Crazy Psycho Duck!!!

Here’s one: me & Jenny were walking around the river this morning (at 5 AM-Gosh!!!) and as soon as we got on the greenbelt this white duck started following us and was squawking up a storm!!! We’re thinking this stupid duck is totally gonna try and peck at us (wait do ducks peck!?!) or try and eat us or something and frankly I just don’t have the time or desire to deal with that at 5 in the morning!! We keep walking and that stupid duck just kept following us and squawking like nobody’s business! Jenny’s starts panicking a little and starts to run and of course the duck starts running faster after her! I tell her to simmer down or he’s really gonna try & get us so she stops running but we’re both walking pretty fast. And since she’s Jenny and only she would think of this she decides the duck is trying to tell us something and we should listen to it!! Girl it’s not Lassie for crap’s sake!!!! After another couple minutes of this we both start panicking and take off running and sure enough that damn duck tore right after us and chased us ½ way around the river!! He would not leave us alone!! Thankfully when we got to the little stretch of the greenbelt that’s on Broadway I think he got distracted either by all the cars zooming by or the other people that were walking the river cuz he slowed down and eventually gave up his chase!!! Good freakin grief!!!!

The Dirt Bike

I know it's been awhile since I posted a story but this one is worth the wait! The only thing that could make it better would be if I had a picture to go with it!! so check it: We went out to the parents for Father’s Day festivities yesterday and my brother Matthew borrowed his buddy’s dirt bike & brought it over. So everyone was taking a turn riding on it. I’ve never ridden a dirt bike before and have been wanting to try it out. Of course I’m too scared right!? I finally work up some gumption and decide that I am going to do it!! But 1st Jenny decides she wants to just see if she can get the thing started but she doesn’t want to ride on it. So we’re all kinda gathered around watching to see if she’s smarter than the dirt bike! Clearly that was a mistake!! She manages to get the thing started and then doesn’t really know what to do with it so in true Jenny fashion she just lets go of it and it’s heading RIGHT for me! I had no where to go-I was trapped between the outside set of stairs and the picnic table so that bike totally hit me!!!! Knocked me down on the stairs and ran over me!! I am so sure!!! I’m all banged up now!!! So of course now I’m too scared to try riding it myself!! After a few minutes of the children trying to give me a pep talk I decide to give it a try! I managed to get it started on the 1st try but couldn’t quite get the hang of keeping the gas going so it took me a few more starts before I was ready to go. My biggest fear was of course that I would tip over and after already having the weight of the bike on me I really didn’t want to have to deal with that again!! So I get going but at 1st felt like I was going too fast but couldn’t seem to get my hand on the brakes and I was too worried about tipping over that I couldn’t get my balance enough to pull my feet up so they’re just dragging in the dirt!! I made it like ½ way around the yard and felt I was done!! A pathetic 1st attempt but hey at least I tried it!!!!!