Sparky~ I would send you some of the rain but somehow I dont think it would work like you would want it to, lol, it would probably dump out over the rockies and then we would both be without! I will admit that most years we have rain from the beginning/middle of October until around July fourth so we might be able to share. Now I dont want you to think that is a constant 9 months of rain, we get breaks in the rain, they are called showers!<grin>
I am sorry to hear about your well. I have always been fortunate to live where water is readily available, or at least accessible with a bit more well. When we lived on the other side of the mountains, that would be the East side of the Cascades, there were people who lived 60-80 miles from where we were that didnt have water. EVER! They paid for the water and hauled it each week to where they lived! They put it in HUGE tanks or cisterns. They didnt have wells because either the water table was too deep to reach economically or there just wasnt a water table in the area. A friend used to joke that if they drilled for a water they would reach magma before they hit water! Coming from over here on the West side of the Cascades where water is plentiful(sometimes TOO plentiful) most of the time, I was totally flabergasted by such things!
Anyway, hope your well recharges soon and that the weather cooperates with some rain or at least less heat!
I really love that little South Am. Composite hen-she is the same one that Renee' has pics of looking broody in a corner somewhere, isnt she? If you look at prior posts to this thread and look on the closed thread for Yashar's auction for South American hatching eggs you will see pics of Renee's floozy hen, Houdina, her offspring Lavender and Bandit(from our first hatch) and Libra and Houdini(from our second hatch). I really like the look of them all. You are right that these South Ams are all different but very attractive! I must admit that I love the look of Houdina, but I really love that little speckled hen pic of Renee's. Your Plumes look lovely, I think I want some....but I guess I better get the house built before they come....we better not tell the DH that if he builds it they will come or I wont get anything built for animals ever again!
Of the South Ams and land races, I really like the Sweet Potatoes and the Huastecs that Yashar has, lol, and the pearl and Snowy Nikkei's that Renee has, and the Plumes that you have would fit right in with their looks even if their genetics are a from elsewhere. Dang! I think I may have to do some chicken math! But I think it will have to wait until another time, as I am feeling the pull of sleepy time now....more current pics of the crosses soon....if the weather cooperates.