Introducing Mrs. Feddle, Duckie-Duck, Fatsykins, Buttercup, Striker, Sir Eatsalot, and Godzilla, aka Admiral Drake.
This was going to be a nice little post about our seven new family members.
And then C took E and Z to a baseball game and left me with the task of fetching the ducklings from their outdoor pen where they spend the day, put them into a box, and carry them back inside into the large Rubbermaid that is still their nighttime home.
By the time I rounded them all up (after finally giving up on keeping my work clothes clean and crawling into their shit-strewn pen), the D in "duck" had been replaced by F and an "er" added to the end of the word. With "mother" for a prefix.
Anyway, Z has been begging for a duck for months and months and months.
So I showed C a picture of a duck house, from a book that shall remain nameless, which suggested that eight full-grown ducks could live inside and be wheeled around the yard, eating bugs and fertilizing the lawn, with nary an iota of human input.
After C built the house and we informed E and Z that they were getting ducks for their birthday, I ordered a duck raising book which said, in not so many words, "Don't be fooled by charlatans and four-season gardeners who suggest that ducks are really easy to take care of. In fact, they're quite a lot more maintenance than chickens."
Call me had.
But E and Z are really, really happy.
I guess that's what it's all about, right?
In any case, say "hello" to our ducks.
Haha, thanks for the laugh this morning.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to following your adventures with them. We were going to add a few ducks to our chicken flock this spring, but upon advice from a few backyard chicken keepers decided against it.
Have fun with them, they are adorable.
Happy weekend!
Ha! I guess it was pretty funny...just not in the moment. They are pretty cute...despite being a royal pain.
DeleteThey are very cute. My kids have been wanting ducks for so long but I'm not quite sure how to go about it - we don't have a pond...
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to more posts all about yours, would love to see some up close pictures of the duck house.
Our pond has (at least one) enormous resident snapping turtle, so I don't think they'll be spending time in it. The books say they don't NEED swimming water...they just like it. We'll see how they do with a kiddie pool when they're bigger.
DeleteOh my goodness, you are hilarious. Sorry, I guess that kind of means that I am laughing at you but it is because I can just imagine if I were in your situation I'd be doing the same thing and using the same four-letter word with the same prefix!
ReplyDeleteWell, those ducks are very lucky to have such a loving home. :)
Yes, it was pretty funny...and it's even more funny watching other people go through it every night. :)
Deletelol, oh dear lol
ReplyDeleteaw, but they are cute, and the kids are smiling. as long as the kids put in the hard graft, i say it was worth it ;)
We'll see...
DeleteMy family was mentioning ducks this week. Please tell me more about the work they entail?
ReplyDeleteI will write more about the ducks soon!
DeleteHello ducks! Such charming little critters, aren't they? Which is lucky when you're muttering that "f" word and dealing with their messes. :)
ReplyDeleteJust like little kids. ;)
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