Harold's Exciting Day

We think it happened sometime on the Friday afternoon right before we got home from Mexico. Something, probably a coyote, carried Marian off. I couldn't find even a feather. Harold has been wandering around outside gobbling incessantly looking for her. I couldn't bear the idea of getting another hen and having her eaten too so I posted on Craigslist to see if anyone had a safer happier home for Harold. To my surprise there was great interest. I picked a local park that has a farm outreach program. They had a turkey pair and had the same experience where the hen was taken but not the tom, and he was just as lonely. So with Mona's help I wrapped up a (surprisingly heavy) turkey in a towel and put him in a huge dog kennel and drove him over there this morning.

That duck, Buzz, REALLY wants to be friends. He followed Harold everywhere.

The best part: he'll be happy. The second best part: I can visit him anytime. I got to pet some sheep and baby goats and check out their rabbits and chickens. Since there is a lot of human traffic they don't usually have predator problems and frankly I can't think of many animals bold enough to take on TWO male turkeys. Goodbye Harold, I'll come to visit you with some corn sometime soon.

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In other thoughts, where is my warm weather? In the space of a week I have gone from this:

Charlie's legs are a perfect nesting spot for Isaac on a pool-break

to this today:

another four inches of fluffly misery