What We Saw Out Our Window

So Charlie says, “Hey! Come here and look at this! There’s a big wild turkey at the edge of the driveway!”

Okay, we live in the country, and we’ve seen quite a few flocks of wild turkey, but it’s always a treat, so #4 Daughter, who was visiting, and I hustled into the front room to look.

CHARLIE: He’s a big one, isn’t he?

ME: He sure is.

CHARLIE: And there’s only one. We usually see them in flocks.

ME: Maybe he’s a loner. A rogue.

#4: Is he wearing a black leather jacket? Any tattoos?

CHARLIE: He’s a fat one, isn’t he?

Meanwhile, the bird comes closer, foraging all the way.

Here it is, between our driveway and the family driveway that goes past Mom’s house.

Totally other than a wild turkey.

ME: I believe it’s a peahen!

And, friends, that’s what it was. Like a peacock, but the female of the species. They’re called peahens, as ghu is my witness!

We don’t know of anybody around here who keeps peafowl, but here she was. Now, I ask you: How cool was that? Pretty freakin’ cool, that’s how!

I’m posting today at Fatal Foodies with a photograph of something else just barely outside my house.

A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A character sees something unexpected out the window.

MA