In January, I posted about a mysterious bird that appeared in our yard. Today, that mystery was solved!
The 1/2 child was wandering the neighborhood today, trying to solve a little vandalism problem that’s been going on around here. Well not solve it, but at least find some evidence that would allow someone else to solve the problem. In his wanderings, he stopped to talk to a woman who lives up the street. She said she’d pass the word and see if she could find someone who might have some clues.
Later, she stopped at the house to see if he’d had any luck. We were sitting outside on the stoop. The 1/2 child went over to her car to talk to her. I eavesdropped. And then I heard her say something that directly effected me “I’m the one who is responsible for the parrot.”
I jumped up and said YOU!?! You did that?? She laughed and said that she and her husband loved our flamingos so much that they wanted to give us a gift. So she snuck up to the front yard, or tried to since her husband thought it would be funny to blast the horn a few times and get her caught (which didn’t work, oddly enough).
I thanked her and told her how I’d tried to figure out where the bird came from. I told her I’d blogged it. It was funny. What is funnier is she owns the restaurant that my son works at. She had no clue that he lived in the house where she left the parrot. Heh. Life is funny. Mystery solved.
Haha. I think I like this woman.
Now that’s a great story. I like the woman too.
Aww that’s a cute story. =)
Bwah! Now that is a fantastic story. You have to like a neighbor who will do that type of thing!
Should I send her to you, Lorena? I’m sure she’d be happy to leave you a parrot too. 🙂
Somehow I missed this story. But it’s a good one. I’m still laughing…So do you still have the gatorbird??
Yep I still have the gator bird. He’s been named Leonardo now.