A few days ago I was buckling the kids into the minivan and Gage kept talking, talking, talking. And to be quite honest, (here comes a confession) I was tuning him out. There is SO much noise in my home (plus I spent 6 years teaching elementary school) that I am an expert at tuning out the kid noise.

Please tell me I am not the only one who is guilty of neglecting a rambling child??

I will say I was tuned in just enough to notice the pitch of his little voice was changing, as well as increasing in speed. At that point I started listening.

“What you need, Gage?” I asked.

“To tell you there’s a weally big, fat bird on our house.”

Boy, was he right!

There really was a big, fat bird on our house! It wasn’t a pretty bird either, it was a buzzard or also know as a vulture. Fascinating, huh?

Does anyone know, are these really big, fat, and ugly birds a southern thing? Whittaker Woman is always educating me on what new things she has discovered since moving to the south. Simple things I have always taken for granted, like lightening bugs for instance.

You’ve already read about the clump of bees propogating in our front yard. Now look at the havoc a raccoon made of our trash a few months ago.

Oh, if I would have had my little Flip camera then, the video I could have gotten of Pete trying to outsmart that raccoon. It was quite a saga. And you’re seeing correctly, he is standing on a chair.

We live 15 minutes from downtown Nashville, a metropolis! But here’s the list of all the wildlife we’ve seen in the past month from the yard of our home; vulture, clump of bees, oppossum, racoon, momma wild turkey with chicks, deer, geese and we’ve heard coyotes howling. The wildlife outnumbers us!

Fill me in, what’s the wildest or weirdest thing you have seen looking out your front door?