100 Posts in 100 Days: Day 76
Mar. 15th, 2012 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zolaStill another long day, but I did a lot of laughing despite that.
The first funny thing was my neighbor's duck, who has been dubbed "Nipper". Not that she really nips or anything, but that's what she's called.
So I don't know if you know anything about ducks, but they produce a natural wax that they distribute on their feathers to keep them clean and waterproofed, and of course while they preen, they get some of this waxy coating on their beaks.
Nipper is molting now, and preening a lot to get rid of the loose feathers, and because of the waxy coating on her bill, she occasionally gets feathers stuck on it.
Needless to say, this looks pretty funny, and today took the cake because she had a down feather stuck dead center on her beak, and she was going cross-eyed trying to look at it! It's a shame she doesn't care to be handled, we would have taken care of that little problem for her, although now that we've made her that little duck pond, she's able to get her beak clean a lot faster.
Later on, Ben went to the store to pick up some milk. It had been threatening rain nearly all day, and it was actually clearing up so he wanted to get out while the getting was good. He had been gone for about a half an hour when I heard a rumble. A moment later, I heard another. I thought "Poor Ben! I hope he threw the umbrella into his backpack!" and I went out to see if any of the cats wanted in.
To my surprise, there was no storm visible. Then the sound came again, and I realized that it was my neighbor at the bottom of the hill--he apparently had intended to mow the lawn, and his ride-on had died. The rumbling was from his repeated attempts to re-start it! I think he's going to need a new mower, it spent more time in the shop than on the lawn last year, and I don't think he's going to be able to coax it along for one more season.
My insistence on quitting at nine last night really helped my state of mind, so I intend to do that again tonight. Now back to work to see if I can finish a few more odds and ends!
The first funny thing was my neighbor's duck, who has been dubbed "Nipper". Not that she really nips or anything, but that's what she's called.
So I don't know if you know anything about ducks, but they produce a natural wax that they distribute on their feathers to keep them clean and waterproofed, and of course while they preen, they get some of this waxy coating on their beaks.
Nipper is molting now, and preening a lot to get rid of the loose feathers, and because of the waxy coating on her bill, she occasionally gets feathers stuck on it.
Needless to say, this looks pretty funny, and today took the cake because she had a down feather stuck dead center on her beak, and she was going cross-eyed trying to look at it! It's a shame she doesn't care to be handled, we would have taken care of that little problem for her, although now that we've made her that little duck pond, she's able to get her beak clean a lot faster.
Later on, Ben went to the store to pick up some milk. It had been threatening rain nearly all day, and it was actually clearing up so he wanted to get out while the getting was good. He had been gone for about a half an hour when I heard a rumble. A moment later, I heard another. I thought "Poor Ben! I hope he threw the umbrella into his backpack!" and I went out to see if any of the cats wanted in.
To my surprise, there was no storm visible. Then the sound came again, and I realized that it was my neighbor at the bottom of the hill--he apparently had intended to mow the lawn, and his ride-on had died. The rumbling was from his repeated attempts to re-start it! I think he's going to need a new mower, it spent more time in the shop than on the lawn last year, and I don't think he's going to be able to coax it along for one more season.
My insistence on quitting at nine last night really helped my state of mind, so I intend to do that again tonight. Now back to work to see if I can finish a few more odds and ends!
