NorthernDaddy works in Essex Junction, which is about six miles from Burlington. (As a refresher for non-Vermonters, Burlington is the largest city in Vermont.) Essex Junction is not exactly a tiny town, either. There are quite a few large businesses with a presence in Essex Junction - the most notable being IBM, with five thousand employees. In fact, my workspace is an old IBM office building that has been converted into a warehouse. We are less than a quarter mile from IBM's manufacturing plant, right next door to a large Homeland Security office, and smack in the middle of two other warehouses. Get the idea?--we're not located in some forgotten Vermont backwoods. We're in the "city".
As industrial as the above location might sound, we're actually in a quite nice place. From my office window, I can see the two largest mountains in the state. (My 'office' is actually only a 8x10 nook roofed with plastic sheeting. But I've got two huge windows and a forty-thousand- square-foot filing cabinet behind me, so it's not bad!) We're a hundred feet from the Winooski River. It's quiet (unless a truck is pulling into the lot) and there are pretty apple trees planted around the building.
One of the benefits to living and working in Vermont is that the local wildlife visits on a pretty regular basis. We've had deer wander through the parking lot (a friend in downtown Burlington had chickens touring his place. Chickens! At work. In the city...) and our flock of turkeys comes through when it's not hunting season. (I'm guessing that they're smart enough to know what a shotgun looks like....) The photo below is from a day or two ago.
There were twelve hens and one HUGE tom. There's a picture of him below. Sorry about the poor quality of the photos - I was using the work camera and shooting through the [dirty] windows.
The best part was when I brought the pictures home to show Levi. He looked at the birds and correctly identified them as turkeys. Then, he pointed at the picture, pointed at his mouth, and said, "I eat!" No kidding! We didn't prompt him or anything - he just popped that one out all on his own! That's our Northern Baby!
There were twelve hens and one HUGE tom. There's a picture of him below. Sorry about the poor quality of the photos - I was using the work camera and shooting through the [dirty] windows.
The best part was when I brought the pictures home to show Levi. He looked at the birds and correctly identified them as turkeys. Then, he pointed at the picture, pointed at his mouth, and said, "I eat!" No kidding! We didn't prompt him or anything - he just popped that one out all on his own! That's our Northern Baby!
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