Day 174: Wild Turkey Tale

It may be 156 days since we first walked the Wild Turkey Trail +1, but we have now had a confirmed sighting of the bird in question. This family group stopped the traffic near our new house and then in mad blogger style, we chased them down a side road to get the evidence.

Today was my last day at work for a while as I have a bit of time off for the house move. Hopefully we can get properly settled in quite quickly this way. We had some rewiring done today - a new electric panel (consumer unit to the UK readers). The old one contained circuit 'breakers' that have a tendency to get stuck with the circuit made rather than breaking if they get overloaded. Horror stories here.

We were over there this evening putting the girls' beds together. A new 'twin' (i.e. single) bed for Exile #3 and her old toddler bed for Exile #4. They both seemed very happy about it and duly put themselves to bed for a few minutes.

Some time ago, when moving out here was first proposed, my colleagues and I undertook to have a game of cricket in a public place on 4th July as a gentle British answer to the celebration of American independence. Unfortunately we are not quite up to the required numbers this year, but watch this space for a post-match report on Day 540. In fact we have been invited to a more traditional celebration - if the weather holds - of barbecue (including s'mores) and a firework show. There seem to be organised firework shows in every town tomorrow, they have to be organised because buying and setting off fireworks yourself is illegal in New York. We will therefore not be setting any off ourselves - and since the rewiring was completed, we should hopefully avoid any unplanned ones too.