Duck – Now!
Friday, 28. March 2008 10:46
We have a mystery at our house, a silly mystery, but a mystery all the same.
On our front lawn there are four geese that appear to be grazing on the lawn. They look so real that people will stop, back up, and look again. The geese have become a neighborhood favorite.
Our neighborhood has a diverse personality, not only among the people who live on our little dirt road, but also in the animals that live here. My neighbor has miniatures: three donkeys, three goats, and a pig. Needless to say, the donkeys can be pretty noisy when someone approaches their area, the goats just bleat quietly, and the pig makes little noise. If you get down-wind of their pen, you can tell there are animals nearby without seeing a thing.
At our house, our big dog Jake announces every visitor whether a person or a visiting annimal. He has a hound-like baying he makes, which isn’t typical of Norwegian Elkhounds, even though they’re in the hound family.
So, you can see that part of the popularity of our geese is that they neither honk (a goose-like quality) nor do they poop and stink up the yard.![]()
What’s the mystery? Well, every morning,
something has knocked over the geese.
This morning one is sitting back on his tail in surprise,
while another seems to have had a bad landing and is trying to play ostrich with his head in the grass.
Still another is eating away in a flower bed full of
weeds.
The last goose looks like he knows something and is ready to attack it,![]()
if he can figure out what “IT” is.
There’s the mystery. We don’t know who or what is tipping over our geese, but every morning when we look out, there they are in some un-goose-like position. I’ve begun to wonder if it’s the weeds growing under their feet. It’s a mystery to me.
I’ll upload pictures in a minute here.
Later —————-
Well, the pictures are here, but I can’t figure out how to get them placed correctly in the text. I guess you’ll have to work it out.
Marilynne
Thema: Everything Else, Mysterious things, Writing | Kommentare (2) | Autor: Marilynne





