A Day of Geese

This Saturday the weather was not nose hair freezing cold. Sure it was chilly, but not terrible. I thought it would be fun to go to our local park and feed the winter geese. I’ve been saving bread crusts from peanut butter and jelly sammys; the butt ends from loaves of bread and hot dog buns.

So we bundled all of the kids up and ventured out. Curtis was shocked to see such a massive flock of geese, seagulls and ducks. I wasn’t shocked, but I rarely am anyhow. Next we shared all of the bread fixin’s with our new friends. At one point, an elderly man saddled up to Curtis and began to talk old people style. Apparently we were in the midst of a local celebrity.

You see, he used to be the park warden and probably uses that line to pick up elderly ladies. Curtis seemed impressed and maybe just maybe, started to fall for him. Luckily I was there to save the day and Mr. Park Ranger went along on to his next set of elderly ears.

 

Long story short…The Akerman’s fed geese, ducks and seagulls today and we all had so much fun. We met a handy capable goose that looked like the Elephant Man. His lower beak appeared to be broken. He was still able to eat some bread extra’s and seemed to be handling his birth defect with class and grace, unlike the other rambunctious birds who looked like drunk college kids at a keger. He held his own and probably got the most bread. Good for you, Physical Therapist Patient Goose. Dance like it’s the last dance. Yeah man. Here are a few shots of the fun we had:

Naturally, towards the end of our fun Ty tried to get super close to one of the ducks and proceeded to slide down a tiny hill and was covered in mud and I’d guess poultry waste. Luckily we had lots of bags to put his clothes in for the ride home. Check it out:

He cleaned up and was good to go. It was such a good time. I’m so glad we went. It’s always so nice to spend time with all of the kids and the husband. Getting the kids back into the SUV to go home was the worst part of the day. But I lived to tell about it and you enjoyed it! We’re a great team, you and me!

Love,

Stephanie