The Quack Shack

[Muscovy Wunda]

Today started with a pleasant surprise: I overslept!

So i spent the rest of the day with increasing the height of Mount Stink:
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I lost track, but it has been at least six wheelbarrows of poop-soaked wood-chips… The ducks love that mountain even more than Mount WoodChip because it is full of earthworms…
I decided to create a second compost-pile near the garden, instead of piling this up behind the duck-house together with the duck's bedding. I will need that compost in the garden anyways, so why not haul it up here now and let it decompose here? Still backbreaking work, everything is wet and so heavy that i can fill up the wheelbarrow only ½.

The ducknagers had a lot of fun at the pond, especially the cheeky White Layer who conquered Mount WoodChips yesterday:
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Dang Duck! - That is my seat at the pond when i feed the Mallards and she pooped on it!

The only other thing, except for the regular duck-duty, i did today was digging out the remaining three pepper-plants from the garden and transplant them into pots:
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I watched a video on YT where some guy did that to over-winter the plants in the house and planted them back outside the next year. Now i need to find a good spot for them in the house…

Well that was my weekend.

What did you do?

I get so confused when people talk about peppers, I think the black rocks that make you sneeze. Capsicums is what we call them here. Interested to see how they go, we had a tomato plant hidden in bushes and it survived the winter, was flowering when I left home

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Happy canadian thanksgiving!! We appear to not be thankful for anything in Aust so would love to know whats on the menu!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning / evening folks

 

[Canadian Wind]

Ya have a good night! - Guess you can sleep in tomorrow: Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you!

Unfortunately not. Well, sort of. I start my new job today, just doing the paperwork. Yes, on Thanksgiving. That, and the dog was telling me that either I let him out, or he was going to pee in the bed.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Happy canadian thanksgiving!! We appear to not be thankful for anything in Aust so would love to know whats on the menu!

Thank you!

Coffee and donuts? Or rather, doughnuts! New job is at a coffee shop in town. Maybe I'll grab one of their Bacon Turkey Club sandwiches.

 

[Canadian Wind]

And Monday greetings to you all!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning / evening folks

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good Tuesday Morning and Evening All!

 

[Canadian Wind]

Tuesday Greetings to all, and to all a good Tuesday!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Happy Tuesday everybody!

I was absent again yesterday, have been thrown out of my bed early in the morning by a customer with a production-system failure… After that i decided to make sure that Monday is entirely ruined and increased the size of Mount DuckPoop by removing almost every part of the duck-run floor:

Today the remaining pooped soil under the feeder and the waterer will bring this mountain to its final height and the ducks will receive a new wood-chip floor in their run. Rinse and repeat again next fall…
The plan is to cover Mount Duckpoop with the next batch of mowed grass to protect it from the upcoming rains, so that it'll stay warm and can decompose further during the winter. I will need that soil in spring for the tomato beds.