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The Great Goose Migration

2014-03-21 · story · Hank, Katherine Green, Jacob, Courtney · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, guest or collab

Hank's travel diary of a trip with Katherine to Freezeout Lake, Montana, via friends' farm, to see the spring snow goose migration, which they find just as they are about to give up.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Leaving town with Katherine; the John Denver song he 'decided not to sing'

  • ★★ Hank tells John he is leaving town and is excited to get away. — 00:00:00

00:00:37 — In the car: Cecil Baldwin narration; the plan to drive 150 miles to Freezeout Lake for the snow geese

  • ★★ Hank and Katherine drive about 150 miles to Freezeout Lake. — 00:00:48 · Katherine Green
  • ★★★ Hank says every year hundreds of thousands of snow geese, swans and other waterfowl stop at Freezeout Lake as it thaws, to fatten up on harvested barley fields. — 00:00:55

00:01:05 — Jacob and Courtney's farm on the Rocky Mountain Front: the garlic trick, daylight saving time

  • ★★ On the way they stop at the farm of their friends Jacob and Courtney on the Rocky Mountain Front, which Hank describes as the land before the Rockies, mostly corn and wheat. — 00:01:05
  • ★ Jacob shows Hank a garlic trick; Hank says it does not work with store-bought garlic. — 00:01:52
  • ★★ Hank says he hates daylight saving time, finds it ridiculous and thinks it should never be done. (hedged) — 00:02:09
  • ★ Hank says daylight saving time was created for farmers. — 00:02:13
    • check: for farmers — doubtful
  • ★★ Jacob: Asked by Hank, farmer Jacob says he does not like daylight saving time. — 00:02:17
  • ★ Courtney adds that daylight saving time is hell on babies. (playful) — 00:02:18

00:02:26 — Next morning at the lake: no geese, lost on back roads, then the geese right ahead

  • ★★ Arriving early the next morning, they find plenty of waterfowl but no geese; it is early in the season and they fear the geese are gone or not yet arrived. — 00:02:41
  • ★★★ Lost on back roads through a horse pasture, Hank had nearly given up on the migration when they came upon the geese right ahead of them. — 00:02:58

00:03:18 — Snow geese footage with music; 'Katherine just died. Of happy.'

In the description and comments

  • ★ Hank finds it very strange that so much wonderful music in the world will never be heard again, just lost forever, like the unreleased Leewards song in the video that only a few dozen people had heard. — video description

Humor (significant)

  • After the refrain of 'Country Roads' is sung in the car as they leave town — 00:00:22

    “There's like a John Denver song about Montana and I decided not to sing it.”

  • Two farmers dislike daylight saving time, supposedly created for farmers, and Courtney says it's hell on babies — 00:02:20

    “I think we should just take this tape to Congress.”

  • Voice-over before the dawn trip to the lake, twisting the proverb about the early bird — 00:02:26

    “The early bird catches the geese as they say.”

  • The geese finally appear right ahead of them after Hank had given up — 00:03:28

    “Katherine just died.”

Threads in this video

Mentioned

Central: bird migration · Freezeout Lake · Katherine Green · snow goose

Also: People: Cecil Baldwin · Courtney · Jacob

Works: Take Me Home, Country Roads

Organizations: United States Congress

Concepts: daylight saving time

Places: Montana · Rocky Mountain Front · Rocky Mountains

Only in the description or credits: John Denver · The Leewards

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