I must feel the strain of living in a litigious society (and yes, I had to check the spelling on that word).
The Bananalets are helping me with my paint-the-hallway-and living room-and-Mom's-bedroom-before-school-starts-again project. Today we got most of the living room done. But not without lawsuits surfacing in my mind three times.
They were all related to what we believe to be the stupidest pigeon ever in the history of birddom. A robin nests every spring on top of our porch light and we let it. Our mistake this year is that we neglected to remove the nest once the fledglings had left. A pigeon found it and has nested in it. Due to being at camp, we did not discover this till after eggs were in the nest. So, here the pigeon sits, waiting to hatch out its birdlings, only a brick away from our front door.This lead to two of my thoughts of lawsuits (well, technically, the same thought twice): What if the pigeon babies are born with problems and the mother decides to sue us due to their inhaling paint fumes pre-hatching? (And, yes, this lead me to wonder if perhaps I was the one inhaling too many paint fumes.)
This pigeon is too stupid to even take off when you open the door. Which has led to a great fear on our part that the bird will panic sometime the door is open and come in our house. As someone who visited the aviary once and was used by a scarlet ibis for target practice, I believe a pigeon in the house would not be good. So, to remind us to make sure to make lots of noise and scare off the pigeon before opening the door, Miss Language posted this "stupid pigeon alert" sign inside our door.
Unfortunately, we did not put a warning sign in the front yard as usually no one comes by that door. We discovered our error as Mr FedEx came right up to the door. I met him at the door and was just starting the words, "Wa(tch out for the stupid pigeon") as the pigeon swooped down about two inches from his head. Yes, I thought I might be doing CPR on the spot, and then seeing Mr FedEx and his attorneys in court. (He was pretty nice about it, once his heart calmed down a bit. He even showed me the dog bite on his thigh from 3 weeks ago. I bet now he is telling our neighbors about our guard pigeon.)
The Bananalets are suggesting we post a "Cave Avis" sign in the yard. See where classical homeschooling gets you? | 
