When I left for the eye doctor this morning, the girls from next door had come over for breakfast. They think we have the best ticks in town--or, I guess, out of town.
I was pleased to see that they had brought a couple of chicks with them. I'm sorry it's so blurry, but if I had gotten close enough to get a clear picture, they would have flapped away squawking at the tops of their voices and, believe me, that is very loud.
Everyone should get the chance to spend some time watching guinea hens. They are hysterical, and hysteria is their defining mood. They are like a bunch of gabbling old biddies, and the slightest disturbance sending them waddling behind the nearest bush or tree, and screeching like they're being chased by demons. If one gets separated from the rest, she gets hysterical and runs back and forth crying, and looking for the rest. She's in agony trying to choose between the horror that she's trying to escape (me!), and the misery of being alone.
I got to the eye doctor's office early and there was no one in the parking lot except for me and these guys. No undignified running around for them. They gave way to the car, but only as far as they absolutely had to, and there wasn't so much as a ruffled feather among them. They look very disciplined, don't they? They kind of remind me of Nazis.
So, I had an entertaining morning, which was good since it made up for the fact that my appointment is next week.
AMDG
"They kind of remind me of Nazis."
ReplyDeleteHence the term....
you went a week early by mistake? I do that kind of thing all the time Grumphy
ReplyDeleteI had this uneasy feeling when they hadn't called to remind me that I had an appointment. I had a dream the night before that I was eating breakfast at my mother's and talking with her, and I realized that I was already 10 minutes late for the appointment, and then I couldn't find any of the hundred cards they have given me with the telephone number on it and the word "southern" as in "Southern Eye Associates" was not in the phone book.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's ironic.
AMDG
Maclin, You would think that I would have thought.
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I did the same thing with a dentist's appointment some months ago. Same deal with wondering why they hadn't made the usual reminder call, but going anyway...
ReplyDeleteI once went for a meeting with a lawyer, and I was one month early!
ReplyDeleteJanet, the birds in the second picture are (what we call) Canada geese. Do you call them guinea fowl?
No, the ones on top are guinea hens or fowl, I figured everybody would know the ones on the bottom were geese. We call them Canadian geese, although they spend a lot of time with us.
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Ah, I see. I'm glad of that. It would have been sad to learn that our "national bird" (not officially, but nominatively) was known by another name outside our borders.
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