I be bloggin', they workin'.

Thanks again for Phil's birthday wishes. He enjoyed them, and so did we. I think he enjoyed them with more alcohol than we did; just a guess.

For your pleasure:

It's a duck on a fence

I laughed myself incontinent over this.  I mean, when do you see a duck on a fence?  Plus, it was just after dawn, so quack-a-doodle-doo!

No one noticed the incontinence because of the lake.  Water, water everywhere.

We've been talking about our sitting situation for a long time.

No need to be so dramatic.  Get up, let's talk about it again.

I sat so long one day I crippled myself.  This couch is fourteen years old (108 in our years), and you don't get comfortable sitting on Great-Great-Great-Aunt Esther.  

Slow-forward a few days.  The couch is gone and we're sitting on camp chairs.  Better!  We need a semi-permanent solution, and we're willing to think outside the Broyhill.  Give us ideas, please.

We've considered:

• a reclining loveseat - we have one in mind
• comfy office chairs with storage footrests (first used in the Footrest Empire) - we have one in mind
• lawn chaises - we have one in mind
• YOUR IDEA HERE - you have one in mind

Annie is already dressed and ready to do Stuff.  I have more sitting to do.

Photography most fowl

Read this: How to Walk Across a Parking Lot.  If you're too busy to read it, read it twice.

You're gonna walk away, see?  And you're gonna forget you was here, see?  You never saw me, see?

This stuff felt true today:  Ten Scams You Encounter Every Day.  You'll be a better person for having read it, or else you'll be mad that I wasted your time.  If you feel like it wasted your time, read it twice.

Heron Now

Pekin-ese

Egrets, I've had a few ...

ACK!  A whole flock!  

Duckpile

No birds were harmed in the filming of this post, but some children may have been badly photographed.

You laid what where?

How is it possible that I didn't see this comment?  This egg was laid here.  Please sing quietly into your earbuds so you don't wake Snarky Duck.

Steve said:

I was inspired and did this for the day the duck arrives in the old west.

It's all the same only feathers will change
Everyday it seems we're moulting away
Another place where the bills are so cold
I'd fly all night just to get back to home

I'm a mallard on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted duck or alive
Wanted duck or alive

Sometimes I sleep sometimes it's not for days
The people I meet always go their separate ways
Sometimes you tell the day by the bottle that you drink
The times you try to float all you do is sink

I'm a mallard on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted (wanted) duck or alive
Wanted (wanted) duck or alive

Oh and I fly!

I'm a mallard on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted (wanted) Duck or alive

And I waddle these streets a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps 'cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere still I'm standing tall
I've seen a million bills and I've quacked them all

'Cause I'm a mallard on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted (wanted) Duck or alive
'Cause I'm a mallard I got the night on my side
I'm wanted (wanted) Duck or alive
And I ride (and I ride) Duck or alive
I still fly (still fly) Duck or alive
Duck or alive
Duck or alive
Duck or alive
Duck or alive