Definitely English! Although I'm one of those where my accent is good so people think I'm a native speaker for the first couple of minutes of conversation, just not from their country, ja ja. They didn't know I needed hearing aids when I was born so learning to hear and speak English properly when I was fitted (around age 5) was a laborious endeavor for several years with speech therapists, etc. We just didn't put that kind of effort towards Spanish later, so English remains my most comfortable language.

As Philadelphia Orch's composer-in-residence, you are right in that I don't actually live there. I just go there to work with the symphony.

As for chickens that I raise in Mendocino County, my husband likes to call them Mendo-mestizas (with mestiza meaning "mixed race"). We started off with Cream Legbars and silkies, and have been breeding blends of these ever since -- Lovely, friendly birds that go broody so we have built-in nannies/moms when it's time to hatch another flock of chicks. Good layers, too, not really meat birds.