This morning I interfered with nature.
I know you’re not supposed to do that but I did. I couldn’t help it. I’m sure the whole world will now shift and the earth will spin off its axis but I couldn’t help it. This morning after walking around the park with the mutts instead of going for our usual half hour walk because I was feeling LAZY, we saw a Mama duck and her 11 ducklings. Eleven little balls of fluffy feathers swimming and eating the gross green scum on the top of the pond. NO, I didn’t interfere with them even though I really wanted one to leave its Mother, swim over to me and jump on the bank so I could pet it. No, I didn’t butt in there.
I also didn’t butt in when I saw a baby Robin on the ground hopping pathetically in the grass. The poor thing was way too young to be on its own and couldn’t fly away. What kind of a crap-ass mother does it have to kick it out when it was OBVIOUS it wasn’t ready?! No, I let that one go too. I did however yell at Lucy the Lab to stay away and not to interfere by licking it.
Then, as we were rounding the last bend Lucy ran over to a rock at the top of the stream bank and started nosing it. Then it moved. It was a turtle. A pretty big box turtle, maybe three inches wide and a good 6 inches long. It was stuck on the steepest part of the bank and as we were watching it, it flipped over and rolled back down. I watched it roll and felt so bad for it as it wriggled and struggled to get back onto its four legs. I couldn’t stand it any longer. So yes, I interfered. I went and picked him up and put him at the top of the bank and wished him luck.
Now all I can think about is if that damned thing really was heading up and not trying to actually make it down the bank. Oh well, the damage is done now.