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2007-05-06

Good morning Boys and Girls.

I'd just walked outside to look at the sky. I'd heard thunder earlier and found myself surprised to see thousands of stars and a bit of the moon. I walked out passed the yard and up the hill.

At the top of the little hill the land levels off for a hundred yards or so and then begins rising again perhaps another fifty or sixty feet, maybe even a little more at perhaps a twenty degree angle. All oaks and poplars.

I'd never walked up that hill at night but it was pretty and still and I was in the mood. Don't know who owns that property, but I didn't think anyone would mind mild trespassing this time of night so up I walked.

At the top of that second rise, I found myself perhaps two hundred yards from the back of the house and looking down toward it.  Through the trees I saw the three lighted squares, two large and one small; the patio doors and the kitchen window.

There's a tree up there that's been hit by lightning, and one of it's twin trunks is snapped off and laying there, a bench upon which I sat for a few minutes and enjoyed the stillness.

Minutes later, just as I was about to get up and head back I was startled by movement behind me.

Turkeys.

Three of them doing their side-to-side walk, single file, no more than ten feet away. It was perhaps eleven p.m. but I guess I always thought turkeys were day people.

I started laughing which scared them, and off they waddled, double time. Pretty funny.

Be good to everyone.

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surrogate (2007-05-07)
They're mostly harmess, except for the ones with fangs and cleavers.

surrogate (2007-05-07)
It's a nice area... I'm new to it, so I'm still appreciating it a lot.

surrogate (2007-05-07)
Thanks Mary.

Mary Mary Quite Contrary (2007-05-06)
sounds like a nice walk!

Hardcore_Pyro (2007-05-06)
Too cool.

figjam (2007-05-06)
Turkeys totally freak me out.

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