Wild Peacock in... Centerville?

So Colton and I were driving around Centerville, and we were trying to find a hiking trail that led to a small waterfall. After driving for a while and not seeing any sort of a trail head, we came across a very odd site: a peacock off the side of the road! We watched it for a while, then proceeded to call the Hogle zoo, Lagoon, and the Wild Animal refuge center to see if anyone had lost a peacock. No one had, but we learned that it was legal to own peacocks as pets. So we drove up the long driveway behind some trees to a house and knocked on their door. After a young man answered, we asked if he had a pet peacock, and he proceeded to tell us that it wasn't theirs; it just showed up one day about a year ago and stayed put. The neighbors feed it. So there you have it. A sight I never even imagined I would see in Davis County. I felt bad for the peacock though, maybe it was lonely. It needs a peahen. Maybe someday I'll find one and bring it by.

Gardening

So I decided that I could totally becoming a hippie and live off of the "fruits of the land" and be perfectly content. With Bree and Ben off on their adventures in Europe for the summer, Colton and I have taken over the care of their garden. Colton got the garden all ready and planted (for whatever reason I wasn't there that day) and we've got carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, sunflowers, onions, red peppers, strawberries, garlic, basil, and cilantro. I love weeding and watering the plants, and taking care of the garden. Apparently we planted super early, like weeks before the farmers all did. But hey, now all our stuff will be bigger and better than everyone else's! it has been lots of work, going during the rain or snow-forecasts to cover the entire garden with towels, buckets, and bed sheets. The cantaloup we planted never grew, and the strawberry plants that survived are from Bree and Ben's previous plantings. Other than that everything else survived pretty well, and we're already getting delicious strawberries!

Our tomato and pepper plant who both died but then resurrected inside

Sunflower, carrots, peppers, potatoes, from back to front

Our onion plant with a flower

Something is eating the strawberries

These freaking annoying weeds that are invading our garden

The very beginning of the garden

Putting bags over them every night to keep them from dying

My rock path because I didn't know where Colton had planted

Night Night plants!