april showers?

for a long time the nursery rhyme

'april showers bring may flowers'

seemed to me to be wrong
april most often was a lot dryer then may
apparently not this year
as we have been getting rain

hopefully not like last year when the basement and duck pens flooded
(although the ducks at first were delighted with the water fall, lake and rushing river through their pens........... no so much after a week of it)


i got snow peas and lettuces all sprouted
and am about to put in the peas and beans out in the garden
could it BE i got a sorta early/late start?

yesterday was a grazing day
as the duckies were out a LOT
it was nice
everything and everyone was out
bugs too
but i sat on a chair on the driveway while the duckies grazed and bathed
this time lillianna was the last out of the pond
phoebe didn't bath much but got her feet wet
cleo was in and out

i let falstaff out to see if we could 'all just get along'

no
cleo.......( CLEO????????????? who'dda thunk~!)
attacked him!
she got on his back and beat the tar out of him
here is this HUGE drake
and this tiny duck
and she's got him by the neck and is clawing at him and jumping on his back and chasing him all over

i think she hurt her leg again
so i put him up and took her to the back pen

i named that one right i think

meanwhile lillianna bathed

that is going to be one seriously white duck

today it is raining....which means ( to a duckie) WORMS!!!!!!!
our little lil is a very avid worm hunter
she scoots around purposefully and gets MOST of the worms
the others sorta try but lil gets there first

on rainy days the worms are out all over and the girls scarf them up

it is amazing how those sharp little blue eyes of theirs distinguishes a worm from a twig
amazing

now in cat news
i got an email that the FURMINATOR is to be delivered on the 4th
fawn will be lightened of her heavy coat by evening i think

thaddeaus is mourning the loss of his woodstove, as it looks like it's over for another season
poor boy is sitting crouched by the hearth pitifully
poor little guy

and we are getting closer to pullets turning to real laying hens
i think about two more weeks
i have to clean their pen
i think this weekend
i did the duckies last night
i want to do falstaff this weekend too
the big girl chickens don't need to be done as they are still pretty clean (almost spotless actually)

gee i long for an outdoor chicken coop and secure duck coop

i think i am going to do a couple of moveable tractors for these guys with poultry netting and a solid area
just for the day
one needs to be pretty enough for the front lawn i think

although we have decided to put up privacy fencing
then they can be out there
if we'd had it in place already i may have considered hiding the big guys

and i am still thinking of turkey for tick control

ok
duckies calling

ttyl