Many of you do not know that my Dad is a farmer through and through.  I grew up on a dairy farm and let me tell you, it is by far the best way to grow up.  You learn all kinds of responsibility, poise and values.  Yes, I absolutely said poise.  Your looking at the 1996 Douglas County Dairy Princess!  I had to have learned something to achieve such a title.  But that’s besides the point.  My parents have been retired from dairy farming for around 10 years now and I think my dad misses being “busy”.  You know, feeding the cows and plinking around on the farm.  So to fill his void of cows, he has acquired birds.  Birds.  Sigh. Chickens so that he can pick the eggs and sell them locally.  That’s right!  Organically grown eggs and they are DELICIOSO!  We had eggs every day were home this last time.  Yumm!  Ducks so that they can get their little heads stuck in the cage that my dad has made for them.  We got Dad’s ducks out of a couple sticky situations while we were home.  And last but not least, Peacocks.  I don’t believe they serve any purpose whatsoever but they sure are beautiful.  You really can’t go in the cage and hang out with them.  I guess his Peacocks are  a little territorial and they might peck the heck outta ya.  He has a male and a female.  I believe he will try to breed them but I’m not quite sure.  I think he has them just because they’re beautiful and people will drive by the farm and stop in just to see the Peacocks.  Just like they did when we had a pet Deer.  Oh yes, Roxy.  Roxy ate too much corn one day and bloated and passed away on us when I was like 10 or something but we indeed did have a pet Deer.  So without further ado, here are my beautiful eyes that my Daddy picked for me right before we left on our last trip home.

Just gorgeous! And apparently, they won't get ugly and discolored. They'll stay this way.

I promise the Dad didn't pluck these right off the birds! The male had shed, so he picked them off the ground people! The ground!

And this is exactly how my Ma wanted me to display them. In a beautiful vase where people could see my Dad's beautiful tail feathers.

Yup, right in front of my Glade Plugin:)