Yours truly has been out-of-pocket for several days critter-sitting for close friends. What's dat mean? Well, making sure that 10 little runner ducks, 3 bantam chicks, 5 huge roosters, 7 hens, 4 cats, Momma Chickie and little chickie, and an amazing Collie (Kara) are well-tended too while the human parents/kids are off to college graduation ceremonies. Oh, and there's the 4 HUGE geese eggs that needed periodic turning in the incubator (kind of a very very very slow crockpot)... delightful chaos!
But, mid-May is "action time" around here... new plots to be dug, plots to be re-vitalized, and tons of plants that have been started under lights and now hardened outside are begging to be put into the ground. May/June is a serious period for the hard-core gardener in this zone. So, back home, still decompressing and dealing with said plant kingdom activities, I decided to dispense with the recently usual fat/salt/sugar screeds/rants/wails (don't think I missed the 1/2 cup of tamari in a 4 serving vegan soup recipe... arrggghhhh... sodium saturation), and post 4 of the over 300 pix/videos of the baby runner ducks ("peepers") and other life forms I shot and have yet to process/post.
Looking at these critters warms even my sardonic heart these days. May they invite a smile to yours, too!
(Click on each to get a large full-sized version in a pop-up window. You may need to re-enable "pop-ups" on some browsers. Here's a video I posted on YouTube of 30-day old Runner Ducks a few years ago... some of the comments are quite funny)
All 4 pictures (small and large) ©2009 by SoulVeggie Please do NOT use or pass around (especially that first photo(!) without appropriate attribution, i.e., this webpage.
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