Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Sing a song of sixpence, a rotten goose egg...

Athena the goose has REALLY wasted her time. For 5 weeks she has sat on a nest with at least seven eggs in it.
Athena started out with 9 eggs. Then a few days ago, 2 eggs were missing. Where those eggs are (or were) will remain a mystery for ever and ever.
The night before last night was a smelly night. By 'smelly' I mean that Athena/Weener had a rotten goose egg under her.
That egg was so gross. Athena had a little rotten egg on her foot and she had some on her underpants, too. The inside of the looked like muddy dark green gunk. The worse thing, of course, was how the egg smelled. It smelled like a combination of rotten vegetables, food in a goose's craw, and vomit. NOT a pleasant combination.
I discovered the rotten egg. After I had gotten Jason, we set about moving Athena off her nest. Athena was either literally scared stiff or momentarily parylized by the fumes of rotten egg. Anyway, when we lifted Athena off the nest, she stayed in the same position she was on the nest.
Jay and I have decided that all off the eggs of Athena are probably rotten. It's too late to decide otherwise, since all the eggs are in the compost.
Here is some Athena-info:
Athena is a brown chinese goose. She has an oink-like honk and has a very thin neck. Speaking of thin, Athena is very thin. Geese don't eat much food when they are on nests, so Athena weighs less than a DUCK right now. A goose weighing less than a duck is a extremely bad omen (for the goose) because that goose is unfortunately on the top of the 'Unfortunately, I'm Starving' list.
Athena has a long list of nicknmames. These are them:
Weener
Hot Dog
Weeney
Theaney
Thena
Frankfurter
Just for fun, here are some of the nicknames of a few other birds:
Miss Miah- Air Pump
Mister Loose- Luceale
Mister King- Kih-Nu-Gee
Mister Queen- Queenette, Beanie, Ku-Wu-E-Wu-Un
Miss Comet- Gromet
Mister Winston Goose- Minstern Goobohnt
Mister Snowflake- Toe-Flake

PLEASE NOTE- ALL THE 'MISS' AND 'MISTERS' IN THIS LAST LIST ARE NOT IN THE GOOSE'S ACTUAL NAME EXEPT FOR MISTER WINSTON GOOSE. ALL THE 'MISS' AND 'MISTERS' EXEPT FOR WINSTON'S ARE PROVIDED SO YOU CAN EASILY KNOW WHAT SEX EACH BIRD IS.
At any rate, Athena is off her rotten nest. She is so skinny that she is literally skin and bones.

One last thing: The two sentences before this one aren't supposed to be in italics or in bold. My computer is simply acting up.



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