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#138406 01/30/05 11:45 PM
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Ice storm last night. Roof to front porch frozen.

Birds this morning tried to get at the seed I've been tossing about on the roof, and it was great fun watching the little snowbirds peck and slide down the roof. I'd never observed birds on slanted ice before although I had experienced the same pull of gravity in my car on a hillside in Petersburg a couple of weeks ago. But birds? A bird would peck at a seed in a great burst of energy, said seed being ensconced in ice, and in that burst of energy, the bird would begin to slide downward, flapping its wings and going back up to seed level. Since church had been cancelled, I spent nearly an hour watching the determined snowbirds slide down the porch roof, admittedly only a few inches of a slide, but their good luck in finding seed kept them at it for a long while. Their nails did little to act like pitons to brace them on the roof.


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A couple of winters ago I watched a dozen or so ducks come in to land on our local pond. The pond was frozen, something the ducks hadn’t realised, and they were a hilarious sight as their legs went from under them and each bundle of feathers and beak went sliding willy-nilly (a little cross-threading here) into a big muddled heap of bewildered birds at the far end of the pond.


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Duckimus pluckimus
Simon and Garfunkel’s
Webbed feet land fearlessly:
Ice is no play!

How will they brake in time ~
Experimentally
Bridged over water or
Slip-slide away?


did I done good, ASp? I never tried a duckbill before :)


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you quack me up, mav!



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> poor recall

harrrrrumph! my poetic licence clearly states I'm allowed to bend reality to fit the rhyme :)

the nearer your destination...


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you'll note that I discovered that it was *my memory that's slip-sliding away. it was simply Simon who penned the song, but it was performed by both (true of most of their opus). you, of course, replied before I could totally remove the vestiges of my shame.


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I am bowed and humbled, Mav. That is inspired. You have learned the steenkin' rules well, duckhopper.


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Terrific, Mav'. Now what's the melody?


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> Now what's the melody?

I'll have to leave that to one of our Count to Tenors!!


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"Streets of Laredo" works metrically, but I bet we can think up something better...


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>Streets of Laredo

one of my all-time favorite songs. not much better than that.



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