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First Big Outing
The ducks are getting tired of spending their days in the bathtub so I decided to take them on an outing. I got a huge Tupperware storage bin and filled it with water, put some rocks around the edge so they could get in and out, then brought them out in their traveling wine box…
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Brothers…Finally
I’m so proud of our boys. Auggie has really become a good big brother. For those of us who know our household, we got Finnegan February 4, 2010 (on Auggie’s birthday). The first day I brought him home, Auggie beat the snot out of him. Since then, I have kept the separated. Finn is just…
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The Ducklings are Here…The Ducklings are Here!
Peep peep peep! We now have five ducklings that were born Sunday February 27-hatched out as part of a little girl’s science fair project. There are three Indian Runner ducks and two Mallards. I have the babies in the guest bathtub, lined with newspapers. So far, they mostly just peep, eat and poop. Besides the regular…
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Visitors…
While working in my office today, I spotted some old visitors across the road. It was Lady and Dodger, the two “strays” we found in January, wandering down the street. Our street is fairly busy, so I called them up the drive (they came running and remembered me!) and brought them in the fence until…
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The Sky is Falling!
Things are falling around here today… Earlier this afternoon, I noticed that the light cover in our laundry room seemed to be falling. Apparently the cover to our giant fluorescent light is plastic…but of course me thinking it was glass I went into panic mode. I grabbed the step stool and proceeded to break it…