You take the good with the bad

This is Rob, and I am now a blogger.

For all of the things that we love about Iowa, one bad thing has recently popped up.

When we moved into our apartment, we really liked being able to look out over the pond outside our windows. Great sunrise every morning, watch the snow and rain fall on the water; perfect right?

Well, over the past week or so, a small rotating flock of canadian geese have taken up residence in the grassy areas around the pond. Now while I am an outdoors kind of guy, love wildlife and nature, when a group (herd...flock...batallion...) of geese is cackling outside your bedroom window at 6:00am, my thoughts tend to veer another direction. Such as I wonder if the Bass Pro Shops in West Des Moines has a sale on a hunting bow and arrows. Ok, that is a bad idea. Hard to clean up the mess too.

However, after looking at a few websites this morning at 6:01am, it was said that laser pointers and water pistols seem to be very effective. The main thing is to constantly harass them. I can do that. I think we are going to head to the WalMart this morning and get a supersoaker. My afternoon may include sitting in a lawn chair armed with a water cannon. I will keep you posted. But for now, you can see the enemies below.