Ducklings
sastyk | March 28, 2010Chores sounds like such a dreary word, and until I moved to a farm, I would never have believed that I'd have anything positive to say about it. As a kid, I did chores around the house, and while I may have groused less about the dishes and cleaning gutters as an adult, I certainly didn't (and don't) love the jobs.
But on a farm, chores are something else - they are bookends to each day, a formal structure like the forms of a sonnet or musical scales that shape the day. They can be speeded up, slowed down, slightly elided and occasionally contracted out, but for the most part, they are…
sastyk | March 3, 2010
It has been an exciting morning - and it isn't even 10 o clock. Today was the day to pick up our new buck goat, Ring Bearer (again, not responsible for his name). For those of you who have never had the pleasure of having a buck goat, or do have buck goats, but own pickup trucks or other more sensible farm vehicles than our ancient Ford Taurus, you may not be famliar with the way a buck goat smells in close quarters.
This time of year, it isn't that bad, but there is a definite musk. This muskiness makes said goat sexually irresistable to all ladies of the goat persuasion, but let's…
grrlscientist | May 26, 2009tags: duckling rescue, birds, cute, streaming video
Bankers have a bad (although, deserved) rap these days, don't they? This BBC video shows banker Joel Armstrong of Spokane, Washington, who was nice enough to initiate an intensive bailout (eviction?) of his neighbors, who could no longer stay in their home. His neighbors: a family of mallards [1:10]
Yes, he did the same thing last year, so the video and the story, which is fresh, might look familiar.
cwilcox | January 12, 2009Hee hee! I am such a sucker for baby animals... Especially duck-ducks! ( ;> to Barry)
c/o http://www.dailymail.co.uk last year (click picture to link to story)
These little tykes were somehow swept away from their mother and were facing a terrible death at sea, until, lucky for them, a passing canoeist spotted them, picked them up, and brought them home to nurse back to health.