Today when I was out on a short walk I scared a lot of
geese into flight. Some of them quickly and noisily
waddled to the water. They waddled out a ways from
the shore. They stood on the ice honking. I remembered
when we lived in Lees Summit. One year it got especially
cold. Below zero for weeks. Our kid’s piano teacher called
me the morning of piano lessons and told me not to come.
The geese were frozen to the lake she lived at. She was beside
herself and could not teach piano. I looked at
those geese on the little pond in the neighborhood near us and
thought -make sure you don’t freeze to the lake.
I didn’t know that could happen! I never even thought of it. That’s horrifying.