Quote for the Day 7/20/2009

Grant: How did I do that? (After he put down a saucepan lid that spun around and bounced for a very long time. He tries to duplicate the effect several times.)

Hiromi: I guess you're just like Mom--easily amazed.

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Earlier this evening:

Hiromi: There's a huge cloud in the south.

He almost sounded amazed--for good reason. That cloud was a classic anvil shape, puffing up visibly every minute.

It moved on to the east, and the rain that apparently fell elsewhere missed us entirely.

We're pinning our hopes now on showers that are to move across this area from the Northwest. We're in a tornado watch (along with about 47 other counties in Kansas) till 2:00 A.M., and the chance of hail and high winds is significant.

Bummer. I'd really like drama-free precipitation. Please?

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Me: I guess that makes two guineas that committed suicide today.

One drowned in the ducks' swimming pool, placed there by Hiromi, who also treats both guineas and ducks periodically to "an Amazon shower."

The other apparently escaped its safe shelter through a hole big enough to squeeze through high up on the cattle panel door across the greenhouse opening, and Max couldn't resist picking it up. He proudly showed Grant the lifeless bird when he got home, and got a royal scolding and several swats for his pains. He was quite penitent for a long time. He had not torn or eaten the guinea--just carried it around, a little too roughly, by all appearances.

The other morning he had a blackbird in his mouth several times, but it was still alive and fairly chipper when we got him distracted enough to leave it alone. His bird acquisitions are definitely not about satisfying hunger--except for excitement. That hunger, with him, is insatiable.