New Ducks Spring 2012

Our other ducks passed away the day before St. Patrick's Day due to the neighbor dogs. For some reason it's random. We had a scare a few months ago but they were able to escape. This time around they weren't as lucky. The dogs showed up on a Friday just after dad left to come into Yelm. I didn't get home until early afternoon and then I had to leave again. I didn't check to see if they were out there. We shouldn't have let them out when we were gone anyway, but that's how mom trained them. I knew eventually something would get them. Those dogs are very lucky I didn't catch them in the act, they would have holes in their heads and I wouldn't even feel bad about it. You don't let your dogs run loose in the neighborhood killing other people's animals. I wish I would have caught them. So on St. Patrick's Day, dad brought home 2 yellow baby ducks from Centralia. Mom sent me a picture of them since I was in Tacoma that day.



A few days after, I called the various Dells in the area to see when they would get their mallard ducks in. Yelm told me Thursday, Chehalis told me Wed and Tumwater told me Wed. Ok, I was going into Tumwater on Wed. Wednesday came around. I got up around 8 and headed in. I walked into the store and asked about the ducks. "Oh, they will be in tomorrow around lunch time." Crap, I came out here for nothing. They lied to me. So I decided to wait until tomorrow. When mom came home from work she called Tumwater and they got mallard's a few hours after they told me to come back the next day. And they were out. Then she called Yelm and they said they got them in that day as well during lunch and they were also out. Grrr!



The white ducks moved outside on Sunday, April 15. We had to buy a new pool for them since the other one got a hole in it.



Last Friday, April 20 after work, we had to go get some duck food at Dells. I sat in the car while she got the food, I was finishing my lunch. She comes out of the front door waving her arms around smiling. I knew what she was getting at. They had her mallard ducks. We got two of them and we're hoping one is a girl and one is a boy.