Thanks for the Memories, Penelope...

Born: ?  Died 04/25/2016

We have some sad news to report today.  Just yesterday in a post we talked about eating 4 of Penelope the Peahen's eggs for breakfast.  This afternoon Benjamin was picking dewberries on the side of the road and came across Penelope.  She was dead - apparently the victim of a motor vehicle accident.  Benjamin came back to the house and told him mom.  We were sad.  Poor old gal.

She was just a big old bird, but she had been around for, I guess, about 3 years now and we had grown attached to her.  Her formal name was Penelope, but lots of times, I'd call her "P," for short. She was quirky and had a neat personality.  Penelope looked regal with her 'headdress.'  She'd fly over the fence and strut around the yard, walking like an Egyptian, we'd joke. As we drove to church yesterday morning, we looked out and she was strutting across the neighbor's side yard.  We made up a silly song about her and laughed at her wandering ways. 

She would come and go as she pleased.  We didn't purchase her - she kind of purchased us.  She just showed up one day and stayed around.  In the evenings she would fly to the very top of either a live oak tree or a pecan tree and roost for the night, safe from predators.  Although we live in what I would say is "the country," the blacktop road in front of the house is a busy road, with people coming and going and driving quite fast - too fast, to be honest.

Penelope got a little too brave for her own good and got out on the road.  Poor Penelope wasn't prepared for the vehicles that speed up and down the road and met her cruel ate.  We'll miss that big old goofy bird.  Thanks for the memories, P!

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.