Then there was the morning I walked outside to see three huge vultures perched on my neighbor's roof. Yikes. Talk about creepy. It was in October and at first I thought they were just really odd Halloween decorations. Nope. The real deal.

We live about a mile south of a major lake (maybe not even quite that far), so while we are in a completely residential area, we apparently are just close enough to the lake to get some interesting wildlife at times.

We used to have a huge beaver dam on a creek just around the corner, but they built a neighborhood around it. I think they relocated the beavers somewhere but I'm not sure where.