I woke up this morning at the usual time 6am and then dived under the covers, covering my ears.  I pretended that I was snoozing.  Gnome was tossing and turning and huffing and puffing because he knew what was about to come:  the usual 6am DIN.  The goosies go off like nothing on earth…shrieking and honking like there is no tomorrow right at our doorstep:  HONK –WAKEUP–HONK!!!!  RISE AND SHINE MUNCHKIN AND GNOME–HONK HONK!!!.  This has been our wake up call for the last two weeks and it has been gradually driving us potty!  Gnome shouted into my little cave under the blankets,

“…can you sleep through that??”

No I couldn’t but I was insisting on not getting up!!  Right now we are having early morning rains which is the perfect reason for sleeping in…but the geese are making it impossible.  Anyway,  as we got up, the noise rose to a fever pitch and when I opened the front door to peak through a crack, they cackled and shrieked with gusto… and when I finally opened the door wide, they suddenly stopped like nothing had happened.  They were shuffling about on the yard minding their own business.

I swear, they are doing this on purpose!!  The goosies are out to get us with their evil goosie taunts…

Anyway, last night we decided that we can’t stand the noisy geese during breeding season which happens to be 6 months of the year!  An executive decision has been made to: “fence them out.”  We are going to have a fence around our house to protect us from the noise pollution .  We can’t however do it this year because any changes bang in the middle of breeding season will probably incite a riot and we might be over-thrown in the power struggle.

The original plan was to “Fence Goosies In” to protect them from critters and possums.  The new plan is to “Fence Goosies out” to protect us from them…

“Fence Goosies Out.” is going to be job#586: we will get to it hopefully by the end of the year.  Meanwhile, we have to get up at 6am every morning, rain or shine…

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