonged with the fabric. I was tired of bargaining so Teresa had to "joy" of getting the price down to reasonable. She was successful and the fabric made a nice apron as you can see.