Kitty and the Killer Goose

I am working from home today.  The Kitten is sick.  Not the ideal situation due to the weather, my office has air conditioning and my house does not.  Boo!  Anywhooo...this morning it was much cooler out on the porch so I grabbed my Monster Rehab (a new fave: Tea and Lemonade with Energy), my laptop and some paperwork to start my day of work.  Seems like a nice lil morning, right?  Yah...nooo!  As a lot of you know I live on a lake.  In the early mornings my backyard is loaded with geese, ducks, birds of all sorts, squirrels and what ever other critter decides to come out for a stroll and breakfast.  Usually, I am inside getting ready for the day or on my way into the office.  Soooo....as I am sitting doing a little data entry and returning emails (oh I was on a confrence call as well)...a goose decides to leave the gaggle...wait...what is a group of geese called???  Shit, I cant remember...Anyways...a goose decides to get all "ballsy" and come at me looking for food I thought at first.  So I moved quickly to try and shooo it away.  That didnt work.  It got with in a few feet of me so I grabbed the watering pitcher that was next my lawn chair and threw water at it to scare it.  Duh!  Geese like water.  It stood there, stared at me like, "What the fuck is your problem lady" and started to walk closer to me.  Once it was with my reach I decided to retreat.  It is now standing on my deck and mean mugging me like a mother fucker.  What an asshole.  I just want to have my day go smoothly!  Good thing my conference call was on mute or the other managers in the company would have heard some serious shit from me...If a goose comes at you and you fight back is it animal cruelty?  I dont want hurt it but it's fight or flight.  So far...I am choosing flight.  The Mothership said to ask Darth Father for a 2x4 next time I visit.  With my luck a neighbor would report me and I would end up having to work from jail.  I wonder if jail has wi-fi?