Turkzilla

3/9/08 - The Lord's Day - Mid-Afternoon. In keeping with a recent trend of me talking about Turkey (Turkey soup, Canning Turkey, Turkuna sandwiches, etc.) I decided to entitle this blogpost "Turkzilla". Today, when I first woke up, I could hear the turkeys very loud near the rear of the land, but didn't go down there because I figured they were probably across the fence in the neighbors property. Well, we had a great fellowship and when I returned I heard a very deep voiced Tom gobbling back behind my office. It sounded like either a very deep voiced and monstrously big Tom Turkey, or some idiot trying to call Turkeys and doing a not very good job at it. So I came all the way back to the cabin and got my shotgun. I had it loaded with four shells. The first shell was a magnum load of 00 Buck. Then the next 3 loads were all "4" shot, which is a much smaller load. So I walked back to the office, expecting that the turkeys had already vamoosed away from the area. When I got behind the office and crossed the creek, I looked to my left and I saw the biggest Tom Turkey I had ever seen, I mean this guy must have been about 4 feet tall. I would say he was 30 yards away and just on my side of the fence. I raised the shotgun and took a shot and I know I hit him because I saw some feathers fly. He immediately took to the air and I took my second shot (this time with the "4" shot). I am a pretty good shot and I don't miss much, and I had to have hit him the second time but he didn't even flinch. Now he is flying about 5 feet off of the ground from my left to my right - crossing about 20 yards in front of me. I pumped the shotgun and took the third shot and down he goes very hard. He tumbled down to the ground and I saw him bounce behind a Cedar tree. I started running to keep him in view, knowing I had taken him down and at this time I saw a turkey run from the west side of the clump of trees and down towards the creek. I figured it was another turkey since I had seen my big Tom hit the ground pretty hard. I circled around to where the downed turkey should be, and he was gone! There was a pile of feathers there but no Turkey. I immediately commenced a search, and eventually went and loaded up the whole family and we scoured the whole back of the property to no avail. Somehow, Turkzilla had gotten away. I don't know if he lived through the deal, but I would really, really, really like to get that Turkey. I was already eating wild turkey sandwiches in my thoughts as I was searching for Turkzilla. Oh well.

Like I said we had a great fellowship today. I love walking to fellowship with the family on the Lord's Day morning on the dirt roads. For our Lord's Day dinner we had smoked brisket, mashed potatoes, salad, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, mixed veggies and tortillas. For desert I had vanilla pudding with chocolate chips and some kind of chocolate cream pie which was very nice. We played horseshoes for a few hours then we came home and I lost my prize Turkzilla.

I hope you all had a wonderful Lord's Day and I look forward to getting some work done tomorrow.

God Bless,

Michael