Some goofy mother Grebe has hatched an egg at exactly the wrong time of year. Just the other day a baby grebe came swimming by the boat. I was so astonished to see an immature bird this time of year that I almost didn’t get the camera out in time. It’s rained every day since the first of September and it is getting colder. Winter is icumen in! Hope that baby gets its feathers soon.
We are moored at the confluence of two canals, the Kraspolder Kanaal and the Noordhollandsch Kanaal (really nails it down for you, doesn’t it?). Not only do we get swans and baby grebes swimming by, we are occasionally entertained by an outrigger and a big drum canoe. You can hear the drummer beating time for the paddlers while they are still a long way off. Gives us something to look forward to while we’re sitting here.
Kind of off the subject of boating but relevant to our crew and Holland……….
The leader of Iran, Mr. Ahmadinejad, said that Muslims don’t hate the U.S. I am so glad because we have a member of our crew, namely one native born AmericanYogi-dog, who absolutely loves Muslims despite their feelings for him.
Whenever he is off leash and spies a lady in a head scarf or a man wearing a prayer cap, he runs to them. “Hi, hi, hi,” he seems to say, “I really like you, wanna’ pet me?”
Naturally, if they are “good” Muslims, they turn away from our friendly little dog because so many Muslim clerics teach that owning a dog negates any positive points you may need to get into paradise when you die. Hummm, paradise without dogs? Impossible!
We Americans have an old saying: love me, love my dog. I’ll modify that into don’t hate me, don’t hate my dog.
Anybody listening?
Notice Yogi-dog? He's the small black dot on the left.
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