Once upon a time there was a mommy goose, a daddy goose and they had three wee gooses. The real term as you may know is, “They had three goslings but gooses sounds more fun.”
Well, the coolest news ever is that the “wee gooses” were called One, Two and Three. “Wow – you named your gooses after numbers”, said I to the mommy and daddy goose. They said, “absolutely, we did. It is the only way we can keep track. After all, there are 28 gooses, some big and some small in our family.” I said “wow, I had no idea gooses had such big Families. That is both amazing and perfectly awesome.” They said, “Yes, it is indeed. Goose families are both amazing and awesome. We love being geese. We get to do and see sooooo much. Let me tell you a story about one such time.”
The season was late Spring. The year was 2019. The place was a village called Petersfield. Have your heard of it? One, two and three’s Human Grammy lives in Petersfield.
It was a very wonderful Springtime. All the blossoms on Human Grammy’s apple tree were in bloom and the grasses down by the Creek were lush and green. They would wave back and forth to us as we swam past. My mommy and daddy said it was the wind that was blowing them gently in the breeze but I like to think they were waving at us because they liked us and wanted to say, “Hello….We are glad you swam by. We like you.” Life is more fun when you have fun with life.
Now, one day as we were swimming by Human Grammy’s place, my daddy honked his call, “honk, honk, honk.” This call means, “one, two and three…. pay attention because we are going ashore. The grasses are waving us in and we could use a little nourishment.” And so we swam as fast as our little -wee, webbed feet could make us go. Soon, we reached the sandy shore in front of Grammy’s place.
It was not easy that is for sure. We had been swimming a long way and our wee legs and wee-webbed feet were still getting strong. We were still fluffy wee gooses, not even a full year old yet. We had just been born a couple of months earlier. We had grown strong enough to leave our nest in the marsh for a little bit. And our mommy and daddy had taught us how to move our legs to swim but walking on shore was a whole other situation. We were wobbly. We were brave. We were very determined to learn. It is good to be determined when you have something new to learn.
We trusted our daddy and mommy to know that the shore in front of Human Grammy’s place was safe. And guess what…. Our auntie and uncle were swimming with our cousins in the creek too. They had decided that they would follow us. They watched out for us and we watched out for them. They had the back and we had the front. And sometimes they had the front and we had the back. We were a Goose Team of the very bestest kind. I LOVE being a Goose.
Well, the grass was very yummy. It was soooo yummy in fact that our Aunt and Uncle and their 7 wee gooses came ashore (they had a very big family). Their children were named, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and 10. Wowie! My auntie and uncle are super fun and so are my cousins.
Together we ate and ate and ate and ate some more. We climbed and jumped on a wee pile of rocks that Human Grammy put out to protect the shore. We played and ate and ate and played with our cousins. Our mommy and daddy and auntie and uncle also ate but they Watched out for us too. We trusted them. We knew, they knew the signs and sounds of danger. No danger came to us that day.
Unbeknownst to me and my cousins, there was another family of gooses out in the creek. They too were watching for our safety. They would give us a big warning call if danger approached. No danger came and soon this family joined our family and our group grew and grew and grew. Human Grammy’s yard was filled with the very best gooses ever.
We heard that Human Grammy loved it when we came to feed on her grasses.
It is the bestest of the bestest when you are a goose.
