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For all those that think it's cruel to keep a lone duck, I have news for you. One size does NOT fit all.
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She's been swimming with them for over an hour. See the black tub over at the top left corner? That's plain fresh water for her to wash off in, after being in the pool. The brownish stuff on the deck is not pooh. It's the dirt that washed through the top of the screens, when Elsa hit. I just haven't washed it down yet.
 
She (the duck) hasn't decided if she's just taking a short break, or if she's going to dry off now. Yes, she has a chair at the patio table. She sits on it, and we pull it next to us, so she's level with us when we're sitting out there. That way we can pet her, and talk to her. Yes, she loves to be petted. IF we worked, or didn't spend a lot of time with her, I'd say it was cruel. As it is, she gets lots of love, attention, and care.
 
@CSolis, are you sure your endocrinologist doesn't know my first rheumatologist? What a cluster er you know. Glad you got it figured out and I sincerely hope that you don't have to wait an outrageous amount of time due to their error.

Well it's been one of those days here. Went to dump offerings from the chicken coop around a tree that needed fertilizing and noticed that my peach tree had a broken limb on it. Thought maybe it was taken in one of those storms we had. Nope. Got closer, it is a big limb along with sever other smaller. Plus about 80% of the small crop I was looking forward to was on the ground. They weren't even half ripe. Yep, raccoon did the damage. Looks like it broke the limbs to get to the peaches, chewed the small areas that were ripe off of them and discarded the green.

Needless to say made me royally pissed. I could tolerate the the loss of the crop but the tree is badly damaged and I am not sure it will survive. I've been babying it since it was a just a twig. It was an Alberta freestone that I got for free when we purchased the trees in our orchard from Stark Bros. For two years I didn't think it was going to survive. Then prune, let it alone, prune, let it alone. Pretty much bummed me out for the rest of the afternoon.

Mr Raccoon is going to wherever raccoons go when I cant it. In the meantime DH is constructing an electric fence to go around the orchard. Looks like they are starting to hit the apple trees too.
 
Quacker Sparkles doesn't go in the pool everyday. Some days she prefers her smaller tub. Especially if the kids are too rambunctious in the pool, which is often. I'll shock the pool (superchlorinate to disinfect) tomorrow, so she won't be allowed in it. When the chlorine level drops back down the following day, she can go in if she wants. I shock the pool at least weekly, and sometimes every 4 days, if she's been in it a lot. With all the rain we've had, the chlorine level is on the low side, which is another reason I need to shock it tomorrow. The filters are cleaned on a regular basis too. Don't worry. I'm not going to let my sweet duck catch anything from those nasty grands. :lau
 
If you look behind the duck, on the bottom of the pool, that blue thing is an octopus done in tiles. See the crabs on the bench on the left? On the other side there are various fish, including a Nemo fish.

When the youngest grand started swimming (with floaties) she saw the crabs, and fish. She was delighted with them. Apparently she never noticed the octopus. The following year, when she was about to jump in one day, she spied the octopus. She was NOT going in there, if that thing was in there. We had a dickens of a time convincing her it did not just show up, that it had been there the whole time. Not only that, but we had to convince her it wouldn't try to get her. It took a couple days of her watching her brother, and sister swim over it, and they survived. She finally dared to go on the bench, where the crabs are. She spent 3 days hanging out there. Finally, she was confident that it wouldn't hurt her, and started swimming around it. Kids!
 

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