10/13/2026
So, yesterday while my daughter was out for a ride, she found a crow on the forest floor with a broken wing. She got off her horse, gently picked up the crow; it let her, and carried it back to the stable in her lap. She then called around and actually found a vet that would try to rehabilitate it, if at all possible. Hopefully, that will be the case, it seemed fine other than the wing. It ate some food, drank some water, pooped, bit us, alllll the things…After finding a vet, she called me and asked if I could come get it and drive it to the vet, over an hour away. Iff ya know me, ya knowww, I went to get the crow!! We, me and my new travel buddy, listened to some Celtic jams, while I talked to it about its healing journey and how we’re trying to help it, not harm it, on the way there. It remained very calm the whole way. Oddly enough, right when we pulled up in the parking lot, one solitary crow flew up into a tree and started talking. That was interesting…
The vet that took it in actually has a pet crow, with only one wing, that they rescued over 11 years ago. It lives in the office in a huge bird cage that has alll the doors wide open! It’s the biggest crow I’ve ever seen. It’s my understanding that it lives there with a small dog and that they’re best friends!
This morning, I rescued a wood pe**er that has been on my last nerve for months, because it’s pecking holes all in my house. Fifty million trees around and it pecks my damn house. Today, it was after something and somehow managed to get caught between the screen and the window. Mayyybe, she won’t mess with my house anymore… I had a little chat with her, you know, like “I’m saving your pecking holes in my house azzz, you know that, right? Even after all the damage you’ve caused…. Sooo, I’m thinking you should never peck my house again, and you should tell alllll your family and friends, cause she’s invited them all to the pecking parties, to leave MY house alone! Cause I’m an awesome human and yeah, that’s enough.” We’ll see how that works out. lol
The point of these stories is “we all get by with a little help from our friends!” We’re all here, on this beautiful planet and we ALL NEED ONE ANOTHER! You never know who will be there to help you. It may be the person, or animal, you expect the very least. I’m sure that little woodpe**er was shocked that the crazy lady that usually screams and yells at her, while banging the house with a broom and threatening her with a water gun, would be her saving grace today.
ONE LOVE, PEOPLE! ONE LOVE. We all share the same Creator. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It’s SO EASY.
If you have it in you, send out a prayer and some healing, positive energy to the little crow. I’ll post the outcome when I know it. Hopefully, I’ll be driving back to pick it up and bring it back to the Chattahoochee to release it where it lives, back with its family. They’re amazingly smart, beautiful birds; the crows and the woodpe**ers. It’s an honor to be able to help them out.
