Wearing Many Hats to Confuse the Minions

 

This morning when I got to my office, I found Niko safely snuggled against his nameless girlfriend after two nights of bliss together, under the shade of a sunflower.

It was a bad day weatherwise, at least in the morning. I wore my warmest hat and warmest coat, and I walked outside in the driving snow at ten. Seabird and I walked under the overhang on the third floor at lunch, and she told me the postcard from Puerto Rico had just arrived. That was the one I sent to the FART 5 gang; the one I sent to our gang on the 8th floor came in just a few days. As we waited for the elevator, our boss appeared, and she said she thought someone had sent the postcard to her old department and that's why it took so long to get there. No word on how long the postcard took to get to Ma and Pa Hat...

In the afternoon a grad student I often chat with stopped by, and we talked politics as usual. I said how I have the Contrarian hat I wore today that I had gotten for the upcoming protest, but I also have the plaid tam with the red tasseled hat pin, and when I posted a photo of that on social media, my neighbor said her friend is making me an actual red tasseled hat. I said now I have three hats to wear to the protest, and the grad student said I could just keep switching them so Dear Leader's minions can't figure out who I am. That is not a bad idea... They are all soft, so I could easily put them in my pockets.

Travalon got home from work earlier than usual, so he went out to the dock and took more photos. The light was getting dim by then, so a lot of them didn't really turn out, but here are a few that did, of northern shovelers and cranes.

I can tell the others are of the two mallard couples (including Tux Duck), common mergansers, and ring-necked ducks, and there may have been a hooded merganser. Travalon also made two videos, of a muskrat swimming and what I'd call "duck porn," two mallards doing a mating dance, engaging in the act, and then the male has the zoomies afterwards while the female beats her wings. Those both need to be edited, but I may post them at some point, so watch for that.

Famous Hat