This Whole Gregorka Zoo Thing is Becoming a Reality

The Gregorka Zoological Park annual Christmas (well really New Years) letter has been an ongoing joke for as long as I can remember. We are a highly anti-animal family (besides the allowance of our pet Brian)...err it's headed by very anti-animal people so it's really actually ridiculous that we refer to ourselves as a zoo. Hahaha I suppose we were enough to handle...without adding the zoo aspect on top of it all. ANYWAYS.

It all started with the bats (during some winter month...I think)...that we discovered due to Brian's apparent superior sense of hearing. Lots of little scratchy noises do not in fact always mean mice, you could be graced with the presence of the friendly batty creatures instead! Right so...we had Critter Control come and do their thing. Their thing otherwise known as install some sort of device which allows the birds of the night to peace out of the house, but not re-enter...in the spring...when they were done with the whole vacation from life known as hibernation (gosh how great would that be?!).

Anyways. We upgraded this summer to the peacock. Yes, a peacock. It was a female which kinda sorta sucks, cuz they don't have that flashy tail their male counterparts are graced with, but I'm not complaining. Apparently there are a few that just roam about southeast Michigan? I'm not too sure...I have eavesdropped and overheard so many different explanations of how they wound up on Ridgemor that I just go with my first explanation. It supposedly has exited the area...not sure if it got sick of the scenery around these parts or if it was forced to find some new walking grounds...but it's gone.

Finally we had the woodpecker rather recently. The highly intellectual bird flew into the garage, but couldn't seem to figure out how to get out. And it flipped out anytime anyone went near it, knocking its head on the ceiling (most likely causing even more damage to its tiny bird brain). Who knows. Faj backed his car out so that it wouldn't get bombed by little bird turds and then he rescued the thing. Now he's really proud of his efforts when it comes to this gigantic feat, so don't poke fun. Faj had the genius to chase Woody the Woodpecker around the garage, get it under the umbrella, and direct it out to a safe flight zone. Who knew. So many talents. It's mind-boggling at times.

So yes, perhaps we need to change the newsletter to the Gregorka Aviary...doesn't quite have the same ring though...