Here's a good article link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062702386.html?referrer=emailarticle

Makes me feel like I am not so crazy with my choices. Although, I am donning my rubber boots for the umpteenth time in the last 3 weeks of pouring rain - this time its to free a chicken from the duck coop - not sure how it got in there, but somehow I think Evan was involved....