The morals of the story

This is a photo of a robin sitting on my deck railing taken some time in Dec or Nov when we had some snow this year. Contrary to the story below; our robins stay around all winter and do not migrate. Our Island robins seem to grow to a rather huge size, while our deer are much smaller than the regular mainland deer. There must be a moral in there somewhere. :)

THIS BIRD HAS AN INTERESTING STORY: All of his little friends left for southern climes, but he stayed on in my backyard. It started snowing this day, and he was getting cold and so finally started flying south too. He only got a short distance though when his wings started to get ice on them, and he fell to the ground in a barnyard and was quickly covered with snow. He must have wondered why he had waited so long to fly south and resigned himself to a harsh and lonely death when a horse happened along. To add insult to injury, the horse dumped a load on manure on the bird (if you know what I mean). By now this poor bird must have surely been bemoaning what an ignoble death he faced, but the manure was warm, and it was not too long before the warmth started to revive the bird. Apparently happy to be alive, the bird started singing. At this point, a cat came walking by. The cat heard the bird, uncovered it, and ate it. Now all good stories have a moral, and this must be a very good story because it has four morals.
1-Don’t procrastinate or you’ll get snowed under.
2-Every horse’s ass that dumps sh*t on you is not necessarily your enemy.
3-Every cat that takes sh*t off you is not necessarily your friend.
4-If you’re happy, for goodness sake keep your mouth shut.
A Flickr internet friend put this on his Flickr account. I thought it was quite fun and worth repeating. His photo is much better suited to the story.

I have been for both of my labs yesterday and today and can now get on with my life. The mamogram was no where near the horror stories I have heard. The ultrasound went much the same as the first one. Results to the drs... I don't expect any problems.

We saw Maria today and finalized our plans for our trip on the Russian River Cruise and the Baltic countries, finishing with a few days in Amsterdam. This should be fun. I must start to do a bit of research on the places mentioned in the itinerary.