bird assault

that would be equipment i found in the lab. i don't know what it does. i do know that i appreciate the color combination of red, turquoise, and yellow.

so this morning we heard a super odd, loud, banging sound coming from the upstairs bedroom. i said "sounds like a woodpecker," not anticipating that it would actually be..... a woodpecker. a huge, girthy woodpecker trying to bang its way into our house. pecking and pecking and pecking. i ran outside yelling "hey mr. woodpecker. stop pecking on our house. go peck on that tree" (but add lots of profanity) and he (or she) flew off. but they quickly returned. i went into the bedroom with proton the ferocious (see pic at left) yelling "hey. woodpecker. hey woodpecker." (again.. sprinkled with the f-bomb) and proton barked and the booger flew away and this time stayed away. then later, we saw about 15 wild turkeys in the cow pasture next door. we'd been seeing turkeys in some fields on the way to our house, but not this close before. they look like dinosaurs. delicious, delicious dinosaurs. and apparently they fly. i tried to get pics and they promptly flew away and one perched in a tree. and i thought "huh... there's a turkey in a tree. weird. " and if a thought bubble could pop from mr. woodpecker's head i'm pretty sure he/she would be thinking the same thing. who knew turkeys hung out in trees? perhaps this bird assault has something to do with the heaps of bird food i dispersed in our backyard yesterday.... perhaps.

and yes... that's where we found proton last night. in the dark. on shoes.