I used to raise peacocks.\u00a0 You ever seen peacocks strutting thru a South End shack yard, it\u2019s sorta otherworldly.\u00a0 They brought an elegance that was indescribable to our backwash palace.\u00a0 You ever HEARD one of these exotic creatures, you might reconsider classing up the bottom land.\u00a0 They got a scream like a child being tortured.\u00a0 I guarantee the neighbors will wear out 911 with their calls of mayhem and madness at your place.\u00a0\u00a0Course when I had the peacocks, we didn\u2019t have neighbors.\u00a0 No, they didn\u2019t move away because of the noise, they just hadn\u2019t discovered the fabulous South End yet.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My peacocks, no offense to you Bird Huggers out there \u2013 my peacocks had a head about the size of a big martini olive.\u00a0 And inside that head they had a brain the size of, well, a pea.\u00a0 My peacocks were not bright.\u00a0 They made a chicken look like Albert Einstein.\u00a0 They thought my Banty hen, who\u2019d hatched their eggs, they thought she was not only Einstein, but their mama and God too.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t ask me what I was thinking.\u00a0 My brain isn\u2019t real big either.\u00a0 Although I\u2019m pretty sure who my mama is but don\u2019t ask me about Pop.\u00a0 I\u2019m like the peacocks \u2013 I just go on faith.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had the peacocks a few years until Mama Banty got picked off by a Wily Coyote.\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t come back to the henhouse after that, so they roosted in the cedars every night.\u00a0 Dumb or not, they figured out the climbing ability of a coyote.\u00a0 Finally they decided to go looking for Ma.\u00a0 The Police Blotter in the Stanwood Gazette \u2013 and this is the Gospel Truth \u2013 would report on their progress north.\u00a0 Peacock sighting at Dahlman Road.\u00a0 Peacocks seen gathering at Sunnyshore.\u00a0 Eventually they found a chicken surrogate ma up by O-Zi-Ya.\u00a0 O-Zi-Ya is Southendomish, meaning, I think, Ornithological Orphanage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sometimes I miss those little pea-brains.\u00a0 Although I can sleep longer w\/o an alarm clock that sounds like a nightmare.\u00a0 I wonder, though, if I\u2019d kept em, if the South End mighta stayed, oh, I don\u2019t know, less developed.\u00a0 Maybe forced the new neighbors to move north instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I used to raise peacocks.\u00a0 You ever seen peacocks strutting thru a South End shack yard, it\u2019s sorta otherworldly.\u00a0 They brought an elegance that was indescribable to our backwash palace.\u00a0 You ever HEARD one of these exotic creatures, you might reconsider classing up the bottom land.\u00a0 They got a scream like a child being tortured.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9099\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}