Busy weekend here! (Too busy here to blog, apparently.) Hope you are all enjoying sunshine wherever you garden. And look what the ducks learned to do:
Please excuse the poor photo quality, as it was taken through a window.
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Wendell Berry:
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it."
--from an essay in "The Long-Legged House""The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness."
"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."
--both the above are from essays in "The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays"Is this so hard to believe?
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fast grow the weeds 
wanted to say “looks like they took to that like a duck to water” but no, no – I’ll restrain myself.
I didn’t say it, I just said I wanted to.
Gee, they’re getting big awfully fast, aren’t they?
ahhhh yes……..the little blue wading pools! lol
we have three back near the poultry pens. we
also have a pond at the front of the property and
one at the back, but the ducks and geese prefer
the dadgum wading pools!
It’s the clothes line pole thingies I’m wanting.
Cutie Ducks. Good you are having a productive weekend.
Hayden, funny thing but they really were scared of the big blue blob. They had quite a bit of fun in their water bowl though until they got over their fear!
Artemisia: they put the meat chickens to shame, they grow so fast! Next year, different duckies for us. They are still quite cute though.
Jayedee, yep; we have two now, the second one is just waiting for the goslings to get big too. Hey: do you keep your ducks and geese together? This might be something we have to do as the ducks are such pigs.
Alecto: Yep. Kooky country house complete with clothespole thingy. And as you can see even with 75′ of line I needed the umbrella clothesline too.
Verde, thanks! Lots of visitors and eating. Too much of the latter, actually. Gotta love holidays.
they free range the property and are never together except during feeding times. they pretty much ignore one another, even when they’re out on the ponds.