Why Turkeys Should Be Celebrated
How could this have remained unknown for so long?
Their secret finally revealed: why turkeys have thick meaty drumsticks and plump breasts.
It’s because the big birds are savvy predators.
“Tell the Flight Commander that this area is cleared. Trotting off towards the next one.”(© image)
Who knew a flock of giant turkeys could clear a whole neighborhood of Orange Vegetable Invaders almost overnight?
Fast and efficient as a shop vac.
All unharvested pumpkin vegetables seem to vanish immediately – probably about of fright (pumpkin spice and pumpkin pies, something of a dead end).
In addition, giant turkeys appear to know their limits. They don’t act greedy: only hunting what they can easily consume without bloating up and blowing apart.
Looks like a happy camper. Will the HOA waive any camping fees for services rendered? (© image)
Turkeys may also have a sense of humor.
All their “gobble, gobble, gobble-ing” could be an “Insider joke” – humorously ridiculing humans who never seem to figure out true turkey nature even when given a direct hint.
Hank and I walking in the morning fog, spotted a few giant turkeys resting after their efforts.
Probably a good thing they were restrained or we might have disappeared, too!
Turkey can’t trot. This one appears to be suffering from a surfeit of orange vegetable consumption. He should beware of that small white smirking one taunting him.(© image)
Never know what might be just around the corner.
Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge
And now a nice little poem:
I’m Glad the Sky Is Painted Blue
I’m glad the sky is painted blue,
And the earth is painted green,
With such a lot of nice fresh air
All sandwiched inbetween
(Anonymous)
Hollywood Hank, the Happy Husky, was stunned. “Wait until I report back to the HOAA (Home Owners’ Animal Association) about the Orange Vegetable Invaders having serious predators who fly in and neatly clean them out!” (© image)
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I like the turkey but also find it rather tacky, but in a good way. As long as there aren’t any other large decorations representing the rest of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner I think it’s okay.
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The one in the third photo looks hung over — or still adapting to the time change!
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wow too much pumpkins for #3… we agree… then da pumpkin turns into a pump-gun :O)
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One is festive. More than one is clutter!
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Thanks for reminding me of the real ones. The sun on their feathers! I used to teach at a university that sat on a campus much beloved by wild geese and wild turkeys. Big birds strutting across open areas, and doing their strange stylized dances during Mating Season. Sometimes the two species would square off. As one of my students remarked as he came into my office building one afternoon, “Man, it’s like the Sharks and the Jets out there!” I never saw any evidence of actual bloodshed–all performative for their harems. Glad to revisit the memories, Phil!
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Sic ’em, Hank!
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lol! Thank you for the laugh. I might have snorted-laughed when I read the caption for the turkey with the small white vegetable smirking at him. 😀
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It is hard to make a turkey look cuddly. These look stuffed already.
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What a shame that real turkeys are generally bred and fed to have so much breast meat that they can hardly stand! Although not a huge fan of inflatable decorations, these are rather cute and the smirking white pumpkin is pretty funny. For Thanksgiving we can be thankful real turkeys aren’t that big or they might be eating us for Thanksgiving (although I’d have to be fattened up a bit first.) 🙂
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Brilliant!
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