The Pink Flamingo

People are preparing for their gardens.
Construction is beginning on new homes and new neighborhoods.

The pink flamingo appears.

Today, on my delivery route, I saw the pink flamingo before I saw the sun. It stood, thin legged and pink, in someone's lawn. It was made of plastic. It was made to graze in this lawn and stand wobbly in brown grass. When I returned from my second route, I told the Ghost about the flamingo.

"The flamingo's up!" he said.

The flamingo is notorious, apparently. Every year, the flamingo appears and moves from one lawn to another. No one knows who moves it, although some have mentioned the name, Thor.

What I think is even more mysterious is the reason as to why pink flamingos were manufactured as lawn ornaments. Strange! Sure, they're beautiful, but why not the ostrich? Or the kangaroo?

Why not giant sticks of butter! *sigh* Now that would be something!