Goose Gangland

We are dieting again, and as part of that we are going to McKinley Park after Cam picks me up from work and we're walking briskly, briskly, briskly around the park two or three times. One thing about walking briskly, it prevents the hounds from pulling. Amazing the dogs walk without pulling if you are walking so quickly that you are almost running. One problem solved. Anyway, McKinley park is where many of the good people of Sacramento go to walk around or bring their children to play. It's a lovely park with a fake lake and fountain element that attracts birds. Geese in fact. Violent aggressive geese. Packs and Gaggles of violent, aggressive geese. People bring their toddlers to the park to play and they get pecked by geese, must be some sort of right of passage here. However it's better than when Cam and I were having a fight and so we arranged to have a vacation via email and couldn't decide where to go and ended up going to the South -- to Alligator Island where all the people vacationing on the island were white breeders. It's weird to go someplace where there are only white people. I'm wrong, some of the "help" were black. They breed a lot down there. Which is why I guess you can vacation on a swampy island teeming with man-eating alligators. It doesn't matter if little Jimmy gets used as an alligator snack when you've got 8 other kids. In fact, leaving a few in the swamp would just decrease your cost of living.

So a few geese pecks don't seem so bad, but I always walk a little MORE briskly when we pass the gang of geese.