Sparkle (named so because of his crow love of shiny items and his naturally sparkling & attractive hairstyle.) had only been married to Slender-wing (named so because of her naturally slender & attractive body while loving Colonel Sanders' KFC wings for a snack at the same time.) for just over a year.
This was one of these unusual modern day fairy tales where it was actually deep routed, "old fashioned" true love & respect in comparison to fleeting rot that so often happens these days.....
By the 7th month of their beautiful marriage, Slender-wing was showing obvious signs of her 9 month pregnancy that was hidden at the wedding because Pastor Owl Hooter always screeched that it was immoral to do the feather over feather thing before marriage.
Since their marriage, Sparkle had been working himself to the claw at the local seed producing plant in order to provide for the love of his life and soon to be family.
In this ninth month of Slender Wings' pregnancy she was getting quite large and spent a lot of time sleeping and waddling around their 5th floor tree apartment looking for snacks in their fridge while also starting to suffer from morning sickness.
On this particular day she happened to glance out their custom made round porthole front door that had been a wedding gift from the master craftsman Woodpecker carpentry (aptly named Wood-chuck-I'do at birth.)
What she spotted below was the equivalent prize to a pregnant crow as it would have been to Davey Crocket while panning for gold in the Mississippi River, during the Wild West gun slinging days and finding a gold nugget larger than his knee cap.
She waddled out and swooped down on it.....
What she found was six pieces of 12 secret spiced & herbed chickedee nuggets that had fallen out of a hikers backpack & were still steaming warm.....
She licked her beak as she was about to tuck in and initially decided that she would keep half of the treat for Sparkle when he returned home from his hard day at work.
Sadly, her love of "her" pieces that she ate, were just too overpoweringly delectable in her pregnant state that she ended up everything in the box (lets blame it on junior in her tummy.)
Just after the delectable feast she started feeling pangs of guilt of of not carrying out her mantra of "sharing is caring" by saving some for Sparkle and fell soundly asleep with a very full belly atop the takeaway box.
Shortly after, a very tired, factory working Sparkle came flying over on his way home after an incredibly hard days' work at the seed factory. Just then he spotted his new pregnant "lifeless" bride lying atop the Colonel Sanders box in the middle of the field below their home.
His heart skipped fifty Eagle beats as he swooped down to investigate.......
What he found was the following atop the Colonel's face on a box....
As he landed with worry his beautiful newly wed bride slightly opened one eye and groaned in tummy pain agony....
Was this from morning sickness or overeating the nearby Colonel? That fluttered out his mind instantly as his only concern was for his bride & new family.....as it should be,,,,
To hear what happened further.....
RE: Let Our Picture Tell Your Story - Edition 31