This “Blizzard for the Ages” Headed for the East Coast Is Very Much the Real Deal

[gregcrawford]

62. Up here in Vermont...

... we've had in excess of 48" in 24 hours. Not a common occurrence, but it does happen. And I wasn't exaggerating about the bird feeder; I got pictures! Somewhere...

And the turkeys are a riot to watch. The hens and poults come in first, then the jakes. When any chance of landing on the dinner table looks remote, the toms will make an appearance, and some of those boys are BIG! They'll chase everyone else off and gorge themselves. One of my favorite watercolors is one I did from a shot out of our kitchen window. The only drawback to their visits are the poopsicles they leave that our dogs L-O-V-E LOVE! Yuck. Kisses from the pupsters were NOT appreciated after a conclave of turkeys (yes, I know that's not the official name of a group of turkeys!) under out feeder.

When I first moved to Vermont, there weren't ANY turkeys; now they're ever' damn where.

I went turkey hunting once. You're sittin' in the woods tryin' to look like a bush and sound like a bird. You're beggin' to get your ass shot off, and I damned near did!

Your handle suggests you're from Connecticut. I spent a lot of my formative years around the Nutmeg State. After several decades in the Green Mountain State, I get hives from all the people in CT.