Fat and Sassy. #Wordless Wednesday #Good thing I’m not a turkey, I’d be a goner! #Canada Goose

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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63 Responses to Fat and Sassy. #Wordless Wednesday #Good thing I’m not a turkey, I’d be a goner! #Canada Goose

  1. rajkkhoja says:
    November 2, 2022 at 5:13 am

    Wonderful photography.

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  2. Dave says:
    November 2, 2022 at 7:44 am

    And this is why we have the word “plump”!

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  3. peggy says:
    November 2, 2022 at 7:54 am

    Ah – time for rest and relaxation.

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  4. Kate Crimmins says:
    November 2, 2022 at 8:17 am

    I love Canadian geese (although folks here think they are a nuisance). So elegant.

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  5. Laurie says:
    November 2, 2022 at 11:28 am

    Wow! That goose is…ummm…plump!

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  6. Barbara Rodgers says:
    November 2, 2022 at 11:47 am

    Definitely a goose you could say “boo” to! 🙂 She looks so relaxed.

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  7. AnnMarie R stevens says:
    November 2, 2022 at 3:52 pm

    Miss Linda………………………………………I’m content and just minding my own business!………………………………(nice close up )

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  9. TD says:
    November 2, 2022 at 8:24 pm

    “Good thing I’m not a turkey…” gave me a really good and much needed laugh! I’m glad that I’m not a turkey too… oh you got me laughing!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      November 2, 2022 at 8:41 pm

      Glad to give you a smile TD. This goose was pretty chunky and it may have been just the camera angle, but that line worked perfectly as we near “gobble ’til you wobble” day.

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  11. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    November 3, 2022 at 6:23 am

    🤣😂😁 Great photos and I love the title!!

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  12. Ally Bean says:
    November 3, 2022 at 10:49 am

    Well as a child we had roast goose for Christmas dinner so this guy might still want to be careful. Just saying

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      November 3, 2022 at 7:36 pm

      You’re right – that goose better watch itself. Funny you say that about the roast goose Ally because after reading your comment, I knew I did a post about having roast goose and I found it … from way back in 2014. Here’s a few lines what I wrote because that goose was repurposed (though I don’t think the term “repurposed” was used back in the day):

      “My father liked roast goose and we occasionally had it for Christmas dinner. He was German and a favorite treat for him was goose drippings spread on toast. He made my mom save the goose grease, which she’d pour into a crock and after it hardened, he’d spread it thick on toast. My mom and I didn’t fight to share it with him. He also slathered that stuff on his chest, then put a red flannel over it when he had a bad cold … I got the mentholated Vicks VapoRub smeared under my nose and on my chest to knock that cold down fast. I didn’t like those menthol fumes but I think it was better than goose grease.”

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      • Ally Bean says:
        November 4, 2022 at 9:35 am

        Oh man, goose grease! Ugh. I never liked roast goose because of the grease, but I guess if it tastes good to you, then eat it. But none for me.

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 4, 2022 at 10:38 pm

        You’re exactly like me Ally. My mom and I didn’t care for duck, Cornish hen or goose, all food my father had grown up eating in his native Germany. We found them all greasy and a lot of dark meat. Yes, ugh to the goose grease that would solidify like butter and he’d slather it on hot toast. A waste of good toast IMHO.

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  13. Joni says:
    November 3, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    That is one fat goose!

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  14. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    November 3, 2022 at 10:17 pm

    There’s a million of them now at local ponds! 😁

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  15. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    November 3, 2022 at 10:19 pm

    If the good treasures that they poop were only worth money! 😎 We’d be rich!

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  16. LaShelle says:
    November 4, 2022 at 9:34 am

    Linda, I have missed your blog AND your nature photos SO much. Sorry for being MIA. An early frost hit our farm and moved up our timeline to button up the farm for winter. It’s been crazy busy and there isn’t a single muscle in my body that doesn’t ache. I can’t wait to catch up with you and I feel so much better now that I made some time for my blog too.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      November 4, 2022 at 10:43 pm

      I was wondering if you were ill LaShelle because I knew you were going to do some Halloween/spooky season posts. I even looked on your site to see if a post didn’t show up in Reader (it would not be the first time that happened). Well, I’m glad it was not illness and just Mother Nature (she is a pain, is she not … we had a wintry mix October 24th and 25th, then a few days later we have had record warm weather – tomorrow we will hit 72! I like it as I’ve gotten a lot of walking in. I know how you feel – I used to do more in the garden and it was hard work, especially Spring and Fall. Hope you like the special Halloween post and the card. Take care and rest those weary muscles.

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      • LaShelle says:
        November 5, 2022 at 9:13 am

        I did struggle with my health on and off as well but most of it involved m
        Working my butt off ☺️. It got hot here too suddenly!! I think later this week we’re supposed to hit 85 degrees 😵‍💫 which is absolutely crazy. I did make a post yesterday so i look forward to hearing your thoughts when you have time to read it 🥰. I’m so glad you’ve done well with your walking, do you slow down a little in the winter time? I’ll be catching up on the blogs I’ve missed from you this week! Your Halloween post sounds AMAZING.

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 5, 2022 at 5:50 pm

        I’m sorry you had health struggles because as sore as those muscles get doing yard work and heavy gardening work, at least that muscle soreness goes away after a few days. I know as I did all the landscaping in the backyard back in 1985. We had shrubs for the front and back yards and a small tree delivered from a local nursery, but they did not deliver mulch and wooden planks for perimeter gardens … now they do, but then they did not. I hauled everything home in my Pacer from the lumberyard and the nursery. Trip after trip – got myself a flat dolly and that made a lot of difference in handling all these materials from the car to the backyard but my house is small and you’re talking about a lot of property at your farm and cutting garden. I don’t know how you did it … wow. Kudos to you LaShelle!

        I was in the backyard this afternoon and it is nothing like in its glory days with the butterfly garden and roses – I lost lots of shrubs, my butterfly bushes and all my perennials in the Polar Vortex of Winter of 2013-2014. I was so angry I pulled everything out and left it and did not replant new ones. I will do something with the backyard when I’m retired and have more time. Now with walking/blogging and work, it doesn’t leave much time. On the other hand, with the weather being as erratic as it is, I’m reluctant to plant too many new perennials … it’s either too hot and/or dry and you have to water like crazy, or it’s too rainy – days and days of rain and everything gets waterlogged. I’ve got to make a decision what to do. I have silk flowers in the front and side. I got them from Michaels and “planted” them in my pots/baskets and I had a wooden wheelbarrow and a rocking chair I had flowers in/on, but both rotted away from all the rain and humidity and I had to throw them away … so I waver on how much to invest time and moneywise. The flowers are very realistic, bendable and lasted about five years – I need to get new silk flowers next year.

        My grass out back looks terrible and I’m leaning toward mulched paths down the road. I am so behind here … I hoped to catch up this weekend, but had a contractor in today for a fix and that was a chunk out of my day so I only wrote a short post for Monday. We are very warm here too … 72 degrees and high winds … weather is a little crazy! My goal is to reach 1,256 miles. I am about 115 miles away as of now – I racked up a lot of miles in October as we had so little rain. I always try to get a lot of miles done in November too as December might get snowy or icy. I have walked in the snow to the Park (one mile from here), but if it’s icy I don’t go during the week, but I have gone on a weekend when I can go later and the ice has melted. I have photos from July through October I’ve got to sort through, but when? I will go check out your post LaShelle.

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      • LaShelle says:
        November 5, 2022 at 7:46 pm

        You’re amazing! It’s a lot of upkeep for one person too and 115 miles WOW 😲 you’re my hero! The silk flowers is a great idea by the way. There’s a new fake grass out that looks super realistic and you don’t have to mow. You may wanna try something like that? Just a thought!!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 5, 2022 at 8:18 pm

        Wow – I never thought about fake grass LaShelle … I like that idea. I don’t have much property either, so that would be wonderful.
        My front yard looks terrible – it went from lush to Brillo pad in record time this Summer. My neighbor’s tree on the City property has roots coming through the grass there, so that doesn’t help. The silk flowers didn’t fade for years and I bought heavy rocks and put them into net bags (like you get oranges and grapefruits in), then attached pipecleaners to the flower stems or lower point where there are leaves at one end and on the other end hook it onto the net bag to secure them so they didn’t blow away … it was great after years of deadheading, weeding, trimming … then in 2021 I got a few hanging baskets for the side. Those I got from Amazon and up close they look fake, but from the street or sidewalk, they look great. It confuses the hummingbird though. 🙂 It gives me more time for walking. I am excited as we have warm weather for the next week or so … no ice/snow. We once had a huge snowfall, maybe 7 inches of snow on Veteran’s Day. I’ll keep on walking as much as I can.

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      • LaShelle says:
        November 5, 2022 at 8:54 pm

        The fake grass my friend got was crazy realistic and absolutely lovely. It saves on water and is maintenance free. To clean, she hoses it off and let’s it dry. She has quite a bit of it too!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 6, 2022 at 9:00 pm

        I’ve been thinking about that today LaShelle. I really like that idea – my property is not large and because of other people’s big trees, the backyard has too much shade. No watering or cutting sounds wonderful to me. I am going to look into it before next Spring.

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      • LaShelle says:
        November 6, 2022 at 9:01 pm

        I’m so glad!!! I think you’ll be really pleased AND you can go barefoot whenever 🤪

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 6, 2022 at 9:08 pm

        Yes, it would be great – except my neighbor saw a raccoon in our yards and I found poop which I blamed on a cat (though it was on the grass). I sent him a FB message and asked if he saw any cats in the yard and he said “nope, just a fat raccoon.” OMG Last year it was an opposum.

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      • LaShelle says:
        November 6, 2022 at 9:13 pm

        The good news is that you can actually hose it off and clean it easily. That’s how my friend cleans her’s. You COULD also try moss instead and there’s a clover that’s amazing too! You just order the seeds, water it, let it grow and it never gets as tall as grass does but it stays a stunning green ALL year around. Both grow well in shaded areas too.

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 6, 2022 at 10:00 pm

        Thank you for this info too LaShelle. There is an amazing corner house here in my City. I go to visit this property a few times a year … they have no grass, just ground cover (ivy) (I would worry about critters like mice being in ground ivy as it grows up to your ankles). The rest of their property is a lot of tulips and crocuses, daffodils in Spring. They have a lot of yard art – they especially like frogs, so lots of cement frogs around. And I should go there this week as they put all their pumpkins out for the critters (I hope just squirrels). Last year in the snow there were pumpkins everywhere and kale blooming yet covered with snow!

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  17. indianeskitchen says:
    November 4, 2022 at 11:49 pm

    Great picture, I love the way it looks like rings around the goose. They were flying over our house today heading south.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      November 5, 2022 at 5:29 pm

      Thank you Diane – this goose was really plump. I like watching them fly overhead or when they descend. It just amazes me how they stay coordinated and together up there, especially a huge flock of geese. The homeowner whose house is on the fringe of the Park gave them corn all Summer has stopped, but I noticed they have a bunch of pumpkins where the corn was now. I have to walk over there to the fringe of the Park and see if I can get some shots of the squirrels in the pumpkins … I can’t imagine geese eat pumpkin. I found a huge chunk of pumpkin in my backyard, dragged there by some critter … my neighbor says he sees raccoons after dark and came home late one night to see a raccoon inside his garbage can and he had thrown garbage out of the can to climb in there. Nervy!

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      • indianeskitchen says:
        November 5, 2022 at 8:06 pm

        The critters do anything for food. We had a mouse get in our basement a few years back and it ate through a bag of pasta and ran off with it a piece at a time. Somehow it got into my closed plastic Christmas tote and stored them in there. I think the fact that the totes were stacked, the weight caused just enough gap in the tote for the mouse to get into. Lol Now we store all out food items that are not in cans in plastic totes that seal good. No more issues!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        November 5, 2022 at 8:35 pm

        I would have had a heart attack for sure. I am concerned my side door has a tiny gap in it … I know a mouse can get in a 1/4 inch gap … when the handyman comes for the gutters, I’m going to see what he can do – maybe a hook and eye to pull it tighter. I’m otherwise at a loss and don’t want to get a new storm door right now. I had a locksmith in a few weeks ago – two deadbolts went bad within a week or so of each other … one was put in in 1984, the other one about 8 years ago. The locksmith, when asked why they both would go bad at the same time, but difference in when they were put in, he said the house is shifting due to hot/cold temperature extremes. The doorframe moves and shifts. I don’t want a new storm door if it will do the same thing. I got a huge crack in my ceiling recently – it HAD been a tiny hairline crack, now across the ceiling and down the wall about a foot … I was horrified!

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  18. singlikewildflowers says:
    November 6, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    The goose looks very happy, warm, and content. A bit round but good for the coming chill!

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  19. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    November 8, 2022 at 5:38 pm

    Funny blog post title! That goose may have been safe for Thanksgiving but it better be careful around Christmas 🙂

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      November 8, 2022 at 8:58 pm

      Thanks Janis – I like to have some fun with my blog titles. 🙂 Ally and I were reminiscing (and not in a wonderful way) of how we had roast geese for holiday dinners back in the day. My father would save the goose grease and when it was hard, he’d put it on toast. Ugh. It’s mighty plump for Christmas dinner! That goose had better vamoose!

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  20. J P says:
    November 18, 2022 at 5:56 am

    You mentioned it in a comment reply above, but before I saw it my first thought went to that song “Christmas is Coming”. I think I learned it in elementary school.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      November 18, 2022 at 10:00 pm

      I learned that song in elementary school too JP and for some reason I thought it was because of growing up in Canada and the British influence, roast goose being more of British fare. So you learned that song as well: “… the goose is getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man’s hat.”

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