den: (cranky)
den ([personal profile] den) wrote2005-02-17 10:17 pm

Peewee Drama

I was relaxing on the patio in the cool of the evening, sipping a coffee and watching the peewees play in the lawn sprinkler. There was a brief shadow overhead and a brown falcon slammed down onto the smallest peewee. The others scattered in fright. The falcon flipped the peewee onto her back and plucked out a beakful of chest feathers.

That's when it received one of Polly's tennis balls to the back of its head. Both birds tumbled over. The peewee flew for safety under the table and the falcon screamed in anger. I shouted at it and waved a stick in the air, like some cro-magnon hunter going for the kill except I don't imagine cro-magnon man ever shouted "That's my bloody PEEWEE ya bastard!" The falcon shot off into the sycamore, and I threw things at it until it left.

I caught the poor freaked out peewee and put her back in her cage. She calmed down a lot and doesn't appear to be injured apart from a bald patch on her chest. The others are hiding in the dense leaves of the Chinese Elm and are very quiet. Poor little bird: one day of freedom then Nature struck. Technically I should have let Nature take its course, but it was my bloody peewee dammit.

[identity profile] tatterdemalion.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
indeed and good on you...


how dare it attack YOUR peewee

Impressive Doggie Toy Reflexes

[identity profile] blush10ac.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
:)

[identity profile] odiedragon.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Good shot there, mate! ;)

[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
And speaking for the opposition---

That poor falcon may have been trying to secure food for its own young,
and a callous, nearly-hairless ape's actions meant a beautiful, majestic
raptor's babies had to go to bed HUNGRY...

Nature is the way it is for a reason, Den-me-boy---

---And YOU just bounced a ball off her feathered head.

(That'll teach the little bare-breasted peewee not to play in sprinklers, too!)

*hehehe!*

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't have minded much if the raptor did in the pigeon, but it was MY BLOODY PEEWEE! When they leave the yard and start doing peewee things they'll be on their own but until then they're MY peewees.

I think kids should be allowed to play in lawn sprinklers on hot days without the threat of being eaten by carnivores.



[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
But carnivores like treats (tweets?) like anyone else, and what's more enticing to an overheated raptor on a hot day that a cool, wet "tweety bird"?

(evil grin)

[identity profile] tropism.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
In my neighborhood, I'd prefer it if the kids had to contest with the threat of being eaten by carnivores. Mind you, I'm not referring to birds here.
jenny_evergreen: (Default)

[personal profile] jenny_evergreen 2005-02-17 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Last I checked, humans were still part of nature...:)

[identity profile] ursulav.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Best. Story. Ever.

Your place in the peewee mythology as some legendary protector of their kind is now secure.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
HOORAY! Send in the oracular slugs!

[identity profile] hedgegoth.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Good on yer.

I'm all for the hawks gotta eat, but not your peewees!

[identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The PeeWees have learned an important lesson: the world is not just a big friendly place filled with good humans and friendly creatures.It's true of humans too, alas. When they get out into the great beyond, they'll be ready to dodge! The little peewee is lucky; those hawks can strip a dove in minutes flat. I know, I've seen it. The other lesson is the falcon will think twice before hunting in your yard:D.

[identity profile] goodluckfox.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
(Ripley)"Get away from her you BITCH! (/ripley)

Well done, Den. :)

Loxley

[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
The thought of Den "in drag", wearing a "power suit"...and using it to POWER TOSS tennis balls at "big, bad birdies"---

MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAH!!!!!

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Shush!

And I don't do undies over the top of my pants.

[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
And I doubt you look as good as Sigorny Weaver did in HER undies (first Alien movie), either...

*heh!*
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[personal profile] frith 2005-02-17 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you keep tennis balls on hand just in case? X-D

Poor Peewee -- about to be eaten alive!!

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
it was the first thing I grabbed. It could have been a stick or a plastic chair.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/ 2005-02-17 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
So you aussies really ARE a dead shot with throwing things. I thought that was just Crocodile Dundee. ;-)

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2005-02-17 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's called Panic. Normally I'm as accurate as a Stormtrooper.

[identity profile] damienps.livejournal.com 2006-12-03 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
From which part of the movie?

When the shots are too accurate for Sand People or the idiots in the Death Star :D

[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Don't stand next to him if he flings a boomerang---

It'll come back to HAUNT you!

*hehehe!!!*

[personal profile] pipibluestockin 2005-02-18 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Like any carer of children the reaction when some one threatens your little people tends to get dramatic

[identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Your standing in the Peewee mafia is now assured for all time.

Good on ya' mate :)

Turn that falcon into a pidgeon fancier!

[personal profile] pipibluestockin 2005-02-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps you need fancier pidgeons - or colour code your Peewees?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Unusual-Tales/Fancier-pigeons/2005/02/17/1108609347484.html

[identity profile] kelloggs2066.livejournal.com 2005-02-18 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hee! Great story, Bud!

[identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com 2005-02-22 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't imagine cro-magnon man ever shouted "That's my bloody PEEWEE ya bastard!"

Oh, I'm sure they did shout the equivalent in similar situations a lot of times. Some things about humans don't change.

And you were letting Nature take its course. You're a part of the scheme, hence your peewee===off-limits.

Found you from [livejournal.com profile] metaquotes; reading back a few entries and enjoying it a lot. Hope you don't mind it.

[identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com 2006-12-03 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Now how many favors does that mean the mafia owes you, now?

Have the best

-=TK