After being away for awhile, I think I am finally ready to start posting again. Moving to the new house was an event I wouldn't want to repeat on a regular basis. The new house is great, and I am happy as hell to be here. The neighborhood is very nice and quiet, something we didn't have at the old place. Our backyard is woods, with no houses behind us and we have seen some wild turkeys sashaying thru the yard looking for breakfast. Sometimes there are only one or two, sometimes there are five or six. You don't realize just how big these birds are until you get close. The cats are in their glory with all this new territory to explore and are gone for hours at a time checking out the woods.
We got up one morning a couple of weekends ago, to find several turkeys pecking around at the top of the hill. Both cats were out and I was nervous as hell that Tigger would have his hunter/killer instincts kick in and he would charge into the middle of he flock and end up torn to shreds. He was smart enough to sit quietly and just observe, phew! He is the one that tends to have more balls than brains, so you can imagine what must be going thru his mind looking at all that bird.
The other day the turkeys were coming down over the hill behind the house after the rain we had gotten on top of the snow, and it was quite a sight! They would walk a couple of steps and fall on their asses, get up and try again! They managed to make it into the neighbors yard, where it slopes down toward their shed and they got to the point where gravity took over and they just gave up and just went with the flow. If you have never seen turkeys take a dump on their butts, it's a sight to see. I laughed for hours over the memory. I wish I had a video camera to record the action.
It's almost time for camping to begin, we seasonals are chomping at the bit to get up there and get set up to go. This year we are moving to a new site and have all kinds of work to do, It will be worth it since we love being there, seeing our friends and relaxing. Hoping for warm, dry weather to speed up the melting. I wonder if anyone knows how to do a sun dance?
We got up one morning a couple of weekends ago, to find several turkeys pecking around at the top of the hill. Both cats were out and I was nervous as hell that Tigger would have his hunter/killer instincts kick in and he would charge into the middle of he flock and end up torn to shreds. He was smart enough to sit quietly and just observe, phew! He is the one that tends to have more balls than brains, so you can imagine what must be going thru his mind looking at all that bird.
The other day the turkeys were coming down over the hill behind the house after the rain we had gotten on top of the snow, and it was quite a sight! They would walk a couple of steps and fall on their asses, get up and try again! They managed to make it into the neighbors yard, where it slopes down toward their shed and they got to the point where gravity took over and they just gave up and just went with the flow. If you have never seen turkeys take a dump on their butts, it's a sight to see. I laughed for hours over the memory. I wish I had a video camera to record the action.
It's almost time for camping to begin, we seasonals are chomping at the bit to get up there and get set up to go. This year we are moving to a new site and have all kinds of work to do, It will be worth it since we love being there, seeing our friends and relaxing. Hoping for warm, dry weather to speed up the melting. I wonder if anyone knows how to do a sun dance?
posted by Regina, a forty something mother of two that refuses to grow up at 10:21 AM
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