Friday, March 28, 2008

confessions

some of you may remember the frog debacle of 2007 - the lone frog who would sit on our porch and croak his little heart out night after night...after night. and how it made curtis crazy. crazy enough to go grab the frog and chuck it into the woods! (i did not know at the time this was what he was doing - i clearly would have stopped him!) where many frogs croaking can become white noise, one very loud frog all by his lonesome is very disruptive to sleep!

well, welcome to the bird debacle of 2008! of course, it's only been one night so far, but last night as we were about to drift off to sleep, around 11:15pm, a cheerful song bird began his morning salutations. 6 or 7 hours early. incessantly. this poor deranged/confused bird sang it's heart out, all by itself in the dark. we began to wonder what had caused it: was it a pet, escaped & confused? or perhaps a little bird run away from a children's book, marching to the beat of it's own drummer? curtis suggested that perhaps it was wandering the forest, asking everything, "are you my mother?" but i must confess, after my indignation at curtis' treatment of the frog last summer, that my last conscious thought last night was that i hoped an owl would hear the bird and swoop down to eat it so i could go to sleep. i'm not proud, i'm just saying...

3 comments:

Sarah said...

You shouldnt be ashamed of your love of owls and your deep seated hope that none would go hungry last night. Im sure it had nothing to do with the specific prey....

jdhall said...

Mamie and I just returned from vacation in the mountains. That cabin by the river sure looked peaceful... until the two resident Canadian geese started honking every morning... at 2am.

So as a Canadian... is this normal for your geese or were they simply off a few time zones?

*marissa* said...

gotta love god's creation!!!!!