I am inordinately proud of the fact that even though it snowed the other day and it has been ass-cold all week, I have not yet turned on the furnace! We have used the fireplace exclusively so far. I know I’m going to have to break down eventually, but when propane is $3 a gallon and I have a 500 gallon tank I can put on some sweaters and bust out the electric blankets. Besides I’m holding out hope that this cold snap is a freak of nature and we will be back to our regularly scheduled Fall soon.
The sudden and early-onset winter did provide some humor in my day (aside from all the new swear words I made up because the one’s I knew were not enough after I saw the snow). I knew those damn ducks would be good for something! They went waddling out of their house the morning of the deep freeze and jumped on the pond. I say ON the pond and not IN the pond because it was frozen on top. They were so confused! I stood in the kitchen looking out the window, drinking my hot chocolate and laughing my ass off as the dumbass ducks jumped up and down on the ice trying to figure out how all the water got so stiff. They were quacking their fool heads off about it and flapping around, trying to bust through for a little splashy splash. You could see the conversation they were having:
“ACK”
“WHAT THE HELL?”
“Did you see that?”
“I know!”
stomp..stomp…stomp “What IS that?”
“Jump up and down. Flap your wings. I want to get in the waaaaaaterrrrrrrrr!” stomp…stomp…stomp
The turkeys just stood by watching like “you really are the dumbest birds that never flew.”
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