Bonus post!

It's the first day of spring!!!!!!!!!!! And just for that, I'm giving you another post besides the one from earlier this morning that I wrote last night. I've had new sightings!

I saw my first robin last evening, but it disappeared before I could even get the camera. This morning I saw another one, and it cooperated much better. Here's my very first robin photo of the year, taken from over 50 feet away:

As I was outside with the camera, I could hear many, many geese honking, but they didn't sound like they were flying. A quick look told me that they were on some standing water in the neighbor's field. This is what I could see from our driveway:

Zooming in as far as I could gave me this next shot. Look how thick they are!

And then I cropped another photo for a slightly better look:

Spring is here, folks... for real! Even if it snows again (and it surely could)... as they say, it can't last long. Today's forecast high temperature of sunny mid-50's should get rid of a lot of that dirty old snow, too. Hurray!

Happy Spring!!!

(And now I'll quit playing and get to work, Kris! Actually, that "work" is kinda like playing to me, too. ;) )

'Nuther surprise

The day Courtney's daddy came over on his coffee break to see our little surprises (or whatever it was he really came over for... heifers, I think), he and Grandpa brought along a surprise of their own!

On their way over, they'd seen a goose in the ditch. It was obviously wounded (by a hunter, as it's now goose season here), so they put it out of its misery and stuck it in the back of the pickup. They got it out to show to Courtney and me.

It's a Canada goose. It had quite a wing span:

They tried to get Courtney to touch it and see how soft the feathers were, but she wouldn't do it. So they plucked one for her, and she was okay with that. She was quite impressed with it, in fact.

I was asked if I wanted to clean and cook it. I nixxed the cleaning idea right quickly! I suppose it would cook up pretty good in the crockpot. I never did hear if somebody else cleaned it or not.