Coffee Before Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

Hey!  How are you doing?  Are you still recuperating from Thanksgving?  Me too!  My house is a disaster right now as I have barely started to decorate for Christmas.  Do you have to pull out all of your decorations and go through them one by one to start the process?  I have tried not to but they are all one by one coming out of the little closet they stay packed in during the year.

 

I thought I would be closer to be finished but nay.  You see we had amazing food Thanksgiving.  However I didn’t look at the labels.  I know better than that because I have a strong reaction to food with monosodium glutamate or msg in it.   It makes me a hateful woman!  The reason I am sharing this is I know a lot of women especially are having issues with pain.  I don’t pretend to know your situation but if I have too much msg laden food I hurt all over my body very bad.  I can’t sleep and I want to cry.  I am blessed that I know what is causing my pain.  Learn to read labels if you want to see if msg is causing you pain.  It hides under many other names.  Our FDA allows this.  It is poison to your body.  Today the msg heavy cloud has lifted and maybe I can get something done around here.

 

I have noticed this post being read a lot in my numbers so I thought I would share it with you today.

 

 

 

 

Good morning!  I thought we could have coffee before eating breakfast this morning.  It's nice to get outside before it gets hot.  We have geese that live on the lake here. We aren't beside it but are right down the lane from it.

According to Wikipedia during the second year of their lives, Canada geese find a mate. They are monogamous, and most couples stay together all of their lives. If one dies, the other may find a new mate. The female lays from 2–9 eggs with an average of five and both parents protect the nest while the eggs incubate, but the female spends more time at the nest than the male.  That's how it goes for most females, spending more time in the nest!

Its nest is usually located in an elevated area near water such as streams, lakes, ponds and sometimes on a beaver lodge. Its eggs are laid in a shallow depression lined with plant material and down.
The incubation period, in which the female incubates while the male remains nearby, lasts for 24–28 days after laying. As the annual summer molt also takes place during the breeding season, the adults lose their flight feathers for 20–40 days, regaining flight at about the same time as their goslings start to fly.

As soon as the goslings hatch they are immediately capable of walking, swimming and finding their own food (a diet similar to the adult geese). Parents are often seen leading their goslings in a line, usually with one adult at the front, and the other at the back. While protecting their goslings, parents often violently chase away nearby creatures, from small blackbirds to lone humans that approach, after warning them by giving off a hissing sound and will then attack with bites and slaps of the wings if the threat does not retreat or has seized a gosling. Most of the species that prey on eggs will also take a gosling. Although parents are hostile to unfamiliar geese, they may form groups of a number of goslings and a few adults, called crèches.

The offspring enter the fledging stage any time from 6 to 9 weeks of age. They do not leave their parents until after the spring migration, when they return to their birthplace.

I love watching them!  They are on the road quite a bit and we have to wait for the Geese crossing.

Jan