Gotta Love Zilker!

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Gotta love Zilker. Gotta love South Austin.

This morning on the Zilker list serve someone posted a note saying three roosters and chickens showed up in her back yard (was anyone missing theirs?) Later, someone posted that she was missing hers (popped the fence over a street, she said – has anyone seen them?)

On the list serve, plenty of information has passed about the standard stuff: lost dogs and cats, dogs and cats found, etc.

But also we’ve seen information about parrots in trees outside their kitchen window, a pack of parakeets (were they the ones released years ago? – no one could be sure), wandering peacocks (were they from Bouldin Creek’s Green Pasture restaurant? – no, called the owner, not theirs), a fox on the loose (keep your small pets inside!)….

When I first bought my property in Zilker, a neighbor from across the street startled me as I was checking my tire.

I was down low and felt like she was hovering over me. She had a parrot on her shoulder. If she noticed my surprise, she sure didn’t show it.

Later in the week, she brought her goat over to eat my grass. Saved me a mow.

And while I haven’t seen any pot-bellied pigs in Zilker, I have seen them, and turkeys, and bunnies, just one neighborhood over, in Bouldin.

78704? Full of interesting surprises. Gotta love it.