I swear, the past two mornings have been like "Wild Kingdom" around here! I've seen deer and fox and geese and skunks and raccoons and coyotes and...

Yesterday I was driving home from work and I noticed a wild turkey at the side of the road. I was tired and just sort of stared at it, forgetting that when a wild turkey has it's tail feathers fanned, it's usually showing off for a hen.

All of a sudden it runs across the road in front of me! We're not talking a little turkey here folks! This sucker was almost as big as the mouse car! I had to jack up and come to a complete halt! The truck behind me did the same, and he wasn't happy...until the rest of the twelve that accompanied that first turkey blasted out of the brush and ran across while we were stopped!! LMOA!!

So I drive off and all of a sudden BAM!! This huge turkey FLIES across the road in front of me!! He may have been walking while in the bushes on the side of the road and then took to the air to test the waters...I slammed on my brakes again, the guy behind me does the same and ...here comes another crowd of turkeys!!!

Now I am watching the sides of the road like a hawk, the guy in the truck gets OFF my butt and stays back a reasonable distance...I come around a curve and there's ANOTHER flock of turkeys in the road!!!

I am almost in tears laughing now, because it's just so freaky! The guy in the truck sits behind me and watches the turkeys make their way across the road slowly, shaking his head.

Half a mile...more turkeys. I stopped again and made like I had a shotgun and was shooting the turkeys. I look in the rearview mirror...and this guy is doing the same thing!!! We're both laughing now and off we go. I drove the rest of the way home vewwy vewwy carefully...

This morning I get out of work and start the ride home and who is behind me...but the same guy. I drive down the road, already laughing because up ahead I seeee...YUP

There were at least 50 turkeys in the flock in the road. They stopped traffic both ways this time, people are blowing their horns and the birds are just showing their tails to their ladies and ignoring the growing crowd of cars. One man had the temerity to pull around the stopped vehicles and try to go through the crowd of turkeys...they attacked his car.

The guy in the pickup truck and I are in hysterics laughing now, he follows me again, and every place we saw turkeys yesterday, there they all were again.

Needless to say, I am driving a LOT slower these days...