It has been a busy week of all kinds of animal happenings. Last Sunday a "wild" turkey just showed up in our yard. We asked the neighbors and no one knows where he came from.
He's big and handsome, but probably not wild. He lets us come up to him and is happy to eat the food that we put out for the poultry.
Mr. Turkey seems to like hanging out with the guinea fowl and picking on the chickens. He is at least a year old based on his whiskers. And he is a loud gobbler! We think that maybe someone tried to release him into the woods or something? As soon as we saw him perching on the deck railing at night we knew that he was not wild. He has been here a week so far -- totally free ranging and just hanging out. The kids want to find him a Jenny (female) to be his buddy.
Our friends at church had to go out town and asked us to come exercise their German Shepherd for an hour every day. The kids love Kirche. She is a beautiful old bloodline German Shepherd.
She loves to fetch and chase balls of all shapes and sizes. Or she will also chase a frisbee, though she is not as good at catching those as balls. It's a major novelty for the kids since our dogs absolutely do not fetch things.
She likes to ride in cars too. If it wasn't for our dogs, the kids wanted to take her home with us every afternoon.
I intended to butcher these 6 extra drakes when we did the rooster butchering day, but we ran out of time. It was hard to motivate myself to make time for another round of butchering with so many other farm chores calling my name. I finally decided to just put them up for sale on Craiglist and see whether anyone wanted them. They sold in less than 24 hours and went off to their new home.
Brother M rescued a fledgling woodpecker from the cat. His wing seemed slightly injured. We have tried unsuccessfully to take care of injured fledglings before... I convinced Brother M that the best plan was to let him hide under our big log pile and hope for the best.
We had a big family weeding day on Friday.
Everyone helps and then we treat ourselves to a special meal - Cafe Rio, in this case.
They were so happy to go play with Kirche every day.
The big kids all spent most of the day Saturday at the Pinewood Derby. They did not win any of the prizes this year, but still seemed in pretty good spirits.
Bruster's Ice Cream shop also had their "Pajama Day" Saturday. We had ice cream for dinner :) We each got a free regular size waffle cone and Baby A had a small sugar cone. He ate it all up!
We had to eat our ice cream in the car since it was very chilly outside -- around 40 F.
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