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Duck Blogging

Saturday Night Respite: Ducks and Pup

by TaMara (HFG)|  February 13, 202111:12 pm| 38 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Duck Blogging, Pet Blogging, Something Good Open Thread, I Will Cut You If You Muddy This Thread

I thought it would be good to try and end the day on a good note. For those who missed it…the ducks have taken over my bathroom and I promised you a photo:

Saturday Night Respite: Ducks and Pups

 

BTW, between the pig last weekend and the ducks this weekend, I am definitely team, “some animals need to live outside.”

And here is bonus Bixby. I accidentally threw one of their soccer balls over the fence when I was playing with Scout the other day. I felt bad, so I bought a new soccer ball and Bixby promptly did what he does, deflate it.

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Respite Open Thread: Kamala and Doug Sunday Morning Interview

by TaMara (HFG)|  January 17, 202112:21 pm| 72 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Duck Blogging, Nature & Respite, Something Good Open Thread

Vice-President Elect and soon to be Second Gentleman:

Enjoyed every bit of this while drinking my morning coffee.

Just Some Fuckhead sent along some cute kittehs, Monkey and Jumbo, that I’m happy to share:

Respite Open Thread: Kamala and Doug Sunday Morning Interview

 

And here are some winter ducks for you. Unlike those crazy Vermont ducks who run inside at the first sign of snow, mine love snow. I often have to shovel a path so they aren’t up to their little eyes in snow, but they do love it. I also shovel out the area under the bushes so they have somewhere to warm their feet.

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So This Is Christmas

by TaMara (HFG)|  December 25, 202010:56 am| 186 Comments

This post is in: Duck Blogging, Something Good Open Thread

This morning, this beautiful quilt arrived in my inbox from kattails:

Well This Is Christmas

The Christmas quilt I finally finished a couple of weeks ago.  The piecing was done by at least four different women, there are four names in the seam allowances on back.  Two were dated: 1989 and 1997.  I “inherited” the quilt top when a neighbor’s mother passed away, lots of stuff given away.  The top had been put together.

Quilters will notice quite a bit of “fussy cutting”  where a specific section of a printed pattern was carefully cut to repeat within the star. I’m NOT a quilter, but my own Mom just goes nuts decorating.

This year I finally put the batting and backing together, tied it, and sent it off.  Same fabric passed around for years, used in such different ways. I suspect they ran out of the dominant green border at the very end, because the upper right star contains a more recent fabric. The front: (it’s lap size, about 50 x 65”)

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A closeup of the back of one of the most intricate squares, the feather star, center right in the first photo.

Going to be a quiet day here. Holiday movies, standing rib roast, writing Christmas cards, and hopefully staying offline most of the day. I’ll be so glad to see the backend of 2020….as I’m sure you all are.

Here’s a cute duck photo for you. It’s been too cold to fill their big pool, though I manage to fill the small one, but Maddie seems to prefer her water dish. Silly duck.

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What are y’all up to?

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Open Thread: Hamilton Cast Getting Out The Vote

by TaMara (HFG)|  October 17, 20206:52 pm| 99 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Biden-Harris 2020, Duck Blogging, Early Voting 2020, Open Threads, Right to Vote, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It

So we just got a disturbing alert from the city:

Longmont Fire, Police and Community Health and Resilience Longmont residents: if you received an evacuation order they are removing residents from west of 75th, east of Hwy 36, south of Hwy 66, and north of Neva Road.

We are fine – except for air quality, this is about a mile two miles, I just saw the map, outside of town on the west. But we do have an evacuation plan, including the ducks, if the air gets too bad. You can about chew the air right now.

Speaking of the ducks, my duck sitter is the best:

 

@cressiemae##ducktales ##duckfriends ##ducky ##duckcrossing ##animalsdoingthings♬ DuckTales Theme Song – Kids Pups Superstars & Various Artists

She’s a professional dancer, check out her other videos if you need some beauty today.

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Monday Evening Respite Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  September 14, 20205:19 pm| 76 Comments

This post is in: Duck Blogging, Nature & Respite

From what little I know of ducks, they’re also an ‘organic replacment’ for chemical fertilizers…

Farmers in Thailand are seen herding hundreds of ducks between rice fields. The ducks root out weeds, guard against pests in rice paddy fields and act as an organic replacement for pesticides pic.twitter.com/cJwV4Glm4a

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 11, 2020

Speaking of which, props for carrying that ‘poop pad’, Duck Companion!

My Pet Duck. Only in New York. pic.twitter.com/MdiN9QgrPg

— gregarious (@mistergeezy) September 11, 2020

(h/t commentor Sister Golden Bear)
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Bonus musical accompaniment:

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Respite Open Thread: You Do The Crime

by TaMara (HFG)|  August 22, 202012:09 pm| 79 Comments

This post is in: Duck Blogging, Nature & Respite, Pet Blogging, Something Good Open Thread, I Will Cut You If You Muddy This Thread

I TOLD you ducks were shady.

So, of course, this came across my FB feed yesterday:

Respite Open Thread: You Do The Crime

This guy is my new hero:

Mark Luther: For everyone inquiring, these two fellas, now named Denzil and Beau, were owner surrenders that were being rehomed to Oinking Acres Farm Sanctuary here in Indiana by a couple that recognized they were not equipped to care for them properly! With the owner unable to self-transport, I volunteered to go and pick them up! However, they were Jumbo Pekins (size of a Goose), and they wouldn’t fit in any carrier! So we got crafty and made a box seat for to keep them contained for the drive!

https://www.facebook.com/oinkingacres/

Seems he does this tranport a LOT:

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Oinking Acres Farm Rescue doing their best to rescue and educate:

More ducks!!! I got a call today about 3 ducks in need of rescue. We quickly arranged transportation, huge thanks to my friend Mark! He is becoming quite the expert in duck wrangling 🤩 We definitely need more kind hearted, selfless people like Mark in the world.

These big babies were rescued off a neighborhood pond. Domestic ducks CANNOT fly. They are NOT a wild animal. They cannot survive on their own. Please please please stop dumping your ducks!! These guys were lucky enough to have been rescued before they were mauled or eaten by a wild animal.

Another big thank you to my friend Mark who has been transporting ducks for the third night in a row 😂😂🌟🦆

Book ’em, Daffy!

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Late Night ‘Keep the Happy Thoughts’ Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  August 11, 202011:43 pm| 70 Comments

This post is in: Duck Blogging, Something Good Open Thread

Of course TaMara has seen this already, but…

So I added the Imperial March to this video and I don't know if I'll ever sleep again.??

??: Imgur user papemaker pic.twitter.com/Vh7vBUDSwi

— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 7, 2020

Betty bait!

I don't normally post political tweets but this is very important. ??

??: Imgur user anlyin pic.twitter.com/On9d2D96iY

— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 9, 2020

Mystery Pianoman revealed! John Capron, 23, is studying Architecture at a college he’d rather not name #wcvb live at 4:30p & 6p. He shared his musical gifts & gets a gift. Plus the collectibles in this place are kool #piano #antiques #remarkablecleanout pic.twitter.com/aHy1iyjaK1

— Rhondella Richardson (@wcvbrhondella) July 15, 2020

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And the Washington Post wrote up a happy Bahstin-area story…

John Capron’s mother died when he was 7, and he spent eight years moving from one foster home to the next in the greater Boston area.

Capron had a difficult time connecting with his new foster families, he said. He finally walked away from his last foster home, spent some time living on the streets and ended up at a sanctuary for homeless teens, where he fell in love — with music.

When a counselor showed Capron how to play the song “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” by Journey on the center’s upright piano, “something just clicked,” he said…

Fast forward to last month, when Capron, now 23 and living in his own apartment, spotted an old piano sitting outside an estate sale clearance store in Norwood, Mass. He asked a salesperson if he could play his favorite Journey tune.

“When I see a piano, I can’t help wanting to play it,” he said.

He sat down, masked, and played a heartfelt rendition of Journey’s 1981 arena rock song he had learned as a teen…

Dozens of people on Facebook were impressed by Capron’s performance and wondered who the mystery player was, while others were so taken with his impromptu song, they offered to buy the piano for Capron and deliver it to him.

When store owner Mark Waters saw the video and comments, he decided he could do better than that. A 1964 upright Steinway worth $6,000 had recently ended up in his shop, and it was in more pristine condition than the piano Capron had played…

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