Animal adorableness for Friday

[ellen_datlow]

If your heart isn't warmed by this you are heartless :-)

Ducklings saved from storm drain

From Jezebel

Comments

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

She should write a book. Those make the kernels of some great anecdotes. I love the idea of the roadrunner tripping!

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't the first time the roadrunner had tripped: he'd been brought in with two broken legs from where he's apparently challenged a car to a game of chicken and lost. Chuck Jones's Coyote would have eaten well with this character.

(Right about the time I first met you, back when I was still wasting time at New Pathways, I was bicycling to work one morning only to encounter a big rooster roadrunner, one of the only ones I've ever seen in the Dallas area, screaming his fool head off at the traffic passing by and lunging at the occasional pickup. They may be brave birds, but they aren't smart birds. I have a lot more respect for wild turkeys: after an encounter with a pair of them at Wakulla Springs State Park just south of Tallahassee, I have nothing but respect for wild turkeys.)

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

As for the book, well, that's if you could convince her to write anything other than her regular LJ posts. (She's over at czarina69 if you're interested.) You see, she knew her second husband long before they got married, and listening to that loser whine and complain about the publishing business put her off the idea of becoming a writer long ago. Besides, he finally quit wasting his time trying to write and got hooked on plants instead, and everyone agrees that he's happier these days anway.