Sunday

Its raining here at the ranch and the ducks are loving it. Well sort of loving it, I think its a new experience for them as it hadn't rained here for about 7 weeks. They stand so still and then the preen themselves. This morning I let them out really early as Tommy was penned in the duck pen rather than in with the chickens. Last night when I was putting them to bed he ran in to the duck pen to check one of the baby girls nest. He went up to check on the eggs and noticed that they were gone and sat down. It was like he's clucky over the eggs, it was rather cute. I felt bad that I took the eggs. I watched that Beaker didn't attack him and warmed Tommy that I was locking him in. I told him I'd be back early morning to let him out. When I let them out this morning I just opened the door and went back to bed. I couldn't really sleep as I had a feeling that I left the gate open to the vege patch. Sure enough when I got up 40 min later there they were having a chomp on the zucchini. I didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't really see the damage. On second thoughts, perhaps there was none if I couldn't see any.