my catalog had not come but Just In The Nick of Time...Lace Lady had sent me hers and it arrived and also an Email from Baker Creek:
For 24 hours Noon CST January 25 to Noon January 26 Baker Creek will donate 100% of all seed orders to World Help to provide humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. Even if it's just seeds for your flower box on the window sill
and then...she has almost recovered her usual self from the winter moulting...lookin snazzy and who knows, she might come back from her annual self lay off and even lay an egg? she will be 5 this year having made it through yet another weeks of Atmospheric River sleeping every night on her twig.