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Archive for 15th April 2009

So it now looks anywhere on our balconies. Nope, watt isset nice! My family loves flowers, very clear. Garden centers are currently in high demand. Potting soil with a high proportion of guano, a variety of seedlings, sowing - the shopping list is long, filled to the bursting of the bicycle trailer regularly.
My oldest, now read compatible (you know: tongue clamped between her teeth, finger on the plastic, "GUANO ... Guano!"), Asked me in the middle market, what was guano.

It was on my tongue to reply: "Guano, even so, this is a fine-grained mixture of various calcium phosphates, brushite (CaHPO 4 × 2 H2O), monetite (CaHPO 4), whitlockite (CA9 (Mg, Fe) [HPO4 / (PO4) 6]) and various apatites and nitrates and organic compounds. "
But nothing there, instead I said. "Bird poop that landed on limestone" Big eyes, then (maybe one, two Ideechen too loud): "poo?"
I nodded, he wanted it but as a budding biologist to know more - penguins, cormorants, all right.

"But those, right?" He asked at home, pointing to our breeding guest. No, it does not already own, but because the guest secretes liquid excrement, but it lacks in the area of ​​limestone.

Now times that among us: The one with the planet and everyone can Blomen. Assuming that the thumb is green rather than black, but it will work. Our guest, however you can not brood topped determined.
Two years ago, a duck trying to seize our flower box. Although they laid eggs, but did not return to complete their breeding business. We were so considerate, like a family with two boys can just be. Last year she returned, once again laid eggs and brooded until the optimal point. The family was allowed to watch even as the chicks with their Eizähnen blazed a path through the dish to life. The chicks were brought to the Fleet, together with Mama, as she prepared to push the kids from the balcony. During the subsequent inspection of the "incubator" for the design and provision after all is more of a flower pot, my wife discovered two eggs that were not in the pile of shells, but something pushed to the edge. But because they were still warm, incubated the eggs on the surrogate mother. A cleavage is good not only for aesthetic reasons but also as a nest. From two eggs actually hatched chicks. One was very skinny and small, one had a bent back her head. The lanky Pipsi was called, a decision by the guys who bend neck was called stargazers.

Pipsi died three weeks later, had hardly put on weight and even refused the hand-feeding chicks with loose grain in a largely syringe. Stargazers is at least six weeks old has become, has to be eaten later, even chicks grain itself. The weakness of the neck, had initially been given to high-dose vitamin K-/B-Injektionen, but came on again.

Some things are much easier to bear if one is not the person to whom the chicks scurry behind, on whose shoulders it falls asleep and his beard plucked it constantly. # Small writing break.

This year, the duck's back. And so she sits there, watching us as we watch her, gives her last slip, in order to provide a good breeding business, and when we wake up soon left early, hopefully have gathered a whole bunch of chicks around.

The biggest favor they would do to me if they could not return two eggs. And my wife does not serve the section as a breeding ground again and again I would not risk my emotional integrity. (@ Johanna: What really makes an impression when men are at the vet and weep for a duckling?)

"You a wallflower. You will regret it, I'll get ready. "

[Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, in October 2008 after a not pleasant for him, journalist Monika Olejnik critical interview]

A note: Kaczynski, who has made ​​his (among others), anti-gay decisions for plenty of resentment in Europe, played along with his twin brother Jaroslaw 1962, the main roles (Placek and Jacek) in the Polish children's film O dwóch takich, co ukradli ksiezyc * (" Of two who stole the Moon "), an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Kornel Makuszyński from the year 1928.
One is about the theft of another's property or something beyond the usual, at least this preconception is lovingly cared for and maintained ("In the morning, 9:30 in Poland: Where is my Knoppers?"), But it had to be equal to the moon?
And one more note: Opponents of the policy refer to these as "Kaczismus". The twins are often called "Drake", the surname derives from the Polish word for duck, Kaczka, from.

* I know, is missing in the s still such a check, but that can not be displayed.