Mystery Bird

Sunday morning Mom and I found this bird hanging out by our pool after breakfast. We think it's some kind of sea bird, but have no idea what kind. Anybody know?
The thing was about two and a half feet tall with a minimum wingspan of six feet; how on earth did our dogs not notice it for over ten minutes?!

The Harvest Crusade was absolutely amazing; 4365 people gave their lives to the Lord on Saturday alone! (Which reminds me: I've got some follow-up calls/e-mails to make/send tomorrow!) David Crowder Band and the Newsboys were so incredibly awesome!I was totally blown away by the number of people down on the field those three nights, and even more so by the fact that God would use me to help bring it about! Oooh, I get butterflies just thinking about it!
On the downside, I saw a couple of my friends but didn't get a chance to say hi because neither of them ever came close enough, and I didn't want to just holler at them (they tend to go mysteriously deaf whenever I do that anyway), so I just talked with Mom while I knit Zachary's vest, who by the way also got to do decision follow-up counseling on the field the last two nights, which was amazing! One of them just kept whizzing by me on Friday so fast I could barely draw breath to call them over before they were out of earshot. ...Oh well.
Zach's vest is blocking downstairs now, ready to be sewn up, the ribbing knitted around the neck and armholes, and the accent lines for the argyles duplicate stitched on tomorr-- er, that is, today, on his 14th birthday(!). I'm taking no chances with mold as it lays out to dry tonight, with the ceiling fan on high and the light on, as I just lost $30 worth of soaked white Cascade 220 waiting to be dyed and sold on eBay today to mold. Apparently, even wonderfully mold-resistant wool will become infested if you leave it wet and on a dark bookshelf for two weeks... What was I thinking? Well, the last thing would have been to dry it quick in case I didn't get to use the kitchen the next morning, lest it should be eaten through by mold.
However, I did sell my two dyed skeins to the lovely Sandy of California Crafts on eBay, so all is not lost...
Well, my youngest brother Nathaniel is bugging me to get off the compy and go to bed now, and since he's totally right, I think I'll do just that. G'night!