Christmas Miracles

Woke up this morning, looked out the window and discovered that someone had tied a giant air-filled Homer to one of our patio seats, and plugged his air pump into one of the outlets on the side of our garage. We're not sure who put him there, though we have our suspicions.

Later, I went for a walk around the neighborhood, while Mrs C was relaxing... when I got back, I saw a big male ring-necked pheasant walking around the alley in back of our house. I walked up to it to get a better look and it walked up to meet me, fearlessly. It looked me over a bit, then walked on by. It was close enough I could've reached down and grabbed it. In fact, I backed up to get out of its way. Beautiful thing. It didn't look sick or injured, but I assume pheasants aren't usually glad to see people - do people keep pheasants as pets? Anyway, I ran back to my house to get a camera, but it had wandered into someone's back yard by the time I returned, and I didn't want to pursue.

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