Northern Shoveler duck

    Shovel Ready Jobs

    Karl and Claudia were disappointed; while summering in northern Wisconsin, they had heard that there were shovel ready jobs in Texas, and so migrated early. Even though they were Northern Shovelers by birth (hatching?) and had their own shovels, there were no jobs; all the funding had been spent on Solyndra.

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      There Goes the Neighborhood

      Linda (rear, left, cute little white beak) quietly whispered to her husband, Thom (right rear), “Well, those big-beak shovelers are here; there goes the neighborhood . . . ”

      By |September 11th, 2014|Categories: Birds, Texas|Tags: , |Comments Off on There Goes the Neighborhood