However, I'm not going to miss the goose poop that's all over the bike paths. Plus, those are some cheeky birds and they do not get out of the way for a charging bicycle let alone a lone runner, so in that way they're kind of pesky birds.
However, the Canada goose is a fond image for me, probably from seeing so many of those Benjamin Chee Chee prints in dentists' offices and such. I think this one is one of the most well-known- does anyone know of these outside of Ontario? I gather they're pretty famous.
On an unrelated note, I just found out that I've been calling Canada Geese "ouaouaron" which in fact is the word for a type of bullfrog. Losing...grip...on reality... heheh. The funny part is I have most definitely propogated this falsehood to at least one other person and now they're dispatched into the world with a wrong idea, *gasp*. It shouldn't come as a huge surprise if you are acquainted with my family and our tendency to get words wrong in both official languages, but I clung to this for so long, sniff. ;)
As I was contemplating geese for no reason in particular, I was reminded of the song by Arlo Guthrie that my dad had on a record called "Me and My Goose." I can remember sitting scooched right up to those big old speakers in the living room, soaking in the song. I won't say it's why I'm a vegetarian ;) but it was such a sad/funny song and I don't think my dad has that record anymore. I youtubed it the other day and it wasn't quite the same (isn't that always how it happens with childhood memories?) but still good. Poor Al, and poor kid that was his friend, heheh. Along that vein, there was also that book that was also a song that we read in grade two about foxes stealing the chickens and bringing them back to their den, for some reason I was so traumatized about that. Did anyone else ever read that in school?
So ends my rant/ramble about all things (well, some things) geese.
Have a great day! :)
3 comments:
hahahaha ...."scooched"...i loved this post. i can hear those geese honking away. and i too must say, i don't miss all the poop... and the hissing. there's a few of these geese at the beacon hill park... downtown..goodness they're bold birds!.. also. winter isn't so bad. it's cozy, and full of wool... ;) but if you don't like the snow that much.. come on out to victoria for a visit! (though we get snow here too...)
where are the details about a certain facebook post ..? ;)
hm I'll have to look up that song :)
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