Flamingos in The Chimney

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When has a flamingo ever had the chance to get itself into a chimney?

Flamingos live in Miami. And down on The Amazon River. They cavort through turquoise water in places that don’t have chimneys.

Audubon Flamingo

And if one did make its way up to a northern, chimney-built house, how would it ever fit its gangly legs into a narrow, sooty chute anyway?

That is the image that comes to mind when I hear the title phrase of this post. A giant, pink, Ichabod Crane of a bird deciding which part of its body should fit in first for a successful chimney insertion. Its clean, bright flamingo pinkness now smudged…