{"id":460,"date":"2011-03-19T08:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T12:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:58:05","slug":"of-geese-and-watertowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Of Geese and Watertowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     The SignPrinters building on the west side of Tallahassee is located in an industrial park.  Not dank and dark but full of greenery and 7 large holding ponds that catch the rain water runoff.  The ponds contain water year round.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2237-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Geese\" title=\"Geese\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2237-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2237-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2237.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I guess we should not have been surprised, therefore to see this family of geese waddling along the side of our building on their way to the biggest of the ponds.  A little scene like this can do wonders to lighten the day and we had all the employees come outside to watch the scene.<\/p>\n<p>     My last post detailed my trip to St. Petersburg to see my brothers.  I spent the day Saturday with my brother Pete and my wife, Carolyn and her sister, Charlene headed for Winter Haven to visit their 99 year old aunt Marie.  <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2747-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN2747\" title=\"DSCN2747\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2747-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2747-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSCN2747.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>  Near Lakeland, Florida, they snapped this picture of a watertower made up like a birthday cake.  From the ground it is not possible to tell the flavor of icing used, but it appears to be butter creme, my favorite.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SignPrinters building on the west side of Tallahassee is located in an industrial park. Not dank and dark but full of greenery and 7 large holding ponds that catch the rain water runoff. The ponds contain water year round. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=460\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}