Ahhh ... Spring time and ... LEAVES???

So spring has sprung and all the snow is gone. As I looked out over the backyard yesterday I sat back and thought to myself "Shit, I never did finish raking those leaves". And that lead me to wonder why we call them leaves. I mean they never really LEAVE unless you rake them up and get rid of them! This of course led me to start pondering other questions that have spent time bouncing around my head, like why do we call them buildings when they are all ready built! (thank Gallagher for planting that question in my head).

Many moons ago I was walking in Washington D.C. with my sister amongst hundreds of pigeons and she asked me where pigeons came from. At first I chuckled because she can be a little ditsy at times (sorry sis) but then I got to thinking about it ... where do pigeons come from ... I mean, you NEVER see a baby pigeon! You may have never thought about this before (because I know I hadn't until my sister asked the question) but I bet you are now! See how that happens, someone plants a thought and BOOM, like an STD on Paris Hilton, it just stays with ya!

Thank God for the internet, or was it Al Gore that I need to thank for the internet? Either way I have spent many hours researching stupid questions. OK, not many hours, but I have spent some time on it (of course I was amazed at first that there was more on the internet then just porn ... there's like useful shit on there too!).

(NOTE: I must confess that all of my research is really just a Google search. If Google had been around when I was in school I would have been a much better student ... do you know how many reports I had to buy in my 6 years of high school?)

So after some in depth Google research I figured out why we never see baby pigeons ... because they're freaking UGLY! No really ... LOOK!

OK I will admit that they do kind of grow on you in an E.T. / Chelsea Clinton kind of way, but I can still understand why their moms would want to hide them for a bit.

The truth is that pigeons grow really fast. Although they LOOK all grown up they are still just little kids. (Holy shit, maybe I'm a pigeon!)

So there is your lesson on pigeons, or as much of a lesson as you're going to get here. After all, I'm not the Discovery Channel.

I know this post didn't amount to much but it did serve a purpose. Last years leaves get to hang out in the backyard at least one more day!