Requiem for a Hen

Although we live in a city, we keep hens. Our very first egg was laid and eaten on Ash Wednesday 2012. The hen that laid that first egg died today.

Violet de Pistachio was preceded in death by her sister, Vera, who died on Thanksgiving day, 2012. She is survived by five members of her flock at Paradise Towers.

She was old for a hen, and it had been quite some time since she’d stopped laying. The freezing cold and snows of the last week were apparently just too much for her. She will be missed.

I’ve no idea whether animals are in heaven – even the Doctors of the Church could not agree on this particular point – but we commend Violet to the mercy of God under the watchful eye of Santo Domingo de la Calzada.

Santo Domingo, pray for us!