For those who haven't heard the story, I was surprised this morning by something that probably would have never happened in Texas City. I was going in my backyard to make my youngest son water balloons for water day at his school. Minding my own business I opened my backdoor and stepped out to find a rather large (approx. 2 ft.), black feathered, huge clawed thing sitting there vomiting and pooping all over my patio. I froze for about a split second and ran inside to call the fire department (i.e. Greg). I assume he thought I was over reacting until he actually saw the thing hanging out on our porch because his response was, OH DAMN! Nevermind while I was on the phone he asked the luitenant if he minded going by the house cause there was something on the porch and his wife was freaking out, but whatever.
So the fire department comes and they don't want to touch it, then pest control comes and hauls it off. It took me about 1 hour to completely stop hyperventilating and another hour to actually calm down.
The next door neighbor mentioned that last week he found 2 wild turkeys in his backyard and a rattlesnake on his front porch. I am soooo not accustomed to this, any prayers would be appreciated.
Isn't it cute !!!!!!!!!this is called a turkey vulture.
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That is the freakiest story I have ever heard. I would have thought it was something right off the FX channel. I hope you don't mind that I just put a link to this story on my site yesterday. It was too funny not to pass on :) I like that animal control was involved and the fireman weren't so into removing it themselves, haha.
LOL. Okay, I had to tell you this. I was telling some people about the writhing turkey vulture & your amusing indignation over West Texas animals coming into your yard to die, haha. My pagan, nature-centric neighbor was there and very genuinely said, "Oh, I would have been honored that he chose my yard to die in!" I almost felt badly that my response was a very loud guffaw and telling her that when a potentially rabid, feathery, clawy animals lands on your back porch...if you are honored, rather than alarmed, I don't know that I would really feel sorry for you when you ended up on an IV drip to cure a 1001 avian inspired disease particles that you were exposed to when he clawed you, while you were trying to express how honored you were by making him more comfortable. Argh!!!! This is the same woman that likens picking leaves from trees to pulling hair out of your friends head though, haha. And yes, Tiffani, the obsessive non-judger is definitely being judgmental here :)
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