Sunday, March 8, 2009

GUS GETS A HABITAT

If you have ever been to our house you know who Gus is. He is Greg's bronze pelican. While we were building the house Greg decided that he had to have a pelican to remind him of all the days he spent out on the boat fishing and seeing the pelicans on those trips. He went on line and found the artist he liked and ordered a pelican from New York. On moving day we had the pelican loaded up and brought over. We placed it in the back yard where we could see him out the back windows. We had a Fourth of July gathering at our house and everyone who attended was advised that at the conclusion of the evening we would take suggestions for a name and vote on it and name the pelican. You have probably guessed by now that the vote was to name him Gus.Once we got settled and were about to turn our attention to some touches in the yard along came Ike. We lost our back wall with the storm so we had to wait to get the wall rebuilt. By that time along came the holidays. And then the cold weather held up progress. As the months passed and we looked out back at Gus Greg decided that we needed to put some ornamental grass around him so he would appear to be in a natural habitat. This is the first warm weekend we have had so I went out and built Gus a little habitat with some tropical things and some grass that I thought might resemble a marsh. So now Gus has a habitat and Greg a can look out and remember all of his good times out in the boat looking at the birds!


2 comments:

NesrstaFamily said...

I love Gus! I think he is the perfect guy for you both.

Cynthia Clemmons said...

You did a beautiful job. Such a neat thing for Greg to look out at & have such good memories. Can't wait to see decorated around him for the holidays :)