How many storks have you seen on the toll road? If you said none that would be one less than Stephenie and I. We were on the toll road last weekend and came across a stork hanging out on the side of the road. We both did a double take.
Seeing this stork got me thinking why are storks associated with new babies? Well apparently the myth of the stork swooping in with baby in tow dates back hundreds of years in Europe. Storks frequent ponds, wells and springs, people believed that babies souls resided in these places before they were born. So the myth was born. People would pray to storks for a baby boy or girl. In Germany storks were also signs of good fortune and luck.
The modern myth was popularized by Hans Christian Anderson in the 1800's. Storks would routinely nest on people's chimneys in Northern Europe. Storks have one of the closest family ties of any animal. When a stork becomes old its offspring will take care of it. This probably has something to do with the myth. Since storks nested on peoples roofs and would return every year it was a convenient explanation to little children on how a new baby was coming.
So now that Stephenie and I have seen a stork; how much long could it possibly be before Grant shows up??
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