The Insomniac: Tales from the darkside....

Four in the A.M......
T’ain’t bad enuff, we got roosters crowing at all hours of the day ‘n nite....’n last nite some critter came a-roaming ‘n upset all the dogs...we also got us a Peahen...
Peafowl are birds native to India ‘n Sri Lanka. They do not migrate which means, I s’poze, that we’re stuck with her until she dies, gets killed ‘n eaten by one of our nighttime critters or until one of my neighbors gets so tired of her airhorn voice calling in the night that she gets murdered...her voice is so irritating that some might call it justifiable homicide...
She hangs out with the chickens all day ‘n roosts with ‘em at night..she flies considerably better than the chickens ‘n takes flight at the slightest provocation...
One of my greatest fears is that some one will find her a mate ‘n she’ll begin breeding like the durn chickens....still, I haven’t seen any Peahen eggs (dunno if I could bring m’self to eat one or not...don’t like the wild chicken eggs, too strong for me now that I’m a septugenarian)....
We have a great diversity in our feral fowl here in Ol Fair Oaks....people drop off exotic chickens all the time ‘n chickens, of course, being chickens ‘n not birds of a feather breed somewhat indiscriminately, the result being some really colorful progeny.....
A lot of the tourists that come thru our little village here spend a lot of time oohing ‘n ahhing over our colorful fowl ‘n they share the mistaken belief that the birds are somehow ‘protected by law’.....
A number of people (a lot of dotty old g’parents) bring little children to admire ‘n feed these feral fowl...they take fotos ‘n encourage little children to ‘pet’ the pretty bird...we’ve been very fortunate so far, only a few people have been attacked by the ‘pretty birds’ and none of ‘em seriously hurt....I still recall the disbelief on one mans face however, as he sputtered, “that damn bird attacked me!”
And the fireman who got so upset that he called Animal Control only t’be told that the birds are wild ‘n nothing they can do...ah well, the trials ‘n tribulations of living in Eden.....what’re ya gonna do?