I have become somewhat passionate about this birding business. My wife, the Beautiful AP, and I planned on a birding weekend. We planned that just the two of us were going to go to Camman’s Pond Park in Merrick on Saturday morning so AP could take some pictures of White-Hooded Mergansers which are supposed to be plentiful there.
Two days prior we had had a 12-inch snow storm and the park, we presumed, was loaded with snow. But we were going anyway except…
The Beautiful AP got a call from Scuba Steve who owns the pool where we swim and where she teaches swimming, asking her if she could teach classes that day since one of the other swim teachers was out sick. She said yes, leaving me and the White-Hooded Mergansers for another time.
AP has a saying, “No day goes as planned.” Well obviously going to teach swimming disrupted our original plan but even the swim-teaching plan went off the rails. Some tiny tot had diarrhea in the pool and everyone had to leap out.
She came home early. “A kid pooped in the pool,” she said.
“Crap,” I said.
Sunday our South Shore Audubon Society bird walk was to be at the Massapequa Preserve. Joe, our bird-walk leader, went on Saturday to check out the conditions. It was snowy and wet and, yes, icy – and Joe slipped and fell. Plus rain and sleet were predicted. So that walk was cancelled.
No day goes as planned. Often that is because Mother Nature has something else in mind—and this weekend, she clearly flipped me the bird.
No one flips the bird better than Mother Nature!! Better luck next time!
She dictates, just like a real mother. Of course, my wife also dictates.