Who is screaming?

Well if you are visiting us on our farm this past week and you hear a scream, it might just stop you in your tracks. I know that Mom was visiting us tonight and when she came in the house she said just what in the world was going on outside! 

And I knew it could just be one thing. It was one of our peacocks. See this time of the year they’re looking for friend and no one is safe. Just see who was checking out Daryl when he came home tonight! Yup, Sam who is one of our peacocks. 

I even have to wait to put out our St.Francis statue in front of our house because we’ve had situations where the peacock for some very strange reason would stand in front of it and shake his feathers and then scream as loud as they could! Now this is bad enough but because we live so close to the highway it can be just darn right embarrassing. Maybe they’re kinda blind or something who knows, but poor St. Francis.  I’m just saying.

I think the worst thing that ever happened with our peacocks was that Sam headed up to one of our neighbors to watch some TV. See our peacocks love to watch TV. They will stand on our porch and watch the TV from the french doors and I guess we’ve just gotten used to it. But this one night Sam the peacock went to the neighbors and I don’t know if she turned the channel or what, be he started to scream. And then he screamed some more right under her window where she was sitting! Well we had no idea that any of this was going on until the phone rang and the neighbor asked us if we would come get our animal away from their house. (kinda funny if you ask me!) So Daryl went and got some boots on and thought he field he went to find our peacocks. Yup, there Sam was in our farm neighbors back yard. Now if you have never seen a peacock being herded through a field before – well let’s just say you are definitely missing some entertainment. With a lot of coaxing and arm waving, finally everyone was home for the night.

I love our peacocks and well Daryl just kinda puts up with them. With our anniversary coming up I wonder if a couple of new baby peacocks would be a good anniversary gift? I’ll have to look it up when it’s appropriate to give animals as a gift. I’m betting a 33 year anniversary year don’t you? 

So here is a picture of Sam finding Sally our peahen finally showing a little bit of interest in him later on tonight. 

And here is Sam in all his glory!