Ode to Rhoda My Little Red Hen by Jacquelyn Jardine Meyers Three years ago, around March 17th, 2019, we brought home our little Rhoda Roo. She was a pretty little chick, our first Rhode Island Red. Just a few days freshly hatched from the egg, we also brought home with her, a Delaware breed, who would become our Goosie Dellaroo. They were two chickie peas in a pod, and they grew and grew. Scratching and clucking, they did everything together. Rhoda would lay her first little egg around August of that same year. In the summer of 2020, Brig and I took a trip to Yellowstone National Park for Brig’s first visit, and I’d not been there since I was a teenager. Under the loving watch of another, and we cast no fault, Rhoda’s sister Goosie passed away from an unknown cause while we were gone on that trip. Rhoda was sad, but brave with Goosie now gone, and soon she would be dealing with a battle against mites, but she would be a gallant little hen, peaceful and resolute, n