Thank you SO much for all your comments about the YoYo quilt. I have the sweetest readers! I would suggest a yoyo-along, but that would take too long LOL.
I thought I’d catch you up on the story of Mother Goose. If you follow my instagram account, you know that we’ve had a fun few days. The internet was SO helpful to let us know what to expect with Mother Goose. It said that the eggs will hatch anywhere from 24 – 30 days, so on day 24 (last Thursday) we kept an extra close watch over Mother Goose. We even checked on her on the weekend. And, right on schedule, Day 28 (this past Monday) we saw some action. When we arrived at work, this was the scene at the nest.
What the heck! Mother Goose kicked out two of the eggs. She really confused us and we were guessing that maybe she could sense dud eggs or something? Then, around 9:30 or so, our admin came running over to tell us that we had a baby. We all flocked (ha — definitely obsessed) to the window and look looky — a baby indeed!
Awwww, isn’t he cute? By 1 p.m. or so, there were three babies. It was hard to tell what was going on as we didn’t happen to catch Mother Goose standing up very often. (I know it’s hard to believe, but we didn’t stand at the window ALL day long!) So, by the time we left work Monday, we thought maybe there were four little ones. (And let me add here, Mother Goose and her babies picked the PERFECT days to hatch out — these past few days have been our prettiest spring days this year.) After the first baby or two, Father Goose appeared on the scene. (Finally!) Every time someone would walk down the handicap ramp, he would hiss at them. Finally, security put some orange cones up to keep people off of the ramp.
On Tuesday morning, Mother Goose was still on the nest but she stood up for just a minute as I was coming in to work, and I thought I counted 5 goslings. We compared notes and someone thought they saw 6. Very fun. The internet said that the geese would leave the nest within 24 hours, so we waited. My desk is on the second floor and I have a friend who sits just below me on the first floor (people who sit on the first floor had a birds-eye view of the action), so she was on high-alert for a goose family exodus. Around 10 a.m, she texted and said “They’re here!”. (She sits around the corner from the nest.) So, us second floor girls zipped to the window, but we couldn’t see all the geese. Father Goose decided to head across the parking lot with four of the babies and Mother Goose was up under our windows where we couldn’t see her. (Sorry for the awful cell phone photo, but I want to remember what those little guys looked like trying to hop up on the curb. They all made it — so cute!)
My first floor friend texted to say that Mother Goose was headed back to the nesting area. ??? We were worried about some sort of custody battle, but after Father Goose got all the way across the parking lot, he decided to turn around and come back. Yay! They went back to the nesting area, and we went downstairs for about 10 minutes to get a better view. You know, break time and all LOL. Here they are, very close to the original nest. Sadly, this is the only picture I got of all seven of the little goslings together. And it’s through a very dirty window (which is part of the reason that all of these pictures aren’t the greatest — our windows are filthy!). If you look real closely, you can count seven — there’s one behind that tallest little peeper and one to the left of Mother Goose.
After our little break, we all went back to work. And by lunchtime, when we went to check on them, they were gone. Poof! No trace of a little goose family of nine anywhere. They apparently had a very stealthy walk across the parking lot. We didn’t even get to say goodbye! I did catch this little cutie below spreading his wings. They were so sweet stumbling around in the grass. It’s amazing that they can walk long distances and follow their parents.
So, that’s the story of our little goose family. We’ll never really know if we see them again. There’s another family of 8 in our industrial park, and a few more geese still on their nests, so it would be impossible to identify “our” geese. I wish we could have put a spot on Mama’s head or something! ;-D Here’s the scene on Tuesday afternoon. Hard to believe those shells stayed intact as much as they did with that big Mother sitting on them.
Now, it’s a little depressing at work. We’re all suffering Empty Nest Syndrome. ;-(
XOXO,
Anna
Ohhhh, such a sweet story! Thanks for sharing!
Ooohh, they’re so cute! :)))
So much fun to watch along with you – thank you so much for sharing with us.
They look so fuzzy and cute. I could just squeeze one – just a little, itty-bitty squeeze.
Awe, I’m so glad they made it okay. They are soooooo cute!
Makes me smile! :-)
What a GREAT way to start my day! Thanks so much for posting about your geese (goose?) family. Just wonderful – made my heart smile!!
Awww, I’m so glad they all hatched out. Hopefully they’ve found a nice body of water and are floating along happily. Thank you for that eyewitness account! It’s exciting, isn’t it?
Oh how cute! And what luck that it all happened during office hours! My gosh, goslings leave their nest after 24 hours, amazing!!!
Awww…they’re so cute tagging along behind Mama! Thanks for sharing the story and pics.
Great pictures. What a nice family. I’m so glad the whole family is together and well. I wish they could stay, but at least you/we got to watch a little bit.
Have a wonderful week.
“Empty Nest Syndrome” ! you are so clever!
Hope the little family is happy and well!
Thanks for keeping us in the baby watch loop. Fun story.
This is waaaay tooo adorable. Thanks for sharing your wonderful post.
What lovely little goslings!! And what fun to see something this exciting from the office!
I love the fact you are all suffering “empty nest syndrome” now!
Oh! So Cute! There was a picture in our local paper the other day of some sand hill cranes with two new fluffy babies with endless legs! And I have been majorly frustrated because I cannot put photos of my daughter’s new born(also endless legs!)filly that she sent through her phone onto my blog! Sympathies on your empty nest!!
Oh, I’m so glad the big event happened on a week day. I bet you’d all have been so disappointed if it had happened on a weekend! Thanks for sharing the story, Anna. I enjoyed living it through you! :o)
That is awesome that you got to see all the action! When you first posted about them I was really hoping you would get to see it all and report back to us. Those babies are SO sweet! And your empty nest remark really cracked me up! LOL
I love the yo-yo quilt too, it is absolutely gorgeous! :)
Well done little geese. I was just wondering about them this morning. Nearly as epic as your yoyos!
Empty-nest syndrome….you crack me up! (get it?) What a fun picture story.
so exciting………….thanks for the pics…….
The babies are so cute… we have a few around our park downtown as well. I love how they toggle behind mama goose. Things are a bit crazy here with the new job etc. and Tencents is sick again… don’t know how that will turn out.
That is so funny. Empty nest syndrome!!!! Such cute little goslings.
OMG I’m “almost” crying reading your story… with my hormones and all!! So cute, mother nature is amazing :)
Congratulations!
I’m so glad you were there to see a lot of the process and that you could share it with us.
What a hoot and what fun.
They are so fluffy and adorable.
What a great way to start my day today
ah the babies x
Ack! What a great story. Thank you for sharing and I loved all the PUN-ishment. Empty nest indeed.
It’s so fun that you got to see all that. I wish I could witness that sometime. :-)
A yo-yo along. Haha! I’d be 80 by the time I got that done!
the lovely reporter thank you for the lovely story… waiting for more story to come up.
Wow, how cool and thank you for sharing. Clarice
Oh the thrill of delivery. It is unmatched. I love exciting things at work. Now it is back to work as normal. That is sad. But this is really a once in a life time thing.
I’m a bird lover….I really enjoyed the posts about the geese. I also just absolutely LOVE the yo-yo quilt. I’m still trying just to get a pillow done with the few I’ve got around here. You’re a marvel, Anna.
I love the little chap spreading his wings! (Possibly it’s just as well you’re not able to identify them all the way… just in case one or two wee ones come to a sticky end…
I’m glad there was a happy ending to your nesting story. They all look so sweet.
How wonderful! Don’t you just love Mother Nature? Thank you for sharing this sweet story.
O so AWESOME!!!!!! I could hug every single one of you for watching out for this family..theirs a lot of jerks in this world that would have loved to destroy this beautiful scene ..very thankful :)
Mandy
I remember when we had a family of doves living on our side porch. It was such a pleasure to discreetly watch them from the window and see the parents taking turns feeding and sitting with them:)
Maude
Awwww!!! Thanks for sharing. 7 babies. How cute!
Lol empty nest syndrome… You crack me up… Get it? Cracking joke!
Great to hear what happened with those geese it was more riviting than Days of our Lives!
Oh YAY! I have been meaning to come back and see how your little nest was doing. I’m glad the little family did well, even if you have an empty nest :(