Dave is the life-sized statue of Michelangelo's David that resides in our back yard. I dress him up from time to time. Especially on holidays. (Nice berries, dontcha think?)
See you below for the fold for how I put one over on mrcreek.
And before you go feeling sorry for him, know this: That man has fooled me many a time. This was a great payback.
And consider this a metaphor for navigating the new DK4. It may not initially be what it appears to be, but don't feel tricked. And have fun!
Consider this an open thread to kvetch, play pranks, and ask DK4 questions.
Last week a friend of mine, who knows I love oddities, gave me this large black rubber bird. When I got home it was lightly raining, and before coming inside I slipped down to the garden and put the bird on Dave's shoulder.
mrcreek was making dinner. I glanced out the kitchen window and remarked, "Why, look at that! A bird is sitting on Dave's shoulder!"
From a distance and through the rain mrcreek took that bird for real, and got real excited.
He grabbed the binoculars. "Pretty big crow, isn't it?" I asked.
mrcreek likes to identify birds. "That's no crow," he said. "Look at the size of its feet! And look at that orange beak!" Under any other circumstances he would have gone outside for a closer look, but it was wet, and getting dark, and dinner was underway. So instead he ran to the laptop and started googling Waterfowl.
Just then a perfectly-timed gust of wind came up, and when mrcreek looked out the window again the bird was gone. He continued to speculate throughout the evening what kind of waterfowl had fetched up in our yard while I did my best to hold myself in check.
The next morning I dashed out in the rain and replaced the bird on Dave's shoulder, then waited.
Sure enough, within the hour mrcreek hollered, "You're not going to believe it! That bird came back!" Since it was raining and he wasn't dressed yet he resumed studying it through the window with the binoculars, consulted teh google, and announced, "It's a coot!"
"Not an old coot," I said, giggling hard now.
He gave me a stern look and assured me it was most definitely a coot.
When I began whooping with laughter he threw on his shoes and crept out the back door to investigate, sneaking up as slowly as he could on our visiting coot......
I'm still waiting for him to get even.
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