Bertie & Gertie's Porch Goose Adventures

08/25/2026

We are sad here at the coop, we loved our Dolly
❤️🥺🦋🦋🦋

Zac Brown Band - Butterfly (feat. Dolly Parton) [Official Music Vid...

08/03/2026

🐝 Bertie says to bee kind and have beeutiful Monday! 🐝

07/17/2026

Bertie had to mask up with all of this smoke! Stay cooped up!

06/23/2026

Welcome back to Talking With The Flock 250 Series!
Tonight, we gather not to celebrate a victory, but to remember a sacrifice. As we look back 250 years, we turn our attention to Fort Washington, where courage stood against overwhelming odds and many of the men who answered the call for liberty faced their darkest hour.
So settle in, feathered friends, and join the flock as we honor their story, their service, and the price they paid in the struggle for American independence.

06/12/2026

Welcome to Talking With The Flock 250 Series! Where Bertie shares stories of historical events and people that helped form our nation. Happy 250th! 🇺🇲 🎆

05/25/2026

Bertie and Gertie want to remind the flock that Memorial Day is more than the start of summer, cookouts, or long weekends. It is a sacred pause in the life of a nation — a day set aside to remember the men and women who gave everything so that others could live free.

Today we remember the soldiers who never came home. From the fields of the American Revolution and Civil War, to the beaches of Normandy, the mountains of Korea, the jungles of Vietnam, the deserts of Iraq and Kuwait, and the rugged terrain of Afghanistan — generation after generation answered the call to serve.

We remember those lost in World War I and World War II, where millions around the world fought against tyranny and countless Americans never returned home. We remember the young men frozen in the harsh winters of Korea, the service members who carried the weight of Vietnam, and those who served during conflicts in Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

We honor the fallen from Desert Storm and the Global War on Terror — the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and now Guardians who served after September 11th. We remember those lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, in dangerous missions far from home, and the families who carried the burden of every deployment, every knock at the door, and every folded flag handed over in silence.

Some rest beneath white crosses in distant lands. Others came home only in memory and story, carried through generations by families who refused to let them be forgotten.

Memorial Day asks something simple of us: remember them.

Remember that freedom was not handed down lightly. It was defended in muddy trenches, on storm-tossed seas, in foreign forests, and on battlefields where ordinary Americans showed extraordinary courage. Remember the empty chairs at family tables. The Gold Star families whose sacrifice continues long after the guns fall silent. The names etched into stone monuments in small towns and cities across America.

And remember that behind every name was a human life — someone who laughed, dreamed, loved, worried, and hoped for the future.

We honor them not only with ceremonies and flags, but by living in a way worthy of their sacrifice: with gratitude, with compassion, with unity, and with an understanding that liberty has always come at a cost.

So today, may we pause for more than a moment.
May we speak their names.
May we tell their stories.
And may we never allow their sacrifice to fade into history.

Because remembrance is how we carry them forward.

05/20/2026

Makers don't forget there's a goose with a big caboose! The 29'ers and up! 🪿🤣

05/15/2026

Today Bertie went for a fly and dropped in on her dear friend Dolly. They spilled the tea about celebrities and had a flocking good time! 🤭🤫

05/15/2026

Today Bertie and Dolly spilled the tea on some celebrity gossip!
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Dolly: Bertie… did you hear who unfollowed who this week?

Bertie: Honey, I can barely keep up with my own flock drama, let alone celebrity nonsense. Who is it now?

Dolly: Apparently two pop stars broke up, got back together, and broke up again… all before lunch yesterday.

Bertie: Efficient. I respect the commitment to chaos.

Dolly: And somebody wore a dress made entirely of crystals to an awards show.

Bertie: In THIS economy?

Dolly: Exactly what I said! Meanwhile I’m over here reusing the same sunhat from Easter.

Bertie: That’s called being financially responsible, Dolly. Celebrities wouldn’t understand.

Dolly: Oh! And there’s rumors one actor secretly hates another actor.

Bertie: Well now that’s believable. I secretly hate Gary from down the pond.

Dolly: Gary knows what he did.

Bertie: He stole my biscuit at the church picnic in 2022 and I never forgot it.

Dolly: As you shouldn’t.

(both sip sweet tea dramatically)

Dolly: Honestly though, celebrity life seems exhausting. Cameras everywhere. Reporters asking questions. Folks analyzing every little thing.

Bertie: Couldn’t be me. If somebody photographed me eating cornbread at midnight, I’d simply pass away.

Dolly: Bertie… you ate six biscuits at Thanksgiving.

Bertie: And I’d do it again.

Dolly: You know what really gets me? Celebrities saying, “We’re just taking time to focus on ourselves.”

Bertie: That usually means somebody got caught acting foolish.

Dolly: Mhm. Translation: “The group chat leaked.”

Bertie: Dolly, pour me another glass. This tea is hotter than the pavement in July.

Dolly: Already ahead of you, sister.

Dolly: Bertie… the celebrity world is WORKING overtime this week.

Bertie: I knew it the second I opened my phone and saw seventeen people arguing about the Met Gala before breakfast.

Dolly: Speaking of that — everybody is still talking about who skipped the Met Gala this year.

Bertie: Missing the Met Gala is the modern version of leaving church early. Folks NOTICE.

Dolly: And apparently everybody’s obsessed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce again because wedding rumors are flying all over the place.

Bertie: Honey, according to the internet, they’re either secretly married, planning a royal-level wedding, or hiding in London eating appetizers.

Dolly: Actually… the London date night DID happen. Fancy dinner, theater trip, celebrity party afterward — the whole thing.

Bertie: Meanwhile my idea of romance is somebody bringing me mozzarella sticks without asking.

Dolly: Same.

05/04/2026

Gertie and I made back to the roost today, our wings are exhausted! We may have been unplugged for 30 days but we were keeping busy. Here are some pics of our latest adventure at the homestead perch!