(Editor's Note: After fulfilling his breakfast-making duties, Jerry Robinson heads out to meet interesting people around town.)

Meet Shelly Freeman Herman

This vivacious lady is office manager of the Burien Elks and she has an amazing story to tell.

She was standing in a checkout line at a Home Depot behind an attractive guy, so she struck up a conversation. He was Bill Herman, a local contractor.

After checking out they both went their separate ways and when she got to her car she found a note under the windshield wiper. He had seen her park and fate had put them in the same line.

The note suggested he would like to meet her again someplace for coffee and contained his phone number.

His wife had passed away several years ago and she had been a divorcee for 13 years.

It was kismet. They started dating and they recently tied the knot.

An amazing set of circumstances led them both to believe it was kismet that brought them together.

Both had fathers named Bill.

Both had mothers named Josephine.

Both had brothers named Mike.

Both came from families of five children

He has an aunt named Maureen

Her middle name is Maureen

He has three girls and two boys

She has three boys and two girls

Both had fathers that worked at Boeing

It was luck and those curious signs from outer space that helped them decide they were meant for each other. She is 46 and he is 49. They were married in September.

They will live in Highline not far from Evergreen High where he went to school .

Sounds like fate to me. Good luck to you two lovebirds.

Meet Jim Mayes

He surrounds himself with chicks.

Do people still raise chickens here? You bet. Jim Mayes, owner of the feed and country store in Olde Burien says chickens are his top seller next to chicken feed.

The Highline area was once the home of numerous hatcheries but now most chicken lovers here have small lots and neighbors who tolerate the noisy rooster nearby.

Some customers raise chickens for the eggs, some for Sunday dinner, some for harking back to their youth. I had a pair of Buff Cochins that won second prize in a pet parade.

Jim sells Polish Dwarf rabbits also but these are mainly for pets.