Wild Kingdom

For those of you who don't know, Sam supplements his teacher salary with an exotic hunting business. I am not an authority on any kind of animal other than I can sometimes identify what kind of animal it is. I leave the rest to the professionals. I can't even correctly spell the names of the majority of the animals that reside on the Back Forty.

It just so happens that the pasture that contains the exotic creatures is about a hundred yards (and I'm guessing here) from the house. In the still of the night, I swear the chupacabra (sp?) is right outside the window. The elks are bugling and the axis are whistling. You gotta really be in touch with nature to truly appreciate the amazing sounds these animals make.


Now throw in a metal grinding noise at 4am.....took me a few minutes but its the windmill that is between the house and the exotic pasture. My first brush with this noise was when I was about five years old. Dennis told me it was a "Windmill Bird". I believed there really was such a creature until I was at least eight or nine years old.


And then there are the goats that sometimes retire for the evening just south of the house. They like to congregate right along the yard fence. Gray Cat has yet to determine if the goats pose any kind of threat to his new domain.


Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom is alive and well and I'm living right smack dab in the middle of it.