"With me it's more that I keep changing houses -- I'll live one place for a while, then another," Lucy says. "I've got a case of wanderlust that won't quit for anything." She giggles. "Well, on the list of secret pets, a canary is on the low end of the bad scale."

She grimaces, leaning a little closer. "Are you all right? I saw the--" She waves her hand in the general area on her own head.