You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

[check]

I use them for slippers around the house. If I need to run outside for something, no problem. I don't do serious work in them.

Yup. Me too. Inside or on the deck, it's Crocs. Better than orthotics if you have bad knees!

 

[Larry Caldwell]

love it when city types move out here and insist they hear fisher cats or cougars at night. They look at me like i'm an idiot when I say they're just foxes until they get a sound byte off the internet. Also usually takes them 6 months or so to stop calling the police every time they see a black bear passing through.

We have owls around here that sound like somebody being murdered by a mountain lion, during owl breeding season. It freaks people out, and it's hard to convince them it's just a bird.

 

[MossRoad]

...sound like somebody being murdered by a mountain lion, during owl breeding season....

That just sounds weird. :laughing:

 

[California]

Can't be as bad as a desperately lonesome Peacock.

 

[ruffdog]

You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

they think something is wrong with "warm" cheese curds and would rather have the "cold" ones.

 

[TomSeller]

... when they're surprised that you go to the garden to get vegetables and not to the store.

 

[MossRoad]

Can't be as bad as a desperately lonesome Peacock.

I had a peacock scream ambush me from about 10' once. MAN!

I also remember we took our youngest to the Zoo in Ft. Wayne when she was about 2.5 years old. They have a bunch of white peacocks. One was standing on a ledge around a flower bed with its tail out wide, strutting its stuff. Just beautiful. My little girl ran up to it and put her arms out wide. They were exactly face-to-face, about 12" apart when the peacock opened its beak and screamed right in her face!!! aaaAA! aaAA!! aaAA!! She turned, terrified and came screaming crying right back to us! :laughing:

 

[sixdogs]

We have owls around here that sound like somebody being murdered by a mountain lion, during owl breeding season. It freaks people out, and it's hard to convince them it's just a bird.

When we lived very rural in the north, foxes would scare visitors at night. People were sure it was a baby crying in the woods and wanted me to go look. Uhhh, no thanks.

 

[Dftodd]

We had a peacock show up at our house one day. At the time, I was in high school. We lived on 100 acres, and we're surrounded by National forest and International paper's land. Nearest neighbor was a half mile away. It happened to be turkey season at the time. So I had pulled the rifle out of the gun cabinet and put the scope on it since it was about 200 yards out. Then realized it didn't look quite right.

At the time, I had never seen a peacock except in books and pictures. So I was having issues identifying what the heck it was Till it fanned out its tail. Then it created a bunch more questions. The biggest one, was what in the world was a peacock doing running loose in the mountains of Vermont

Come to find out, a guy that lived a couple miles away, raised exotic birds, and his peacock escaped.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I had a peacock scream ambush me from about 10' once. MAN!

I also remember we took our youngest to the Zoo in Ft. Wayne when she was about 2.5 years old. They have a bunch of white peacocks. One was standing on a ledge around a flower bed with its tail out wide, strutting its stuff. Just beautiful. My little girl ran up to it and put her arms out wide. They were exactly face-to-face, about 12" apart when the peacock opened its beak and screamed right in her face!!! aaaAA! aaAA!! aaAA!! She turned, terrified and came screaming crying right back to us! :laughing:

Bwahahaha! Thanks.