Most normal Flues are bird flus that come from Asia, they may mutate slightly in the US but they all do the majority of there changing in birds and hop the species barrior over in asia then come here. You know what deaseas kills most of the people exposed to bird flu, salmonella! nTreat your flock like you would a sick person down aat the office and you should be fine, just don't let youy kids go and play with the birds. We Identified H5 in the 50's and in mutated to H5N1 in the late 90's, its had ten years of migrations to cross the pacific but it has failed to, so why are we so worried that it will this year? MEdia Hype, I've heard lots of people say "its not if but when" the truth is its still if, Unfortunately when bird get sick they don't show many symptoms except death, So if your chickens all die heres a hint, don't hold a funeral! Beyond that theres not much we can do, because we are about tenthousand times more likely to catch H5N1 from some guy down at the office than we are to catch it from birds that we don't share a keyboard or phone with. Oh, and don't assume that because the CDC says something its true, I was listening to the Radio last night and I heard about the hog flu epidemic some years back, the Army was tracking it for research purposes and the CDC found out, issued a press conference about it, 60,000 people got vaccinated in the next few weeks, a good number of them had adverse side effects from the vacine, One person died from the actuall thing, one.

We should all look so good when we're 120! *Hijack alert* Hey I just found out that my beautiful leather garage sale find wasn't actually leather at all, it was naugahyde, and the old guy who I brought it to for reuplostering wanted $325 to re-cover it, re-tie the springs and re-do the webbing. He had some naugahyde in stock that was soft enough to "mark" when you sat on it, that is actually desirable to us crazies. And he would re-tack it, it has brass tacks too. Am I totally insane, not just a little touched? Is that a good deal, or do I need a rest in a little white room?? **back to our regularly scheduled program**

http://www.studiotreasure.com/articles/interior/Wall-Art.htm Graywings, I just googled how wide should a picture be, and found a couple decorators opinions saying 1/2-2/3. I hung the picture today, and cleared off the ledge. Big 50 party in two days, maybe I should start focusing on entertaining !! Thanks for everyones help. I will get back to decorating next week. Right now I'm looking for some strong men to dissassemble 4 pieces of reclining leather and move it to the basement, I don't think thats going to happen before Saturday either!!

It looks to be in the French provincial style and is a beautiful piece. Whether to keep it or not would depend on the rest of the house and the overall feel your going for. My only concern would be that sofas are such a dominant element in a room, you really want it to match the "your" style. Otherwise you will be fighting to incorporate this beautiful, but different piece into your scheme. As you know, decorating is hard enough without your hands being tied on the major elements in the room. You should look at some other French provincial inspired rooms to get a better feel for the style and see if it meets your tastes.