On Thursday, we had yet another BBQ. It was fine. But the big news of that day was that I finally caught my goose. I've been plotting a goose capture for several weeks beginning when I found out that geese really love bread. Probably even before that too. Anyway, recently, I've noticed that my eleven little goslings plus one from another group aren't really all that small anymore. For the most part, they have a full set of feathers and are only slightly smaller than ma and pa.
My plan involved three people-myself as the capturer, a photographer, and someone to distract the other geese in particular the parents. My plan was as follows: We would feed the geese bread to get them to come up to us. The distractor would continue to feed bread as I scooped up a gosling and the photographer would snap a picture. Well, Thursday, the plan pretty much unfolded as planned. There are pictures posted. I still wore my backpack in preparation for running. Gerald did a good job distracting the geese though he did get worried because they were getting too close to his pecker and hissing. I was sort of freaking out because these geese were a lot bigger than I had planned but then suddenly I swooped in and was holding one. It didn't try to flap away (maybe because I had its wings pinned to its body) nor kick nor peck. Eventually, it resigned to its fate of looking like it had limberneck (botulism in waterfowl). Check out the pictures. I was super excited and giggled and told everyone about it for the rest of the day.
Wednesday, we went to the slaughter house which was super cool. I do love the slaughterhouse. The area inwhich the cows are killed was very quiet and the cows never knew for the most part what had hit them. My favorite part (the part that I still go on and on about) was in the lobby there was a magazine called The Meating Place! I do love puns.
About One Glove, One Ball-Thursday we were discussing weekend plans of going bowling. Somewhere along the line, we thought it would be funny to do it as a theme night. Truckers and pirates were discussed but evenutally it turned to Michael Jackson (doesn't it all?). Various costumes were discussed, I spent the day doing the Thriller moves and we talked about making glitter gloves (hince the one glove one ball reference). So tonight, we went bowling. There were no costumes, there were no glitter gloves. We did however all choose Micheal Jackson themed names-I was Billy Jean and played several MJ songs. And then danced accordingly. This bowling place-the Bowl-O-Drome-was sort of ghetto. It was much like all other bowling alleys with the exception of 1) not having a food bar and 2) being ran by Indians. I had a really good time dancing and laughing. My mad bowling skills were made fun of (the zombie shuffle). And I did the Thriller dance with my ball and moonwalked. It was good times. Afterwards we went and got some slices of pizza. It was good but I wished I had some more as I write this.
This is a funny cartoon about where I'm going in PA. I suggest scrolling down to the second comment. I am totally finding that sign when I am in Gap. I also plan on going into Landcaster and seeing if I can't find a shirt that says ' I [heart] Intercourse' as was planned on the last trip. I can't remember if I couldn't find one or chickened out on buying it. Either way...
[EDIT-Originally posted to Blogger on 7/5/11]
My plan involved three people-myself as the capturer, a photographer, and someone to distract the other geese in particular the parents. My plan was as follows: We would feed the geese bread to get them to come up to us. The distractor would continue to feed bread as I scooped up a gosling and the photographer would snap a picture. Well, Thursday, the plan pretty much unfolded as planned. There are pictures posted. I still wore my backpack in preparation for running. Gerald did a good job distracting the geese though he did get worried because they were getting too close to his pecker and hissing. I was sort of freaking out because these geese were a lot bigger than I had planned but then suddenly I swooped in and was holding one. It didn't try to flap away (maybe because I had its wings pinned to its body) nor kick nor peck. Eventually, it resigned to its fate of looking like it had limberneck (botulism in waterfowl). Check out the pictures. I was super excited and giggled and told everyone about it for the rest of the day.
Wednesday, we went to the slaughter house which was super cool. I do love the slaughterhouse. The area inwhich the cows are killed was very quiet and the cows never knew for the most part what had hit them. My favorite part (the part that I still go on and on about) was in the lobby there was a magazine called The Meating Place! I do love puns.
About One Glove, One Ball-Thursday we were discussing weekend plans of going bowling. Somewhere along the line, we thought it would be funny to do it as a theme night. Truckers and pirates were discussed but evenutally it turned to Michael Jackson (doesn't it all?). Various costumes were discussed, I spent the day doing the Thriller moves and we talked about making glitter gloves (hince the one glove one ball reference). So tonight, we went bowling. There were no costumes, there were no glitter gloves. We did however all choose Micheal Jackson themed names-I was Billy Jean and played several MJ songs. And then danced accordingly. This bowling place-the Bowl-O-Drome-was sort of ghetto. It was much like all other bowling alleys with the exception of 1) not having a food bar and 2) being ran by Indians. I had a really good time dancing and laughing. My mad bowling skills were made fun of (the zombie shuffle). And I did the Thriller dance with my ball and moonwalked. It was good times. Afterwards we went and got some slices of pizza. It was good but I wished I had some more as I write this.
This is a funny cartoon about where I'm going in PA. I suggest scrolling down to the second comment. I am totally finding that sign when I am in Gap. I also plan on going into Landcaster and seeing if I can't find a shirt that says ' I [heart] Intercourse' as was planned on the last trip. I can't remember if I couldn't find one or chickened out on buying it. Either way...
[EDIT-Originally posted to Blogger on 7/5/11]
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