Feels like dead person walking

By Alex Carrier

Nothing like a circling vulture to make you feel really sick. And, I had just gotten to that point of certainty where I knew I would have to get better to die.

All friends and family were unanimous in their diagnosis of flu but since the official season ended 2 weeks before I got sick, the nurse informed me I had – a virus.

Weeks of pharmaceuticals and cartons of juice and tissues later, I was well enough to feel only vaguely ill. And then –

A trip down the driveway to our mailbox was shadowed by a vulture. Make that vultures. A flock of 20-30 buzzards slowly flying overhead in ever tightening circles.

Perhaps I wasn’t much better after all. But, not to worry. The buzzards were not harbingers of my imminent demise…obviously. Just more local characters.

Seems that Capistrano has its returning swallows and Greene County has its returning buzzards. I don’t know when they left or where they went but they are back now.

The turkey vultures have returned to their warm weather haunts which just happens to be near my home. Wonderful.

While I am not completely thrilled to have such dubious neighbors, there is some solace in knowing they are not here specifically for me…yet.

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