Gobble Gobble

I have not mentioned yet that we live in our own animal kingdom in Osceola.  It is nothing out of the ordinary to go out and see 3 or 4 deer hunkered down in the yard.  Odd thing about it, when they see us its as if we are their owners and they don't even move. For the longest time M & B thought that Santa's Reindeer lived here.  With the weather warming up (thank God), more animals have began to show their face in the subdivision.  Two days ago I am in the office working and I hear this annoying noise.  I look out my window and there are two of the largest wild turkeys staring at me.  Thank God nobody was here and heard me scream like they were trying to attack me.  But it was a bit odd opening the blinds and seeing them staring through the window.  They are really ugly.

Last night being that it was almost 70 out, I let the kids play on the back patio while I cleaned up the dishes from dinner.  Suddenly I hear M tell B that he needs to just put the ball down and get to the house now.  He obviously isn't listening and I hear her say "B, I am your sister, I am not kidding get yourself to the house or this is going to be bad".  At this point, I look out the window and holy shit there are those turkeys walking towards them!  I was so proud of M for not leaving B out there alone, but the only child in me came out and I was thinking at this point its survival of the fittest.  I run out and tell them to get inside.  At this point B is pretty close to the bird and I think realizes that the bird is taller than him; he runs towards the house like he is on fire.  Dave and I cannot help but laugh. 

B runs into the house and goes directly to the playroom downstairs comes back up with a toy gun and says "Don't you worry M I am going to shoot these turkeys in the ass".  How is that for parenting?!?  Dave and I both had to walk the other way because we didn't want him to see us laugh.  By now the turkeys are moving over to the tree line and B is yelling at them from the patio door to get out of his house and never come back as he is making shooting sounds with his gun.

This is the first for the turkeys.  Typically we have raccoon, deer, opossum, cats, and an animal control person came to my door once and said they were tracking a coyote in our area and showed me the prints in the yard and if we had small children or any pets to keep a close eye on them.

Almost as if Noah decided to offload the Arc in our neck of the woods....

This is after they started to walk in the tree line.  Of course I couldn't get the picture sooner as I was fearful for them attacking B.  However; at this point he is still yelling that he is going to shoot them and to get out of our house.