{"id":677,"date":"2005-04-18T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/2005\/04\/18\/the-end-is-near\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:47:38","slug":"the-end-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2005\/04\/18\/the-end-is-near\/","title":{"rendered":"The End is Near!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>When Canadian Geese fall out of trees and onto windshields, we MUST be in end times!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never seen anything like that in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m driving home from picking up Buster\u2019s latest prescription \u2013 and I see this giant Canadian goose\u2026at least 25 lbs or more, fall through a tree,  <em>shattering<\/em> the windshield of a passing car!<\/p>\n<p>I pull over to the side, to see if the driver is alright, and all I\u2019m thinking is:<\/p>\n<p>WHAT THE???  CANADIAN GOOSE DO NOT SIT IN TREES!<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t do they?<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t believe it!  The goose was tumbling through the branches reminding me of Elmer Fudd when he suddenly finds that he\u2019s walked off a cliff and is standing on thin air.  The arms \u2013 or wings \u2013 and legs were flailing, and the bird just dropped and dropped and then, BOOM!<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the gent driving the car was unhurt, but he and his wife were certainly shaken up.  And the poor goose was simply laying there, broken, bleeding and breathing heavily.<\/p>\n<p>We were soon joined by other drivers, and the local barber and his customer, who had seen the whole thing (the customer, a big, giant Tony Sopranoesque sort of guy, face half shaved, was in charge\u2026\u201dyou awright? Everyone awright? 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