Alice
life … Alice the
friendly goose
Alice winds
up on my bed every night. She is quite the down comforter. By morning there’s down
aplenty on the bed spread and some pretty big feathers too, along with two webbed
feet, two wings and a bright orange beak. Why, look, it’s a real live goose, awaking
after another night of fowl dreams. The snowy white Alice sleeps at the foot of
my bed every night in my log home by the Weber River.
A goose
around the house is a comforter of sorts even if it’s not one of the blanket varieties. They make wonderful pets, they’re very
calming, a goose as a house pet? Who would have thought it, until the day a
clutch of nine eggs laid in a vacated nest by the river. Time for a house goose
Precious decided. Right then and there, she snatched up the cutest of the
fluffy goslings running around and brought her inside.
That
was six years ago, and now Alice is a part of the family. At least that’s how
it seems, as the 2 foot-tall goose struts around the house like she owns the
place, nibbling at her food in a big dog dish on the kitchen floor or gazing out
the patio door at the family’s other geese ducks and turkeys, banished to a
life in the back yard.
Miss
Alice isn’t content to be just a home birdy, she’s also quite the gadabout.
Maybe you’ve met her at the Roy Farmers Market or at a school, home improvement
center or craft store. We have pictures of her at old Faithful. She was
watching and thinking, “Can I go swimming now?” For some reason she seems to
like the color blue. When she meets children wearing blue She always wants to
nibble on their shirts.
Although Alice
is very clean, we don’t take Alice places that other house pets can’t go, like
grocery stores or restaurants. Every errand with Alice in tow takes two or
three times longer because everybody wants to pet her, and double takes are the
rule of the day when Alice goes out of town.
To be continued…
DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
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