Lets Jump Together

It all began the end of last winter.
We started hearing a rattling vibration just under the floor in our bedroom.
It would wake us up in the middle of the night.
The first few times my heart was beating so quickly, I was sure it was going to burst.
It would happen each night, and we thought it [...]

The little pieces of chipped tree kept floating down just outside the window by my computer.
It kept grabbing my eye as I was working, so after a bit, I went outside to see what was going on.
There was a perfectly round hole in one of the branches in the tree beside my window.
But there was [...]

I had never heard of of this sport until last night when we were watching PBS.
Noodling is the sport of catching huge flathead catfish with one’s bare hands.
No rod, reel, bait, or equipment of any kind.
Just a man, searching in the holes where these giant fish live, and pulling them out with their hands, usually [...]

I have had a couple pairs of Northern Cardinals around for years.
Their song is as gorgeous as their bright red color.
I find them to be rather timid, and they fly away at the slightest movement or sound.
Each summer they raise their young who are very easy to spot as their feathers are not as bright [...]

Yesterday we arrived home to find a woodchuck smack in the middle of the backyard eating grass.
It didn’t seem too bothered by us, so we watched it awhile before it lazily went back beyond the trees to the neighbors yard.
It visited later in the afternoon, and we then went out to hopefully “scare” it back [...]

They didn’t take long to find the feeder.
I put it out,and less than an hour later, there were three of them, two females, and one male, fighting over who was going to eat.
And there were four stations - they could each happily eat at one.
Who knows what goes on in their little heads.
Any way, when [...]

We all know the familiar looking turkey that is used for decorating around Thanksgiving time.
As a child, I never saw a turkey look like that.
And all these years later, all I have ever seen of the wild turkeys, both male and female, were flocks of them in fields with long tail feathers.
None of them ever [...]