{"id":3072,"date":"2011-05-12T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2011-05-13T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:21:07","slug":"looking-out-my-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/looking-out-my-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Out My Window"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTuesday evening, I sat down to get a little work done.\u00a0 I was updating my Linux computer system<\/a> and hoping to work on a few George comic strip ideas.<\/p>\n

It’s warming up here in Northeast Ohio, so I opened up a window.<\/p>\n

About three to four minutes after I opened the window, I heard a large ruffling sound.\u00a0 I looked up from the keyboard.\u00a0 Just out the window, I saw a large peacock!\u00a0 Yes! A life-size, NBC, full-color peacock!<\/p>\n

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I have no idea how it got here.\u00a0 I shot some video and snapped a few pictures. I was hoping for its tail to fan open, but that never happened.<\/p>\n

I realize I live way out in the sticks, but in all the years I’ve been out in this neck of the woods, I’ve NEVER seen anything like this before.<\/p>\n

Sure, we see our share of woodpeckers, hawks, ducks, geese, possum, racoons, beaver…you name it.\u00a0 But a peacock?<\/p>\n

Ironically, just today, I was telling a friend that nothing new and exciting has happened.\u00a0 It’s been the same old, same old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I contacted the the Ohio Ornithological Society<\/a> and they wrote back saying, “Thanks for the photos, Mark. Peacocks <\/a>escape sometimes from farms or zoos or private collections, but they’re not found in the “wild” of Ohio–not that there’s much wild in Ohio these days! Interesting critter to have wandering the neighborhood. Likely someone is missing it”<\/p>\n

So, there you have.\u00a0 An escaped peacock.<\/p>\n

There’s a comic strip idea in there somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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