I’ve just counted it up – the emus were gone for seven days – a whole week! Well, we now know they weren’t exactly gone and they were just in the next door paddock but wow! You have to realize that these paddocks are huge and the emus are still relatively small at one year of age. Also they blend in and, from a distance, look like tree stumps or branches. Or perhaps I need glasses!
Jenny, the farmer who owns the paddock, and I, had a big laugh on the phone about why they would prefer her paddock to ours, and Terry’s wife, Kaye, quoted the old saying, ‘the grass is always greener’, but what I find most interesting is that, instead of running for the hills, the emus stuck around.
It’s such a strange feeling to have actually let them go, in my heart and head, and now they’re back. For days, I comforted myself by imagining that they were frolicking in the forests, drinking from the streams, making friends with wild emus, and I actually accepted they were probably better off. Now I realize they didn’t want to go. The paddock they were in was on the corner of two roads and very easy to get out of (much easier than getting back into our paddock – go figure!)
With only three Emerys left (and the death of the fourth haunts me), the happy ending is a little tainted, however it is a beautiful thing to have them back. Once back in their yard, they went straight to the water trough and then to the bowl of wheat, then looked at me, and my container of cabbage, with glee!
This one is much more interested in my ring than the cabbage (they love anything shiny).
My beautiful Emerys! I will take them for a SHORT walk later today.
Maybe!
jmgoyder 
Hi,
It really is great to see new photos of the emus, and I smiled when I saw the emu more interested in your ring than the food, the look on the face, “Hmmm this look interesting”.
Yes and one was actually biting my ring and my finger – ouch!
I had to smile when you said “my Beautiful Emerys.” I used to read a beautifully illustrated book called Edward the Emu to my students and we loved it. The premise was that Edward was bored, so he spent the day trying to be other animals instead of himself. It didn’t work of course, and at the end of the day he heard someone say that the emu was the best thing at the zoo, so he raced back to find another emu had taken his place. She introduced herself as “Edwina,” and he decided that being an emu was just fine. (You can have the story read to you on youtube. What a riot! 😉 )
~ Lynda
PS: I heard recently that it is a scientific fact that the grass IS greener on the other side of the fence. It had something to do with the sunlight and your field of vision… LOL!
Oh my!!!!! I thought I was putting in a link and the video popped up in my reply! I am so sorry I had no idea that I could make that happen! Sorry, sorry, sorry!
Lynda
I haven’t been able to stop laughing because when I clicked comments the video was the first I saw, so I watched it all, screaming with laughter at you accidentally putting it in!
A very profound response – hehe!
Well then, it’s all good! Glad it made you laugh!!! 😉
I am still laughing!
Those emus sure are getting big.
Maybe they just wanted a holiday from their everyday life, but didn’t want to go ‘overseas’ – they just wanted a short ‘Getaway’ in the local area.
I am going to have to get leashes!