It’s a been a slow news day, but a tiny lit­tle adven­ture came to us at the start of the evening. As I was get­ting sup­per together, my kids started yelling, “There’s a pea­cock out­side our win­dow! There’s a pea­cock out­side our win­dow! There’s a pea­cock out­side our window!”

The Spousal Unit and I looked at each other, shook our heads, Naaah… and went into their room. I noticed that some­one had newly dec­o­rated the win­dows with dark blue crayon and imme­di­ately started ask­ing about that, as Hubby told them, “Those are peo­ple, sil­lies, not pea­cocks.  Now it’s time to wash up for… oh!  Look straight down!  There’s a pea­cock out­side their window!”

Peacock-by-watering-can

The zoo is in our neigh­bor­hood, so I assumed it came from there.  I called to see if some­one would get it, but no go.  I looked up Ani­mal Con­trol, but couldn’t find the num­ber.  So I finally set­tled on the police depart­ment.  A very bored man told me that it hap­pens all the time, and the birds always return home even­tu­ally.  We should just leave it alone. A crowd was gath­er­ing out­side our apart­ment.  It finally flew up on top of the car­port to escape all the humans.  peacock on carport

I hope every­one else is hav­ing a won­der­ful week.

 

2 Responses to Peacocks in my yard

  1. Apollo says:

    I went to Gre­sham Mid­dle School which was right across the street from a guy who raised pea­cocks. They used to get out all of the time and end up over to the school. If I was feel­ing par­tic­u­larly wicked I would chase them into the school build­ings. :-)

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