Comments on: Bird Help

By: Barbara Martin

Barbara Martin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:44:11 +0000

Jenny, there are birds that are showing up in Hawaii that come from the west coast of Canada and farther inland. They arrived via a stormfront, which is perhaps how these birds arrived at your residence.

By: Kate M.

Kate M. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:57:26 +0000

My guess would have been what some others have already mentioned–perhaps they are escapees from a farm or private breeder. Why breed peacocks, I don’t know, but I’m sure there are people out there who deem it necessary.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:15:23 +0000

Meredith, thank you! That was everything I needed to know. They haven’t come back, probably because of the rotten dogs, but now I know what to do if they do: build them a nice hutch.

And thank you all for reading Bet Me and for the link to the D&G discussion and for the recommendations on the Peacock Room which I will definitely see because I love the Smithsonian and I haven’t seen nearly enough of it. Also the National Gallery. And I loved Whedon’s speech, too. I forgive him for Serenity. Not that he cares.

And now, back to the copy edits. I’m going to finish them today or die trying.

By: Mary Stella

Mary Stella — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:44:20 +0000

ruthie asked:
1. Do peacocks molt and maybe the males lose their long feathers periodically?

Yes, they do. I could be all the dancing and shaking they do when courting peahens in the spring. *g*

By: ruthie

ruthie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:46:20 +0000

Two questions: 1. Do peacocks molt and maybe the males lose their long feathers periodically? 2. Have you been moonllighting doing beading videos?

By: RfP

RfP — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:05:39 +0000

You’ve probably seen this Joss Whedon speech from Equality Now (2006), but it’s new to me and I’m charmed. His remarks begin at 2:00.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaczoJMRhs

By: Mary Stella

Mary Stella — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:30:23 +0000

Jenny, that’s definitely a peacock. We have several here in the Florida Keys at the dolphin facility where I work, as well as peahens and, this time of year, some chicks. My guess is that the picture is either of an immature peacock, or it’s a mature peacock at the time when he has shed his magnificent feathers. This usually happens beginning around July (after the courting season.) The feathers will grow back.

So, what’s he doing in Ohio? He could be an escapee from someplace, even a private someplace that has them. They’ve been known to travel. There are parts of Coral Gables and South Miami that are inundated with peafowl.

By: Lou

Lou — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:00:42 +0000

Jenny – I was just over at RunningwithQuills. Susan Andersen posted a blog asking readers what they are reading (short version of her blog).

Bottom line is that a whole bunch of commentors, including other authors that commented, said that they were enjoying Dogs and Goddesses.

Thought you might like to know that. . .

By: expertbookworm

expertbookworm — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:29:01 +0000

Okay, I usually lurk – but do none of your read Donna Andrews’ mysteries? The first was murder with peacocks.

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:21:48 +0000

Clearly, this is an omen. That room in the Smithsonian is gawjus. So you have screaming peakocks and the Smithsonian room. The rest will come, but now you can start collecting for the collage. *g*

By: Megan Pencek

Megan Pencek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:35:00 +0000

I am a Columbus resident. While I haven’t heard of peahens & peacocks running loose, I know that the Columbus Zoo has quite a large passle of them. They are noisy and, once in awhile, one will sit on the roof of one of the little outbuildings. (Strange, right?) If one can get on a roof, maybe they can get other places…like OUT of the zoo. Perhaps you have a peafowl family which escaped the zoo…this season or one prior. Do we know that they actually keep numbers of the peafowl residing there? I’m not sure.

I also know, here in Ohio, almost anything goes! So, why not peacocks?

Aren’t they lovely to look at? (And so noisy!)

By: Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:58:03 +0000

Jenny, if you’re going to be in DC for RWA check out the Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery. It’s on the Mall near the Smithsonian Castle.

http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/peacock/default.htm

By: McB

McB — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:49:53 +0000

Audiobooks are the main reason I got my first iPod. Jenny, your books work well in audio because you do great dialog and are very good at putting the reader in the character’s head with a minimum of words.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:18:29 +0000

If you put the peacocks in a book, be sure to include a white one. I think they are somehow even more beautiful than the colorful ones.

By: Sure thing

Sure thing — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:56:58 +0000

To steal a radio metaphor – Bet Me is always in high rotation in my place. But not an audio version, the book.

Forgot to add that Peacocks have significance in Hinduism and some of the temples keep them too.

As for using them in a book, ‘s cool if you don’t- I think I might.

By: skay

skay — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:47:24 +0000

Naaah, the peafowl want to be included in You Again! They arrived just to make sure the house on the river would be a suitable home. I can just hear them screaming around that house both past and present.

I just finished Bet Me again too. It does work great on an Ipod. You can fold laundry and still enjoy Min.

By: Meredith B.

Meredith B. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:39:55 +0000

Funny– looks like lots of us are reading or listening to /Bet Me/ right now. It’s a good one to reread. It’s one of my epiphany books.

By: Diane (TT)

Diane (TT) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:28:18 +0000

I was thinking AKMG would be a good place for peacocks. Don’t care, though – write what you want, it’ll be fab.

I’m listening to Bet Me again – I put it on my iPod to make walking around less boring (the peacocks were unusual: mostly at this time of year it’s plain old traffic and the not-particularly-decorative type of construction worker). It was weird importing the files – NONE of them were named Bet Me (I know this was true with some of the AatHM discs, too, but I don’t think ALL of them); there was a variety of authors and titles. SO much fun to listen to!

D – I think the 2 moose omen was that it was a bad day to try to drive anywhere!

By: D.

D. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:00:33 +0000

Oh, yes. The screaming peacocks definitely need to get worked into a novel somehow.

Now, I wonder what the omen was for the two moose that were in my driveway?

By: Meredith B.

Meredith B. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:33:44 +0000

It’s the Cincinnati Zoo, but they have hutches they can go in to as well, and they spend a lot more time in there in the Winter than they do in the Summer.