Yesterday afternoon, we were sitting out front. It was peaceful and quiet. The only sounds were those coming from the park across the street – kids giggling as they played, birds happily singing in the trees. No, wait. That’s in my fantasy world. What was really going on in the park was there were teenagers playing basketball and cricket, loudly cursing at each other. Then, near the handball courts by the corner, kids hung out with their cars parked nearby, radios blaring out rap music.
Suddenly another sound broke through! There was wild flapping of wings accompanied by blood chilling, louder than normal coos. Bodies crashed, wings slapped the metal of the air conditioner and we watched as what I assume was a male pigeon tried to have his way with a female pigeon. It seemed she was not too happy about it and responded by trying to rip out her potential mate’s jugular:
Nicky was upset. I’m not quite sure why. It may be because he is opposed to violence. It may be because he, having been neutered, can never do what those pigeons were about to do. In any case, he expressed his anger by barking at the birds.
He was rather annoyed that they ignored his barking & continued their violent mating ritual. If he had been capable of flying, he would have whipped out his Superdog cape and flown to the rescue of the little girl pigeon. And if those pigeons entertain the thought of putting a nice little nest on top of my air conditioner… well they had better think again.
Hmmm…..the birds and the bees do it…
The only sounds around here are the birds and the deer that bark like crazy at night. We do have a whippoorwill or how ever you spell that bird that sings every night for a little while.
My little problem that you asked me about turned out ok for me, I’m not sure about her. She stayed for 5 days and then said she was moving on so she wouldn’t wear out her welcome (what welcome?) My son said he heard later she didn’t have anywhere to go so she slept in her car that night. She was going to try to find someone else to stay with but I have some guilt going on and I am afraid something will happen to her. My husband thinks I should find her and bring her back but she has a boyfriend here who can help her if he wasn’t so afraid of his mother. I also found out that she can go home at any time (if someone will buy her gas) she just doesn’t want to because she doesn’t want to be away from her boyfriend so I am trying to forget about her for right now.
[quote comment="293"]My husband thinks I should find her and bring her back[/quote]
Okay, between that and the whole ‘you should buy the good camera’ thing, our husbands sound very similar in some ways.
My “guest” was here for 3 months. 5 days isn’t too bad and I know you feel guilty but she’s not your responsibility. I can be quite the hard ass as long as it’s not me who has to do the kicking out.