February 20, 2005
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The Miracle of Life.....?
Oh the irony of it all! One of the banes of my life, the pigeons that foul my balcony, have decided to set up permenant housekeeping. I am now going to be the proud godparent of two baby pigeons! Sheila, you must be psychic because you did predict this would happen.
Of course I don't have the heart to destroy the eggs. I am even a bit excited to have them there! Can you believe it? At least I am luckier than Merline, who as I recall once had a Canada Goose set up a nest on her balcony!! They are very territorial and she couldn't step outside at all. She had to call animal control to remove them once the babies were born because of course they couldn't fly and there was no way for them to get to food or water. I guess you could say that mother was a "silly goose"! (ouch!!)
I have taken a picture of the eggs and will try to catch one of the proud mama. All this is quite wonderful because it is helping me procrastinate and avoid finishing my housecleaning!
This is one of those magical, peaceful days were I feel completely serene. I have soft instrumental music playing, incense burning and I am slowly and pleasantly getting things done. I have made remarkable (well, I think it's remarkable) progress in organizing my boxes from the house and I can actually get into my computer room now! The last little bit of work is always the hardest for me, and that is where I am now, merrily procrastinating away from cleaning the bedroom! I think a cup of coffee before starting up again is definately in order.
Comments (5)
Oh misslill, how wonderful! I will see my dad tomorrow and ask him if there's anything you can do to help out your new family without intruding. Glad to hear you're finding some inner calm; God knows we all could use some!
Aww, thats sweet! When I lived on the Lake in MN, I adopted 2 canadian geese and named them Daley and Delilah. Then, a few weeks later this Snow Goose started appearing, so I adopted her too and named her Gina. Then, when we moved back to NC, this big storm came through a knocked a robins nest out of a tree. Two of the babies died, but I managed to feed the last one worms with tweezers for 4 weeks before it finally flew off.
I'm a sucker for animals ... and I admit it.
- Mindah
Congratulations on being a proud new godparent! I'll definitely have to bring that holy water now lol!
The Filipino say that when a bird has a baby on your territory, it means good luck.
Well, that's good news! I'm a little worried about them after the snow last night. I'll take a peek tomorrow and see what's happening.
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