It’s going to rain this morning. Joey got up early, bolted his coffee, and ran outside to mow the front yard (and hopefully backyard too!!) before the heavens open. Our front yard all of a sudden got overgrown and scraggly. Making us look like the neighborhood lazies. So perhaps you can understand why Joey is so motivated to get the thing mowed.
Ana and I were sitting on the couch eating our bagels and grapefruit while getting our daily dose of Lame Stream Media in the form of the TODAY show when Joey rang the doorbell. Anyone who knows anything about our family will not be surprised to hear that when that doorbell rang, I assumed he was somehow bleeding or missing a limb.
Turns out, this time he wasn’t!!
I feel like I need to knock on a 300 year old sequoia after I say this, but maybe he’s growing out of the accident prone phase?
Instead of blood, what he wanted to show us was a pair of rogue Canadian Geese wandering around our yard and honking.
Ana totally loves Canadian Geese. They make noises like dogs (she loves dogs) and they are HUGE BIRDS (she loves birds).
So Ana and I chased them around our yard and tried to corral them into the backyard fence, despite the fact that Joey wouldn’t help us. (Which I’m sure is no surprise to anyone.) But the geese outsmarted us and ran into our neihbkr’s yard.
And then they walked into 79th Street and stood there, blocking the rush hour commuters and a school bus.
Ana and I watched them until they wandered away, she happily snuggled close to me while honking at them and pointing.
The only thing that could possibly be cooler than having Canadian Geese in our yard be wild turkeys. Or maybe wild boars.
