If he goes and comes back its yours, and if he doesn't...u go catch it!

After a month of leaving the coop, the peacock has returned... Well it sounds easier than what it is. It all started over a month ago... I went with the boys to John's Pet and Feed to get chickens, when I saw this extraorindary fowl! He barely fitted in the SUV, his body was next to me on the arm rest compartment and his back feather touched the back gate window. When we finally made it home, I showed him to Ed who was shocked (after 10 years, he thought I couldn't shock him). That evening we placed him with the chickens. In the morning when we went to feed them, he was gone! At first we thought a cyote grabbed him because one had been coming around. Then the following days we could hear him "sing" from dawn to dusk. We thought maybe he was in a neighbor tree. Flash forward to this week: we offered the neighborhood kids $20 bucks to catch and return him safely. One of these younglings said he was impossible to catch, but that a neighbor from the other side of our block had seen it and knew where it slept. So I went to this neighbor and he should me the 110 foot tree that the bird rested in. The fowl slept in the top 10 feet of that tree. I had called on my front neighbor since he was a professional pole climber (for phone wires, not the exotic kind). When we spoke to the owner of the property regarding her tenant she was more than amazed that he had an owner. Then she asked me logical questions: where did i get him from and what was his name? The first was an easy one. Then I fessed up and said I didn't even get a chance to name him. Being he had been with her for so long, I asked if she had named him. She said, "REX" and that most of the neighbors bring him treats and water to an abandon home where he hangs out in during the day. I went ahead and left his name REX. My phone wire neighbor lent me a giant net which made it fairly easy to catch him once he was on the ground. Now REX is finally home.

After being teased by my cousins about what my days are like: go to a play date, catch a 7 foot peacock, take my kids to eat bimbimbop, come home feed a pony. I realized that the only thing I have in common with 99.99% of the population is that I wake up and go to sleep. Who knows what will happen tommorow, a unicorn or a supperman may need my help. lol.