It just hit me...

It's been a couple weeks since we last posted...and later we'll fill you in on our little vacation to Ephrata and Sight and Sound...and update you on our baby turtle (just hatched - in our kitchen - about 11 days ago).

But I had to write this morning, because something amazing just happened to me. I was outside pulling some tall grass from our flower beds. The cicadas are singing, the sun shining bright, and the geese are heading my way.

Yes, I could hear the honking of the geese - about 12 of them, and I knew they were getting closer.

I didn't look up...I've seen plenty of geese before...I knew they were coming and it seemed like they would be flying right overhead. And they did.

As all this was happening, I was thinking to myself how wonderful it was that geese don't poop in flight - they take care of that when they're on the ground - I'm one happy guy that geese don't poop in flight - I don't need to worry about a thing...

As these thoughts were about done scrolling through my head like a Star Wars title crawl, it hit me!

Literally...it hit me...and at the same time it hit me that I had been wrong all these years.

Geese can and do poop in flight.

You do need to be wary when the geese fly overhead.

You need to protect yourself.

Beware the geese.

Ellie "Sleep-Eating"

We had a family picnic this evening - dinner and a movie in our family room. I picked out a 30 minute film about monkeys (a VHS tape I took out of the huge bag of VHS tapes that dad was getting rid of a few months ago), and Papa John's delivered our pizza just in time. Ellie was in her high chair and Jen, Caleb, and I were each seated behind a TV tray. The film is older, but very entertaining.

When it was about 20 minutes in we looked over to see how Ellie was doing (as she had been unusually quiet for a while), and this is what we saw (enjoy!) : ~AG