Friday, January 23, 2009

Turkey vs Peacock, Battle Royal!

A few posts back I believe I mentioned that I wanted a pet chicken. Not any more.
Was shopping at Wallens the other day and on their door is an ad for some guy selling peacocks! In 3 different color schemes! So I’m all ‘fuck that chicken, I want a peacock’.

And Mrs. Barn is all ‘Yea,, right. You’re getting a peacock.’
Hey, if Doris can have a turkey, I want a peacock,(stomping my feet).
After plenty of arguing, negotiating, we leave it at I’m going to find out what they eat and we will go from there.
So’s I google up “peacock chow” and found a cornucopia of info!
What I read made it sound like these birds are more work than I want to put out, being a lazy bastard and all. Besides, some a-hole would probably steal it, kill it, and stew it!
But I think it would be way cool to have a peacock roamin the estate!

Does anyone think yesterday’s smegma blog was too much? A couple things come from it. I got an email asking why I would do that if I was trying to win an award in the travel blog competition.
To that I say, I have two chances of getting voted best travel blog.
1. microscopic
2. none.
Besides, what fun is that? It ain’t like I make money doing this, so who cares?
Also, prior to the smegma thing, I had a whopping 2 people following the blog. One of them cut and ran like they were on fire! Back down to one. Was it the smegma? The Jesus/Dogbutt photo? Or the little dig at Sarah Palin?
And if smegma is a legit word, how come my spell checker doesn’t know that?
So, back to some normal stuff for now. Here’s some Mrs. Barn photos. (NO, not those kind either, pervs!)


















I come home sober and my dog bites me.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

peacocks are noisy as crap too!

Unknown said...

Peacocks are also mean and like to attack metal things like cars, they are noisy as shit, sound like a woman screaming... Not your desired animal, go with the chickens... Get an older chicken cause ya can't tell em apart as chicks and roosters don't make eggs...

Nancy1340 said...

Peacocks! You have any idea how much noise those damn things make? You'd end up stewing the thing yourself when it woke you up from a hang over kinda night.

Anonymous said...

I second the noisy peacock! One showed up in our yard when I was about 16 and my dad kept feeding it. After 2 weeks he killed it as it made so much noise! It also scratched the heck out of our car, it saw its own reflection and attacked itself! Get another dog!

RPM said...

Peacocks are a major PITA. Stick with chickens.

LandShark 5150 said...

B.B. me say turkey. A bourbon Red.A bottle of Wild Turkey to be exact. Get the chickens and you can have chicken courdion bleu with a nice whiskey roux.

T. Brook Smith said...

Also voting against peacocks here..


...and LOVING the picture of the houndfish (langyard) jumping!

Watching those guys fly along the surface is one of my favorite things.