So Many Babies

 We had a brood of ducks hatch this week. We've had three ducks on a nest for the past month, and we never could get a count on how many eggs they had under them. Monday morning we found three sitting on mom's back, and by Tuesday one of the mother ducks brought 18 babies out of the coop. Over the next few days, the numbers went up and down. We had as many as 22, but last count before this update we had 16. We blame hawks and raccoons. We found hawk feathers around the ponds, and "the boy" saw two raccoons down by the pond hunting the littles. Lawman says he can fix the raccoon problem, the law frowns on shooting hawks.

The DT's are fascinated by the baby ducks. Lawman thinks they want to eat them, Cupcake thinks they want to protect them. Either way, the ducks have their attention.

The week has pretty much been geared toward little birds. We did a little work in the gardens this week, it's been dry so we've been beating down the weeds. Lawman changed the oil in the 4 wheeler. And there was some food.

On steak and tater night we added a 'surf' to our dinner with some leftover salmon. Cupcake made her soon to be world famous salmon cakes.

We whipped them up on the Blackstone.

Another favorite this week, Cupcake requested fried squash. And what Cupcake wants, Cupcake gets.

It was store bought squash, but it's better than no fried squash at all.

We ended the week with a couple naps, and chicken wings.

K&K