I would like to point out that I don't actually COLLECT flamingoes -- it's just that I'm a flamingo magnet.

It all started back in the early '80s when I had some flamingo jewelry and made an offhand remark to Curmudgeon that I thought it would be a nice idea if we had somewhere between 100 and 250 pink plastic flamingoes (cuz everyone knows less than a 100 is tacky) going up and down the driveway --with little white Christmas tree lights strung between them. And the cats could sell postcards and people would come from as far away as...Epping, NH (next town over).

Then he started giving me flamingoes, and other people started giving me flamingoes.

I actually did get a boxed set of the original Featherstone flamingoes made in Massachusetts for my birthday this year.

Linn