So did you have turkey for the holiday, whichever one you celebrated, and are you tired of the leftovers yet? We had a very simple meal featuring a smallish turkey but will be eating leftovers for a few days. Personally I’m very fond of turkey sandwiches, but you can only eat so many sandwiches. So [...]
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Did you buy three ready-to-cook turkeys today on Gabriola, and somehow lose them on the way home? I found them in the middle of North Road, still in their plastic bags. Seemed stupid to leave them there, so I’ve moved them to the side of the road in hopes that you’ll see this and know [...]
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How often have you stopped to let a flock of turkeys cross the road? As you pause and let the birds go by, remember that other communities have feral turkey flocks, too. [continue] The nerve! Now, by the way: are there any laws that would prohibit the catching and eating of wild turkeys on Gabriola? [...]
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Did you get a turkey from Boultons? Will there be pie? We don’t do turkey on Thanksgiving, which is lucky for the Gabriola wild turkeys (like this one) who roam our neighbourhood and vex the dog.
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Remember I wrote about the turkey in our yard, and then about the Gabriola turkeys wandering along the road? Well, somehow this turkey thing we’ve got happening here on on Gabriola has become big news. First I heard from two newspapers, explaining that they were going to do an article about our turkeys. One wanted [...]
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There are 25 wild turkeys in this particular flock. I met them on South Road at Lochinvar, just across the street from the Gabriola Museum. Later they moved up the road a bit to the Gabriola RCMP Station. And later? They’ll be at your house, oh yes they will, terrorizing your dog. That turkey at [...]
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We’ve been amused by peacocks in other people’s neighbourhoods around Gabriola, because — ha ha! — it’s funny and the birds are interesting. I’ve even blogged about Morri H. Mostow’s Gabriola peacocks. We’ve been equally amused at other kinds of free-range fowl who seem to wander anywhere they please on other parts of the island. [...]
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