Here turkey, turkey..

When I saw the little animation of "me" chasing the turkey I had to add it because it made me laugh out loud. Not just because the animation was funny but because it reminded me of my childhood. When I was younger, probably right around the girls age, my family raised turkeys. We got them all nice and fat and juicy and then yup you guessed it, ate them for Thanksgiving. We raised quite a few and shared them with friends and neighbors and with the help of friends and neighbors the slaughtering was also done at home. It was my job because I was small to get into the turkey pen, grab a turkey and lead it to the door so my dad could kill it. I guess if you want to be dramatic I was leading the turkey to slaughter. But this is not a story of childhood trauma it was and just is fact of life. So anyway there is a technique to grabbing a turkey, especially when it is almost as big as you are. It is very important to grab it firmly on each side and hold the wings down. Because it really hurts to get hit the face with flapping turkey wings. That, if anything, was what may have caused maybe a little childhood trauma cause I can actually remember just what it feels like to to get a turkey wing in the face! So that is why that little animation is significant to me.