Beginning Preparations

God has such a sense of humor with His creation!  Since we purchased a "new to us" Suburban, it has a reflective quality around the bottom of it and a robin has found it very bothersome!  How dare that other robin show itself like that!  So, it pecks, poops and flutters all over the reflective area.  It gives Mr. G and I quite a chuckle.  We really don't mind because quite honestly, the robin will eventually "get a clue" and go away to do their own thing, eat worms, build a nest and get on with it's life.  

Our youngest son, however, thinks of things a bit differently.   He was trying to scare it off by shooting his Air Soft gun in the air.  Not hitting the bird, but just trying to scare it off.  After trying to convince him that the robin would find it a futile pursuit--trying to fight the robin in the reflection--he/she would leave and get on with their life, he wasn't convinced.  He was more bothered by the poop on the running boards and the bird pecking at the vehicle than just letting the robin decide for itself that the robin in the reflection wasn't so bothersome after all. 

That was yesterday.

Today, I sent my oldest out to see if he could video tape the robin.  The above video is what the robin has been doing.  However, today has been a bit different.  The robin is taking more time away from the vehicle, turning away from the robin in the reflection and just beginning to settle down and accept the reflection.

(seems that each of us could do that, huh?)

...not waxing philosophic--just glean what you will...

Anyway, all of this hilarity has occurred throughout our daily preparations for our first 

camping trip in 8 years.  

There's more, believe me!  

...this was just one instance of hilariousness...