Summer Splashin’ & a Peacock Safari…just a typical Wed family night!

Summer is here!  Well, not technically but it’s close enough that the pool is finally warm enough to get in and both the girls just love it.  We swam all weekend but of course I got no pictures-Matt was playing golf so it was just me in the pool with them and really no extra hands for a camera if you can imagine!

Wednesday night the girls went swimming in Honey & Papa’s pool for the first time this year (well, Sara Gray ever) so I finally was able to get some pictures. As you can see, they are both little fish.  Sara Gray is just like her sister-loving it from the start.  She has actually figured out how to kick in her little float to get around the pool and loves playing peek-a-boo with the sun shade. 

As we were getting out of the pool, someone said they had just seen the peacock by the rode.   Yes, my parents have a peacock!  Not a pet and not even theirs but a peacock lives in the woods around their house.  We assume someone got him as a pet and then he got too big or too wild or they came to their senses or something and anyway, now their is a wild peacock in Pike County!  I have heard his call many times which sounds like a high- pitched squawky yelp for help…”may-yaw, may=yaw”.  My dad says he is looking for a mate so he actually bought a couple of female peacocks to put in the woods that he could find. Lucky guy. Poor girls!

ANYWAY, Campbell got super excited about the possibility of seeing a peacock (and I sorta did too) so we loaded up in the jeep and Christopher took us on a hunt.  After we thought that we would never find him, suddenly we saw him.  We crept up on him slowly with the windows rolled down and for a minute there it was like we were on a safari following a peacock….but really in my parent’s backyard. crazy.

We got close enough to see him fairly well and was amazed how long his tail is. I have never seen one that long at the zoo!  We blew the horn and rapped on the side of the jeep to try to get him to raise up his feathers but nothing. 

Then Campbell “talked” to him in a very high squeaky noise and that bird straightened up and looked around and got very excited.  It was hilarious!!  We laughed for 4 straight minutes!  He never did show us his feathers but we learned that Campbell knows how to talk to the animals!