Henry's Friend

Well it seems as if Pig Pen the duck is here to stay. Yes we named him Pig Pen as he loves the mud and is never completely white. I still haven't been able to get him to go into the pool. Don't figure.

Anyhow, he's lonely I guess, or he just likes dogs. Henry in particular. Henry likes him too, but I'm pretty sure Henry has other ideas than just playing like old friends. 

It never fails that when I let Henry out to do his business Pig Pen will come running, ok maybe waddling really fast up the yard to see Henry. He knows just how far the leash will go, and he will then just sit there and look at Henry. 

Pig Pen likes to mess with all the dogs, but especially Henry. Pig Pen will wait until the dogs turn around and start walking away, and then he will follow them. I think he has a death wish or something, maybe he likes to mess with me too and give me a heart attack. Anyhow once the dog gets so far, he will let out a quack and wait for the dog to turn around...and then run just past where the leash will end. I think he finds it comical to watch the dogs get whiplash. 

 Pig Pen and Henry

The other night, after I locked Pig Pen up for the night in the garden I grabbed the walking leash and hooked Henry up and walked him to the garden. He was so intent on smelling the duck smell on the ground that he didn't even realize that there was a duck standing right in front of him, separated only by some chicken wire, that is until Pig Pen charged the fence. Henry finally focused on the duck, and the two of them just stared at each other. It was intense I tell you. Neither of them moved a muscle for about two minutes. Then Henry couldn't contain himself any longer. The sound he let out resembled something between a yip and a bark. Guess it doesn't matter what the sound was, the effect had me almost on the ground rolling.  As soon as the sound left Henry, poor Pig Pen, who was in the zone and focusing on Henry almost did a back flip he was startled so badly.

Things here might settle down just a bit, but there is always little things like this that keep us off balance just enough to keep us on our feet.

Duck, Duck, Duck, There's a Duck!

So if you have been following me on Facebook or read my blog, you should know that a duck thought we would make a good family to adopt. Then again, I think it was more like, the fact that it liked the yard. 

We haven't come up with a name for this duck really. I call it Duck, Princess calls it Herbert or something like that, and Jokester calls it Quakers. I know, how original right? Superman just calls it Duck too.

Anyhow, now I have a duck that I have no idea what to do with. Not even sure if it's a boy or girl. I thought I saw a curly tail feather, but now I don't. What I do know is that it's a younger duck, I guess maybe close to a teenager type age. It acts like one that's for sure! You see it likes to tease the dogs. It knows just how long the leash is and will come waddling up just out of reach and sit there and stare the dogs down. When they get bored with trying to get the duck and turn around and walk away...it will start to follow them. They of course figure out that it's following them and will turn around and the game starts all over again. Silly duck, it needs a friend that wont eat it. 

Another thing with this with this duck is that it doesn't seem to like to swim. I got it a pool and filled it up and...nothing. It's a really big water dish. However Duck does LOVE mud. My white Pekin is black. Every chance it gets it's digging in the mud. Occasionally it will let me spray it down with the hose, but that doesn't really help. This duck needs a bath, and if I could catch it...it would get one.

Speaking of catching it, Superman managed to get it cornered in the garden. He was hunkered down like the catcher for baseball. He opened his arms wide like he was going to hug the duck, and Duck ran right into him, and knocked Superman down and waddled right over him. It was hilarious to watch, and I wish I would have gotten it on video. 

Yeah, so now I have myself a sassy duck, and sassy it is. There are days when it will listen to me and follow me, then there are days when it just wants to play tag. Back talking all the way. What I'm going to do with it, I have no idea, but I swear I will get it in the pool...eventually.      

Filled to the Brim

Wow! Let me say that again...Wow! This month has been just crazy here at the house. We have our granddaughter and her mommy visiting us for 20 days. It's been so much fun to snuggle and spoil that little girl. The family is trying its hardest to convince mom to move here, and I guess we will see in time if she likes us all enough. 

We are still in a holding pattern for the kiddies that we are trying to adopt. Waiting for the slow hands of government to move along, but that's ok because it is giving us time to get little odds and ends all ready for them. I managed to get them registered in the same school, and totally bi-passed the waiting list. Now that will be so nice having all six kids in the same school. 

Today we were adopted by another pet. It seems a Pekin duck wandered into our yard and decided it was a good place to call home. So I am scrambling to figure out just what a duck might need to make it a happy duck. So very out of my realm, I know nothing about ducks other than they quack. Yeppers, they quack. I just read how to figure out the sex, so tomorrow when it's light out I shall check out those tail feathers. Knowing me I will probably sex it wrong, cuz that's just my way. I guess I will be hunting around to find some free stuff to make a shelter for it. 

We spent a good chunk of the day trying to get the duck into my fenced in garden where it would be safer, but every time we got it close, it took off the other way. So we just left it alone, and when I got home from the store, I spotted it in the garden. Guess it's not so stupid, just stubborn. Now I hope it doesn't eat my garden all up. Well at least the watermelon, it can eat the rest of the garden if it wants to. Ya'll know what's going to happen now don't you? The little bugger is gonna just eat the watermelon and leave everything else.

A couple of funny things about the duck...One, it likes Princess. A lot. She was walking back to the house and it followed her. Three times this happened. Two, it seems to like Babygirl. Every time I have put BG out it has slowly waddled up the yard. It managed to get about 5 ft. away from BG, and then it saw me come out the door. Kinda a good thing, because BG was just lying there waiting for it to get close enough to get. She didn't budge an inch, during the whole time. I think BG likes the duck too...just on a different level. One I don't plan on seeing.

So things have been a bit crazy here. Gearing up for school which starts in a week...YEAH (big time happy dance from me)! Being claimed by a duck, and visiting peoples. Never a dull moment here, no sir, no ma'am. 

               Ducky