The Morning Report: Part 1

Some of my favorite work is hanging out with the animals which I get to do when I feed them every morning.  Let me walk you through the AM Feeding.  As I walk up the driveway (I am staying next door to the farm, so it’s a short walk away) the 3 field cows welcome me to work.  They never say much, but they definitely take notice of me as I walk past on the other side of the fence.  They follow me with their big, friendly cow eyes.  I am really starting to consider cows as adorable creatures.  Next, as I near the edge of the fenced in pasture, the 3 turkeys are waiting at the corner to laugh at me.  I have decided that whoever thought that turkeys made the sound "gobble, gobble" did a very poor job of properly characterizing their sound.  I cannot exactly onomatopeoize the sound turkeys make; I can only describe it as a very loud giggle.  What's more is that they all somehow secretly know when the others are going to giggle because all 3 of them break out into this turkey laughter at the same time as if on cue.  It makes one a little uncomfortable, like when you walk into a room and everyone laughs as though they had been talking about you.  Aside from this turkey giggle-not-gobble, I find turkeys to be curious creatures.  They always follow you around; they want to know what is going on.  I now understand the meaning of calling someone a turkey.  They also sleep up high; they spend the whole day walking around on the ground but when it’s bed time I find them, without fail, perched on a fence or chicken coop roof.  Those turkeys.