#62 - March 15th, 2006

Greetings, good readers. Yes, I’m still here, hanging on by the tip of my beak despite a feeling that the A.V.A. hierarchy no longer embraces me with open arms. Hopefully, unlike last week when it was mysteriously changed, this article will appear under its long-standing and correct title of “Bird’s Eye View” – strange goings on, wouldn’t you say?...Meanwhile the column has certainly lost a little of its “sparkle” since the enforced cutbacks in length were introduced a month or so ago and, with increased editing, it is not the quality hack-writing and free-flowing gibberish it used to be. Nevertheless, for now I remain, and may be there will have to be snowfall on the rooftops in Boonville before I am “disappeared”…(Ooops!)…..
Meanwhile, whilst not wishing to alarm you too much, I have been a little under the weather over the past few days and am unable to contribute a full column this week. Don’t panic - it’s just a touch of avian flu, nothing to worry about I’m sure. As a result, I have not been “out and about” on my travels and have little to report on…..
Have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day - “enjoy yourselves and stay out of the ditches”…But before you do so, “let us prey”…Humbly yours, Turkey Vulture…..