So i promised no more turkey tails. . .

Well, perhaps i fibbed!

This year is just getting stranger and stranger. i am certain that for the last, nearly ten years, that i have lived in the north land. It often feels that i am only about three feet from the arctic circle. . . well three months into winter it does. So i started the spring with doom and gloom predictions because we went through all of April without a drop of rain. Well - here it is June and we haven't really seen a day without rain all month. Most days it feels like we are living in the rain forest (which tickles me to no end). All plants that threatened to strike are now growing fantastically - especially the weeds - note the accompanying photos!! In fact it's not yet July and already i have okra (yes a southern food!!!!!) in the garden. Yea and yummy!!!!!

And these turkeys. . . you know, the ones that i ranted and raved about endlessly for six weeks. . . well, they were ALL eaten in ONE night. A raccoon broke into our paddock one night and killed everything in it. The peahens. . . gone. The big turkey. . . gone. The baby turkeys. . . all gone.
We thought it was a fisher or maybe a fox. Turns out it was raccoons, who, will kill indiscriminately.
A neighbor gave us box traps to help with "fixing" the problem. We have been thus far skunked. . . .until today. There is a raccoon that has taken up residence in my garage for the night. And tomorrow it's sentence will be read at the gallows!


In an odd twist, last night (before we confirmed raccoons in the yard), Chris and i were chasing foxes who were chasing the chickens around the yard. Only one shot was fired, but that is another story for another day. . .














P.S. Did you know that the average kid can recognize somewhere in the neighborhood of one thousand different name brands and less than twenty five vegetables in the garden. . .or something sick and twisted like that!