visiting turkey at our house

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Not only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it now. What an eventful place we live in! lol SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.

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aaah can I play with my rainstick - provided that I can find it God, grant me the strength of eagles wings, the faith and courage to fly to new heights, and the wisdom to rely on his spirit to carry me there.

To: Group <mserslife >Sent: Fri, April 15, 2011 12:17:27 PMSubject: visiting turkey at our house

Not only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it now. What an eventful place we live in! lol

SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.

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Another turkey to add to the

flock Sharon.. how cool is that.. wild to boot.. I'd bet she's

looking to be trying to sit soon.. kind of makes me wonder if

they aren't smarter than people think as well.. and that they

know full well they need a male to help them get chicks.. are

baby turkeys called chicks.. I don't think so.. turkling

wouldn't be correct either... hmmm.. where did I leave that

shifter for my brain???

Oh.. the outside activity has started here as well.. This time

it was Mr. Cardinal that came to tap on the living room window..

to let me (only I wasn't out here, it was .. this past

Sunday morning).. know that there was no seed in the feeder, and

that there was no bowl of seed on the Air Conditioner (keep it

there in the winter, so the birdies are up close for me to

watch).. So he filled the feeder on the fence..

A few of the Sputzies are back.. haven't seen the sparrows or

the Mourning Doves yet.. Did see Mr. Bluejay... and one of my

squirrels was on the A/C this morning.. twice.. looking for food

(maybe he found some of the seed that was knocked into a vent

during the winter though, and that's why he was back twice)..

One of the other squirrels was helping themselves to the

sunflower seeds in the feeder yesterday & today.. wasn't the

same squirrel because the one on the A/C unit has a thin scrawny

sad looking tail.. the one of the feeder has the big bushy

tail.. but I'm not sure which of the bushy tails he was..

At least one of them made a home for the winter in my

roof/kitchen ceiling... someone should have gotten up and put

the flashing or soffitt or fascia or whatever it's called BACK

up after the wind blew it down last summer.. but because they

didn't do that.. and the home was made.. and the winter store of

nuts & berries and seed and whatever else it is that

squirrels collect all summer were stored up there.. he wasn't

allowed to fix it in the winter.. and cause my buddies to starve

because they couldn't get to those stores.. AND they had already

planned their winter home up there.. so nope.. not shutting them

out until spring.. [yes, my son, Earl, said "Tell me that again,

when your house burns down because they gnawed through some wire

up there].. And I wasn't concerned about them wintering over up

there.. well at least not until they started adding on to their

winter home.. and expanding from the kitchen, through the

laundry room into my master bathroom.. and I believe maybe a

small path to the opposite corner of my bedroom as well.. THEN I

started to worry a bit.. and when I'd hear them somewhere other

than, and sometimes even, the kitchen.. I'd grab the broom and

start tapping the ceiling or the walls with it to make them

behave and move back to their original starting place and quit

chewing, scratching or gnawing or whatever it was they were

doing!.. LOL.. but I still wouldn't let anybody climb up and

close that spot off.. All I could imagine was my poor little

critters starving to death outside in the cold & snow.. or

inside up in my ceiling because they couldn't get out to get a

drink (and I could only imagine the odor, if they did die up in

there, come summer)...

Now that the weather is nicer, and the squirrels will be

starting to collect for next winter... he can get up there (and

had better) and fix the spot while the squirrels are out and

about.. so they aren't counting on my ceiling as their winter

home this year..

I've got a opossum out there too.. pretty sure he lives or

sleeps behind the shed and uses the "growth" (wild maple trees,

raspberry bushes, grape vines & Rhododendrons) growing on

the other side of the fence, as his playground.. Zucco finds him

and chases him off every chance he gets when he's outside.. I've

never seen him, but has.. Zucco knows exactly where to find

him.. fortunately he can't get to the back of the shed (or the

opossum would likely tear him up a bit).. but he does make the

opossum scramble for the other side of the fence.. and I think

he stands there and blows raspberries at Zucco.. cause he knows

that Zook can't get him on that side of the fence. (neighborhood

cats do the same to him).

I really wish that I lived in a place like you do Sharon.. I'd

have saltlicks out for the deer.. might even feed them corn.. or

plant some that I () didn't harvest, for them to winter

over.. and Earl would not be allowed to come hunt them on my

property either.. not the ones I draw in to live with me

anyway.. wouldn't mind the venison.. but it wouldn't be fair to

tame them then shoot them.. so.. he'd still have to go way north

to bring the venison home..

Might have a cow.. definitely chickens, probably turkeys too..

ducks maybe.. well turkeys would be a problem, because

would most likely try to put them on the table come November

25th.. and then we'd fight because I couldn't raise them.. and

then eat them.. I'd never make a good farmer's wife..

Looking forward to hearing more about your ever growing family

Sharon.. I'd have one more living here IF I had a place for her

to sleep.. I just can't figure out how to rearrange Roxie's

room, to fit in a bed and still keep her cage close enough that

she can't redecorate the walls of the room.. as it is.. they

need re-papered now.. and I still don't know how she managed to

strip just the paper off the wall.. because it's some kind of

pre-papers plasterboard.. the paper is formed on the

plasterboard as it's made.. She has also destroyed the curtains,

and the curtain rod sags in the middle from her using the

curtain for climbing around at her weight.. She even ties the

curtains in knots.. we had to remove the lacy sheers that came

with the place.. because she managed to pull a hole in them big

enough to fit her head through.. and then somehow got them

twisted.. so she was stuck.. and hanging in the curtain...

She/We are very fortunate that we were home at the time and

heard the squawks she makes.. get hoarser and softer.. so that

we went to check it out.. cause they weren't normal. and found

her hanging.. she was frantic.. so was it little tricky getting

her loose..

Yes.. I think I would love to be living out and "off grid" like

you.. because critters are usually much much friendlier than

people.. at least they pay attention to me.. if I'm out on the

porch in my chair, and the neighbor woman strolls through on her

sidewalk.. I know she knows I'm there.. but pretty much

pointedly ignores me.. unless her dogs are in my yard, peeing on

my fence.. and my muttleys are out.. THEN she'll speak to me...

her husband and kids.. they'd just come get the dogs.. and not

even look at me..

Yes, I'm still avoiding doing the income taxes.. LOL..

fortunately for me, it's going to be a fill in the blanks type

deal.. I just don't want to do it..

HUGS

|)onna

HUGS

|)onna

Not only do we have three

extra kids at our house--now we have a wandering turkey! It is

a female and came to hang around our turkey pen. When the kids

got near the turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for

it now.

What an eventful place we live in! lol

Sharon

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The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its

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roflmho.... I hadn't thought of it like that! hugs SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects. To: MSersLife Sent: Fri, April 15, 2011 1:00:33 PMSubject: Re: visiting turkey at our house

Hmmm, Sharon seems like to me God sent food for the extra mouths! Hurry when it is caught to get it in the "stew pot" before anyone gets attached! Remember God works in mysterious ways. ;-)

Hugs, Jackie

Subject: visiting turkey at our houseTo: "Group" <mserslife >Date: Friday, April 15, 2011, 10:17 AM

Not only do we have three extra kids at our house--now we have a wandering turkey! It is a female and came to hang around our turkey pen. When the kids got near the turkey flew away. The kids are all out looking for it now. What an eventful place we live in! lol

SharonThis email is a natural hand made product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects.