White Meat Flight

This week I hosted my second annual turkey drawing challenge, an event that elicited surprisingly strong responses from Whitecastle and NiceDoc this year and as always, drew even more awesome commentary from Sister Claire- which got us talking about the wild turkeys in her neighborhood who are conspicuously absent this week. My mind immediately suspected foul play on the neighbors' part but Sister Claire was much less sinister, and also showed much greater faith in the turkeys. She believes that they sensed Thanksgiving's arrival and fled north to Canada, where Thanksgiving has already been celebrated (being much closer to Plymouth, Canadian Pilgrims arrived much earlier, hence celebrating Thanksgiving in early October). No wonder the eagle beat out turkey as national bird. An eagle would never flee to Canada.