The Quack Shack

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I know, @Miss Lydia will yawn - but i just made my 10,000's post! (This is 10,002)

 

[Canadian Wind]

LOVE how you're trying to reason with them!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

LOVE how you're trying to reason with them!

Some of them definitely regret their decisions and would love to be back in the warm and comfortable dux-house…
And i am sure that Mayhem Drake would love to come back inside and sleep under my bed, but Chaos Ducks won't let him.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I know, @Miss Lydia will yawn - but i just made my 10,000's post! (This is 10,002)

Congratulations @WannaBeHillBilly

 

[Supercow]

There is a Chinese saying for birthdays etc : Wan Sui - (may you have) "ten thousand years". So, here's to the next 10.000 posts

 

[Luv Ducks]

I assume 11 degrees means 11 Fahrenheit (-11.6°) - that is lousy cold!
The cold is supposed to arrive here this night, we had between -1° and -2° here today (28-30F) but tonight we're forecasted to drop down to -7° (19F), right now we're at -3 (27F).
There is not a single flake of ice on the pond:

I have recorded a video, the picture above is a frame from that, but i cannot upload the video because my internet is still not working, i'm using my phone as a hotspot but that's slow and expensive.
The dux are happy ducking and diving, if i can de-ice the garden hose, i will spray the whole hill-site with water on Tuesday night and turn it into a gigantic Schlitterbahn. They will all schlitter down to the duck-yard, but won't be able to walk back up the hill and have no choice but to sleep in their house.
I have already removed the snow from a path to the dux-house door to entice them to waddle into the duck-run:

Due to the wind last night, their floating island came loose and is no longer floating in the middle of the pond, but on one side. No longer predator safe. Pressure is mounting dux!

Yes Frank I was talking F in my temperature. It is only 11 degrees F here today for a high. This whole week is brutal for us but next week will be in the 40's. I thought maybe being just one state away your temps would be close to ours. Good luck with your Ducks, I pray that they stay safe.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I use a spade as my walking stick. Also useful should there be any Coyote activity…

Be sure to always carry your cell phone with you too. I am a good one to preach as I usually don't but if I have a good pocket on me I do. I am always afraid of dropping it in their water buckets. My coworker dropped a huge heavy hay bale on himself and had to crawl from the barn to the house to get help. He learned the hard way to to take the phone with him.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Hah! - I bet the whole holler is now mad at me, for using my mobile internet connection to upload a video...
Here are the dux at the pond, late this afternoon:

I loved your video of them Frank. Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Snowy greetings from Big Chimney!

We had about 10cm of snow here over night, undoing all of yesterday's work, cleaning a pathway into the dux house. The dux were completely mad this noon, hangry and mad. Once they finally made it down here, they ate like bucket-wheel-excavators, two bowls of pellets, scratch-grain, corn,catfish-feed and catfood gone in under a minute.
Then they all ran back to the pond… ten steps, retract landing gear to warm up, ten steps, retract landing gear to warm up, ten steps, retract landing gear to warm up, ten steps, retract landing gear to warm up …

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Yes Frank I was talking F in my temperature. It is only 11 degrees F here today for a high. This whole week is brutal for us but next week will be in the 40's. I thought maybe being just one state away your temps would be close to ours. Good luck with your Ducks, I pray that they stay safe.

Thank you very much! You stay warm this week! Your duckies too. And everybody else stay warm. - Except @Muscovy Wunda ! - You may stay colder…